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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1950,

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LEE Theatre

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TAKE ANY LASTGDUNO TRAM OR ROUTE NO. 5 BUB

SHOWING TODAY

Four shows at 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. Warmth And Doop Feoling Dominato This Excellent Picture !

LONDON FILMS present

EILEEN HERLIE

The Great Dramatic Actress

In Her First Starring Picture

The ANGEL with

the TRUMPET

NORMAN WOOLAND

DASIL SYDNEY

ADDED: Latest Paramount Newsreel :- First Films from Embattled Korra - Fur Fashions of Tomorrow Screen Stars Go West With Our Friend Irma, etc.

COMMENCING SUNDAY

THE STORY OF THE MOST DARING TRAIN

ROBBERY SINCE

JESSE JAMES:

"SPECIAL

AGENT"

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

STARRING

1

WILLIAM EYTHE

KING'S LIBERTY

SHOWING TODAY SPECIAL TIMES: 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 and 9.40 P.M.

Two

WO GREAT ACADEMY AWARD STARS

IN ONE OF THE FINEST

ACADEMY AWARD PICTURES

W OF ALL TIME!

DAVID O. SELZNICK"

presents

Rebecca

Directed by

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

From the giveť de BepJoe By Na

An 119 Talunya

··LAURENCE OLIVIER

Academy Award Star of "Hamlet"

JOAN FONTAINE

Academy Award Star of "Suspicion"

with

GEORGE SANDERS JUDITH ANDERSON

Produced by DAVID O. SELZNICK

Also Latest Universal-Internationals Newsreel. At; the King's Theatre.

"NEWS FROM THE FIGHTING FRONT

/ KING'S

IN KOREA”

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

at 11.30 AM. ONLY

A VARIETY

PROGRAMME Color. Cartoons G3 Stooges Comedy

LIBERTY

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

nt 11.30 A.M..

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

CINEMA WORLD

SPENCER TRACY, JAMES STEWART AND ENEMY Rubber and gold

They're all after rubber in "Malaya"

Rating:

-

Adventure --- some not too convincing providos the keynote for "Malayo," now M-G-M offor- ing at the Queen's and Alhambra, with Spencer Tracy and James Stewart playing o pair of reckless buddies in a film laid against a Far Eastern background.

Stewart plays John Royer, ex-newspaper correspon- dent who succeeds in getting U.S. government backing for a daring project to smuggle row rubber out of Japanese-occupied Malaya during the war.

He teams up with Tracy, en-, of u har neling the adventurous and tough town. Carnahan, and "The Duleliman"

(Sydney Greenstreet), proprietor

STAR

Phone 58335"

17, Hankow Road, Kowloon. July 28th, 29th. & 30th

3. Days Only

Please Note Change of Time 2.30, 5.00, 7.29 & 9.40 p.m.

"It is in a class by itself. You've got to see this magnificant film.“

***KATE SMUTH on Mutual Network Broadcast

JOAN OF ARC

' starring INGRID

BERGMAN

A VICTOR FLEMING PRODUCTION COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR

Produced by WALTER WANGER Directed by VICTOR FLEMING

Brand V DONNA PICTURES DE

FRY BEZ TABO PICTURES

SHOWING

TODAY

in a Malayan constat

Gambling their odds against those of a crafly Japanese com- mandant, Colonel Tamura, the adventurers contrive to make deals with two rubber growers to buy their hidden stockpiles of rubber.

Railway robbers at large

Rating:★★

"Special Agent.". which starts on Sunday at the Lee Theatre, is another

of those unheralded American pictures that are in many cases a lot better, than a number of their much bally-hooed big brothers.

With an almost unknown enst, the flm tells of the U.S. railway detectives who are called in when- over robbers decide to practice their profession on the innocent; passengers of a train.

in this case, the victim is a mining outfit which has $10,000 int 1ensh in the mallcoach of a California passenger-freight train. As the train chuge up a gradient and pusses out of a funnel at al- most walking speed, an explosion blasts the engine and malicoach loose from the other carriages The hold-up men make a get- cwny with the cash, and the special agents have another case. to solve.

