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THE BOY and THE EAGLE":

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TOMORROW

DICKIE MOORE

WINNER OF FIVE "OSCARS"

OLIVIA de HAVILLAND

for the best performance by an actress

JOHN MEEHAN and. HARRY HORNER for the best art direction (Black & White) EMILE KURI

for the best sel direction (black & White)

CDITH HEAD and GILE STEELE

for the best costume design (black ́ & White)

AARON COPLAND

for the best musical scoring of a dramatic picture

A TRULY GREAT MOTION PICTURE!

Olivia de Havilland Montgomery Clift Ralph Richardsen

WILLIAM WYLER'S "The Heiress

MIRIAM HOPKINS - MOKA PIZZMAN - VAHESSA BROWN - SELENA ROYLE,

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I was a MALE WAR BRIDE

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1959;

CINEMA WORLD

"The Heiress" next fare at King's

Rating: ***

"The Heiress," coming to the King's Theatre, is a tender mixture of unreality and truth told in a warm and gripping fashion. It is an analysis of some of tho, emotions which'ossail a father, his unwanted' daughter and their various idolatrics. Rara direction and fine acting give it a comprehensiveness and beauty which matches the broad sweep of the story. The picture is based on an idea of Henry James', and is taken from his book entitled "Washing- ton Square." It deals with the pathetic career of a young girl who is about to inherit a for- tune which her father is anxious should not be squandered by a suitor whom he believes to be more interested in her money than her heart,

PHYLLIB CALVERT Centre of contention.

Sophisticated

romance

to the Lee

Rating:

A sophisticated romance

The plot makes 赴 departure from routine when it transpires that the heiress is resenter by her father, who regards her as a poor second of the wife he ador- ed, whose denth had served to mike more discernible the de- ficiencies of the daughter.

THE HEIRESS, FATHER, AND SUITOR

Warm and gripping.

Cary clowns in new comedy picture

Rating: ★★★

"I Was A Male War Bride," now at the Roxy

It eventually resolves itself into this interesting problem- whether the daughter's grand sacrifice at the end is worthwhile, when she rejects love which she The

can have, even though she knows: she will have to pay for it. Should ite, which the preservation of pride, always goes before a fall, be the ultimate end of once humble

girl now projected by her in- heritance into a mature woman with the brains, the riches and beauty only the death of нег father has enabled her to achieve?

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Miss Olivia de Havilland's an- swer to this riddle-told in moving sequence highlighted by her sultor's desperate banging on the door which heralds hopeless- ness, and her slow, determined climb up the stairs to her Anal solitude-makes one of the most dramatic endings ever filmed.

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and Broadway, stars Cary Grant,and Ann Sheridan in a delightful comedy that will take the heat of the day off your mind. inimitable Cory, well known for his subtle humour that spreads itself through every line he says, is this time a French liaison officer stationed in Germany. His escapades shouldn't happen to a German Dachshund, and by the time the film has run its course you'll agree with us.

Film magazine

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The June issue of "Film and Theatre News" has just come off the press.

It contains the usual number

The greater part of the Alm

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Grant, working on n mission with Ann Sheridan (his American

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Ing this G.I. bridegroom as a G.I. bride, an irksome formality in-

of pages, and on the cover velving untimely separations,

The

is a magnificent photograph of some excellent comedy, and a Eleanor Parker, the film star. female Impersonation with There are many interesting aid of a horse-tail hair-do, features, including an eye-witness: The film packs in almost every

As the heiress, Misc de Havit land, portrays the repressed, agonisingly pitiful Victorian lady with the power and understand-

Academy Award. She is Theatre with Paramount's pre. every scope to carry her great in Hollywood of Miss Elizabeth Cops, but the punch of Howard sentation of, "My Own True theatrical abilities across, but it-Taylor, the M-G-M Istar, who Hawks's direction makes Love,"

tle chance to display anything married Mt. Conrad Hilton, the laughs seem new. co-starring Phyllis else. Throughout the picture she heir to America's largest hotel Calvert and Melvyn Douglas, is draped in unbecoming clothes, fortune. and featuring Wanda Hendrix, with itle make-up, und a re- Two big films are previewed Philip Friend and Binnie Bar-markably

comes to the screen of the Leeing which earned her last veh, account of last month's marriage known gag since the Keystone

nus,

style.

unattractive

hair- in lavish double-spreads “Thei

Big Cat" an Eagle-Lion American production, and "Sword in the This la necessary to emphasise Desert", Universal-International's the topical story of the iritish-

terraination of the mandate.

Based on the Yolanda Foldes the drab personality of novel, "Make You a Fine Wife," heiress, who is able to love mad-Jewish clash in Palestine before "My Own True Love," tells a ly but who is, incapable of being gripping story of a romance that loved in return-neither by her goes on the rocks when the man's father nor any other young man, son falls in love with his fiancee, for her lack of taste, style

charm.

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There are the usual prize con- tests, the "Lucky Quiz" and the and contest for "I'cen-Agcrs,' in which monetary Towards and Miss Calvert, attractive British

Sir Ralph Richardson, in the complimentary tickets for cinenia $1.00- star who has

are offered. been seen

American In first picture of his

Miss Diana Drake discusses contract, is every inch the stern few selected problenis in hei "Madonna of the Seven Moons,' "The Man in Grey," and other Victorian father who is assailed column, and there films, plays the woman loved by by a strange inclination to idoilse letters answered by the

Editor father and son. She gives an out-the image of his dead wife at the in his page on questions about expense of the daughter who la standing performance as the cen-live. He does not hate Miss de Hollywood and the stars. tre of contention between the Havilland he gives no such im-

two men, one of whom she loves in return. For the other she has only compassion.

Douglas portrays the father whose love Phyllis reciprocates fully and sincerely. But then the son, wounded and embittered, re- turns from the war after having been belleved lost, and the older

his mistakes

flancee's sympathy and kindness for romantic interest. The three-eor nered problem is eventually worked out realistically and dra matically, after a family tragedy is narrowly averted.

man

Philip Friend, seen as the son, is the handsome English star who recently scored in Samuel Gold- wyn's "Enchantment".

pression, but his portrayal of n man who has no patience with drabness, who resents ugliness, who must have his sherry and biscuits, is a true and remarkably Intense likeness.

Mr. Montgomery Clift's per. formance as the sultor who loves for money alone is convincing His treatment and sympathetle.. of the part detracts much from the sordidness of the role, and imparts to it such a messure of justification that the barbaric na- ture of his heartlessness is almost vindicated by the possibility that he probably would have made the heiress happy nevertheless.

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The denouement is quite terrl- ble. It does not follow the book, where the heroine simply "carries Diminutive Wenda Hendrix, on with her knitting" while the last seen in "The Prince of Foxes" baffled fortune-hunter, with and "Soup of Surrender" is de- prize withlu his grasp, 'keeps on lightful as Dougins' young daughanging desperately at the door ter, who introduces her father to which is not opened. Miss Calvert in the hope that a romance would develop between them,

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In the Alm Miss de Havilland. after having asked her lover to come back for the elopement, re- jects him when he has arrived with his trunks.

The scene when Mr. Clift bangs on the door while she slowly mounts the stirs to her loft at the top of the house-sensible. of the possible chance of happiness that awaits her below but driven by an urge to assert her prido | at the precise moment when 10 is 'most questionable—is match- Icss:

In a few feet of film

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passes the eternal story of the influences which definable. mould the character of women, Which make them so unpredict able.. Women--this scene suggesta

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good, of all that? If the satertion of vengeance lends to: a lifetime of memory and greta, is it worthwhile?

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