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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1980,

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CO-SHOWING TODAY

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AT 2,30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

ONE OF THE TEN BEST, PICTURES

ONE OF THE TEN BEST' DIRECTIONS ONE OF THE TEN BEST PHOTOGRAPHYS

Dartyi F.

Zanuck prosents

SOON YOU WILL

KNOW WHY

THEY CALL HER

Punky

starring

The poignant story of a girl

IN 1949

who fell hopelessly, desperately in love!

JEANNE CRAIN ETHEL BARRYMORE ETHEL WATERS WILLIAM LUNDIGAN Produced by DARRYL F. ZANUCK - Directed by ELIA KAZAN.

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LOVE HUNTED WOMAN! A HUNTED MAN.....A

kiss ninrt Reckless, every CAUGHT!..... with moment more dangerous than the last!

every

Joan FONTAINE Burt LANCASTER KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS

Commencing

TODAY

A UNISENSDE SMTERNATIONAL PELEASE

-starring

Robert NEWTON

CINEMA WORLD

"Pinky" is a credit to Hollywood film-makers

Rating:★★★★

"Pinky,"

at

which is now the Roxy and Broadway Theatres, is without doubi 'one of the best films to come out of Hollywood since the end of the war, and a beartening sign of a more mature approach to film-making.

It achieves unusual realism and tackles the problem of the Neuru In the Southern United States. with a frankness that is astound- ing and commendable,

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There was a time not so long ngo, when a movie hind entertainment first and foremost, and hang tije message or seriousness of the plot. The re- picture sult was the "escapist"

the which, instead of "freeing" movie-goer from all the "inhibi- tions" dreamed up by our dlern psychiatrists, usually blen more discontent with his fol than ever.

mo-

left

While the production of these tong has continue-and will

h there are morons among men it is gratifying to note that Alms dealing with something serious and important are tnding Layour among audiences,

which

means

in our capitalist society they are box office" attractions and therefore not to be sneezed at; hence we can expert more of them.

"Pinky" is a serious film-one of the most serious and thought- provoking an disturbing im Hollywood has ever made.

It takes the case of Pinky, Negro girl (Jeanne Crain).

who puss

is fair-skinned enough to for a White, She has graduated

nurse

in Northern town as a and is in love with a doctor, but, afraid to tell him that her grandmother is coloured, she re- furns home to the South.

#

JEANNE CRAIN and THE BOUTH A heartening sign.

Welles' interesting 'Macbeth” at the Lee

Rating:

"Macbeth," directed and acted by Orson Welles and now at the Leo Theatro, is an unconven- tional but interesting experiment with Shokes- pearo, and therefore worth seeing.

Its unconventionality arises from Mr. Welles' treatment of one of the Master's better known tragedies. Although his interpretation of "Macbeth" may possibly not coincide with Sir Lawrence 'Olivier's; the Hollywood Wonder Boy lends his production some excellent at: mosphere to make the film version an im- pressive one.

Back in the appalling Negro quarter of her home town she is of subjected to succession

cruelties-sub- humillations and tle ones as well as the more ob- vicus kind.

Using all the tricks of the trade tions of the text and the on-again- And she suffers at the hands of her own people as as only he can, Mr. Welles suc-off-again use of a Scotch brogue. Among the outstanding scenea well as through the Whites,

ceeds in creating an excellent When an elderly. while woman mood for tragedy. His inagina-Mr. Wolles has created with the camera few will be better re- (Ethel Barrymore) is taken 1,1ive way with a camera, his use Pinky nurses her until death, and of the light and shadow contrast,membered than his recitation of

the old in gratitude

woman and of the echo of his own voice, the passage, "Tomorrow and to- against the back- leaves her her house. The make the audience forget that the morrow....

relatives then mobilise Macbeth of the screen is a shade ground of an impenetrable mist. woman's

Then, too, there is his outburst the race prejudice of the town to

more cruel and unscrupulous than try to prevent Pinky inheriting, Shakespeare meant him to be. against the witches on the eve of The court scene, in which the Mr. Welles' atinosphere, which battle on the castle wall, done to thunder case is heard, is one of the most pervades the film as it did his the accompaniment of cleverly constructed and effective Citizen Kane, plus a creditable and lightning which throw weird ever made and I am not going performance by Jeannette Nolan, shadows of crucifixes and branches

to give away its skilfully con-as Lady Macbeth, also tends to against a cold gray. realer climax.

It is enough to say that in is forgive the occasional transposi-

incompromising, attitude,

the

subtlety and understanding of

its approach, and the restraint and sensitivity of Elia Kazan's "Direction" the picture never strikes n false note.

comes

some trium-

Miss Crain, previously known to us as the bloom on pretty musicals, phantly through her test in this dramatic role. As the coloured grandmother, Ethel touchingly good, too.

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The Hubbards

are coming to the King's

Rating:★★★

If you

ever had a good time hating anyone, you can't afford to miss "Another Part of the Forest" which open next at the King's Theatre.

created

of Here are a whole Block people you can hate to your heart's delight. But while you're hating them you will be kept on the edge of your seat by this exciting post-Civil War story en- acled

uncompromising, In or straight-forward manner. Lillian Hellman first the Hubbard family for the Broad- way play and subsequent pleture, the Little Faxes." "Another Part of the Forest" brings you the same selfish, bickering family ona generation carlier. However, the family characteristics still

prevall. And they are made to stand out

Mr. Bogart takes to the air

Rating:★★★ Humphrey Bogart,

one

of

the most popular action stars in the Hollywood firmament, is now at the Queen's and Al- hambra Theatres in a made-to- "Chalu order, action story- Lightning,"

A yarn, using jet-propelled planes as a background, "Chatri Lightning" shows Bogart as a jubs and test pilot for the hot marks the first feature pleture of such proportions to let the public in on the latest thing in aviation.

Providing the love interest is Eleanor J'arker who made such a hit in "The Valee of the Turtle" two years ago.

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CHARLES CHAPLIN

in

In "Monsieur Verdoux" there is a peculiar Intensity of drum A

an even more

peculiar bysteris

of laughter..

and a strange love,

story that hurts.

MONSIEUR VERDOUX"

Apatercoal LAUGHTER?

Framsing NOMANCE

· Shocking DRAMA),

CHARLES CHAPLIN in "MONSIEUR VERDOUS" MARTHA RAYE

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14081L FISCH ROBERT LEWIS · and introducing for sha la

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Miss Parker early in the story ALSO LATEST UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL NEWSREEL

plays a Red Cross girl in Eng- jand who meets the intrepid Árny plot played by Bogort. When after the war his talents nre needed to test the fastest type of fighter plane devised by man, it is she who brings Bogey back to his first love-and how he flies them provides for grent An action.

In such a story, the talents of fand taphrey Bogart whose know him as a rough handler of women as well as men or ma- chics, are ready-made aut "Chain Lightning" is worth your

white.

Two top stage performers feature roles in "Chain Light- and Masscy ning"-Raymond Richard Whof, with Stuart Hels- ler directing.

RATINGS

The "China Mail" is using tho following classifications to indicate to readers the quality. of films reviewed:

Excellent Above average Average

★★★ **

★

Below average

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