PAUL DOUGLAS The mirror broke

Paul Douglas

has a try at singing

Rating:

an

sur-

And there begins a

tedious manhunt, Unsed on slender clucs We like Paul Douglas tre- left behind at the scene of the mendously as erime by the robbers. A piece of we also think highly of the actor, and material from a lumberjacket: n talents of Miss Celeste Holm. hunk left in the get-away car: It comes therefore as a iew grains of salt-all these are prise that the present fare at

ulde signs for the special agent on the car.

the Roxy and Broadway The 6lm follows in document- Theatres, "Everybody Does It, ary fashion the ups and downs gives thear two stars very the agent meets in solving the little to sink their teeth into. robbery and bringing the hold-up lo justice. It traces the

по The Alm has its humorous painstaking work put in which moments, and also Linda Darnell, rradually enables him to pull the who is a charming enough to Brose around the robbers after play "the other woman" with the uubite has long forgotten the great efficiency, although physi..

incident."

cally speaking, she seems to be in the midst of the bibileal seven fat years.

mich

With its sincerity and realism. "Special Agent" manages to keep the movie-goer entertained from start to finish and the actors wh

all turn in tinc priformances, are convlucing enough to merit praise.

NEWSREELS OF KOREAN WAR

What grates is the weak plot of the

Everybody Does It could easily film, barring which

have been one of the best come- dios of the year; as it is, it is enjoyable, in parts, but not ex- cellent.

These are run out by a fishing

In brief, the story tells of a flect of sampans

walting

couple (Mr. Douglas and Miss camouflaged ships that bring the

The first newsreels of the Holm) who must have been at- much-needed rubber to America. fighting in Korea, with Ameri-tracted by the law that oppostics

The plan hits

go for each other. Miss Holm be- 4 sang in the can troops in action, have ars person ΟΙ a German

lleves steadfastly that she has a rubber rived in Hong Kong. Royer.

magnificent volec, and that her The Queen's Theatre

is now place is rightly on the stage of

Faced with almost certain

grower who double-crosses th sceening the latest MGM News the Metropolitan Opera.

at the hands of the Japs, Royer Of The Day, showing recently

and cure her

and Caranhun are given a choice

Janded U.S. reinforcements mov- of continuing their

Hubby Douglas, unfortunately, dangerous ing up to the front for the bitter has a different mission or flecing for their lives. battle of Thejon. There are also spouse's talent, and it is his plan opinion of his Their decision and the ultimate shots of an American carrier in-with the aid of a surprise de consequences to

of the men action off the Korean coast, while velopment in his own vocal cords ench makes for. the story's ending. U.S. jet planes are 'shown straf--to turn the table on the Missus

There are very fow flaws in lag the North Korean

fure, with casting of this picture.

capitol. The Lee Theatre will screen singing fever that forms the most cach role filled by an actor who the latest Gaumont-British news-enjoyable part of the film. knows

his business. Tracy Is reel beginning tomorrow. This Needless to say, all's well that tent in the first all-out action against the North Koreans: 1" ends up well after a destick shows U.S. troops in ends well, and "Everybody Docs venture

re-role-he-has- tackled sone time. James Stewart gives In sharp contrast to the big through u mazc of slapstick

guns and tanks is the stream scenes.

the

excellent

of

forever

of the

a compelling performance as his knowing buddy, and Sydney of refugees, who clutter up the Despite the meagre plot Paul Greenstreet gives his

suave road and,

in many instances, Douglas turns in a fine perfor- villalay д new sympathetic twist bumper the progress the mance, while Miss Holm proves as the Dutchman.

United Nation forces.

to be a delightful comedian. A A subsidiary plot thread con-

Both newsreels-at the Queen's supporting cost headed by Char cerns the romance between Tracy and at the Lee-are worthwhile les Coburn and Millard Mitchell and a sultry native girl, effee-

secing.

does its very best to please. tively portrayed by the glamor aus Italian actress, Valentina Cortesa, watch her, she is good- and beautiful. There are other good performances by John Hodiak as an FBI agent, Lionel Barrymore as

more as a powerful news- paper publisher, and Gilbert Ro- land as a native guerilla who is devoted to Carnahan,

our

What lowers the dim in estimation a peg or two is the rather unlikely

A story of which "Malaya" is likely

the type оп based is

.

to K? over blg in America, where the knowledge of things Asiatic possessed by the average citizen probably amounts

to a bare thimble-full.

Hong Kong movie-goers will find the Malayan setting just as phoney as the uniform of the Japanese commandant.

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DI MALAYE YOU KI

'A DITA, WYN VOOR

mom's Adventure Drama

MALA

SPENCER TRACY · JAMES STEWAR VALENTINA CORTESA - SYDNEY GREENSTREET

ETRES VOOR OPRALAIS

A GUN IN MOBIL HANDŽ

1

JOHN HODLAK - LIONEL BARRYIKORE

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