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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1950.

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PRIDE OF KENTUCKY

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CINEMA WORLD

Exciting war film

now at the Roxy, Broadway Theatres

Rating:✰✰✰

A woman who asked the Duke of Wellington whe- ther English soldiers over ran away was curt- ly told: "All soldiers run away, madam.” From the day he starts his officer training every cadet has drummed into him Napoleon's re- mark: "Armies never fail through the fault of their men but always through the faults of their officers."

Bette Davis

in drama

Rating: ★

Both pronouncements come to mind in connection with "Twelve O'Clock High" another outstand- ing American war flm now at the Roxy and Broadway.

This film deals Intimately, faith- fully, and frankly with problema of war which are not normally alrod in films designed for enter- tainment.

"Beyond The Forest," What makes a leader?

Why

ALLAN LADD, WANDA HENDRIX and ENEMIES

Decently clad

Alan Ladd carries his gun again

Rating:★ ★

be undressed if he hasn't a gun in his hand, is decently clad in "Captain Coroy, USA,” which opens today at the Lee and Liberty Theatras.

which is now at the Queen's does one fighting unit do better Alan Ladd, the Hollywood actor who appears to and Alhambra Theatres, issist of exactly the same kind of than another, though both con- heavy drama that demon man? What in courage and how strates only too clearly that can it be developed and conserved?

How long can a Aghting Betle Davis is far from a

stick it? "has-been" when it comes to acting.

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Although the film is kely to leave a bad taste in your mouth. you'll probably cheer Mies Dael for her excellent perförmaneu as the bored but ambitieus wile of a small town doctor who is liter- ally consumed by her own passions.

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These are matters seldom pre- The sented to the leyman, who knows them only through the conven- the cliches of war reporting and tional jargon of medal citations, through the embarrassed silences of Aghting relatives.

It is the story of an American banker group which, after crip- pling losses in the early daylight raids on Europe, is thoroughly demoralised and practically on

Twelve O'Clock High" brings this material into the open and Lunging to escape from the without distorting the truth makes town and her husband (Josephi an uncommonly Ane dramatic en- Cotten) to a life of luxury which tertainment of It. she feels she la entitled to, Missi Davis discovers to her chagrin that the Average individual is not

much

own of his annster destiny as he thinks he is.

Miss Davis (does everything to further her, ambition; she even the verge of mutiny. resurts to murder. But it no avail, and she finds herself. swallowed up by her own chi-and a new man (Gregory Peck) is appointed to put things right. canery. The end dramatic swiftness and can only He achieves this by ruthless dis- be termed a commendable climax cipline and by sheer leadership, to a life of lechery, lust and too but only after a long and dimeult struggle. He then takes the re- ambitious aspirations.

There is very little else to com- action in the main daylight raids vitalized group into successful "Teyond The Forest"

at the climax of the war. upart from the fact that the

For the flying combat scenes fan-toed Bette heavy-lidded, Davis dominates the entire show.

meni on

with Comes

the

Their commander is replaced

film is a thrilling product of-versatile. Mit- chell Leisen, and the use of authentic back- ground scenes adds to the enjoyment. Co- starred with Mr. Ladd are Wanda Hendrix and Francis Lederer.

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The story hinges around while he was working in Italy Ladd's attempt to track down as an OSS agent during the the person who betrayed him latter part of the war.

He returns

to Italy, and his chose for the traitor gets him entangled with a lot of strange characters, He also finds that the OSS agent of the yesteryear was a far more popular man than plain Mr. Ladd several years af- ter the end of the fighting. The hostility of the populace unother hangover from the night of be- traynl-only

spurs Ladd to bring the traitor to justice.

In his

Ladd avenging role, successfully wields his gun, and also manages to mix it with the villain in a serap in which blood flows almost ng freely as Italian wine.

TODAY AND TOMORROW

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TIME (C)

OLD SUMMER

13. NEW ORLEANS official war films made dur-

TINKY

All the other characters are mere ing actual raids have been used, 14.17. 80 DEAR TO MY HEART pawns that move about in silent and nothing more exciting in this 10.11. KY MALE WAR BRIDE terror of Miss Davis' diabolical line has yet been seen on the mind.

screen.

effective by what has gone be But they are made twice as

fore.

22. NIGHT

EYES 23. JOHN LOVES MARY. 24. QUARTET 25.26. HOMECOMING

HAS A THOUSAND

The man who is the inmediate cause of the hercine's downfull is David Brian, a strapping new-

Gregory Peck, 15 the group 27,28. LOOK FOR THE SILVER LIN- coiner who tries hard to struggi commander, gives the finest per- INQ (C) out of the shadow of Bette Davis' formance of his career, and there 1011. THE KID FROM TRXAB (C)

29. MRS, SHEFFINGTON (R) impressive performance.

iu faultless acting by Dean Jagger, Some comic reliet is

provided

Millard Mitchell, by Dona Drake as an Indinn Hugh Marlowe, and Gary Merrill,

Bob Patten (C)-Colo servant, whose lubrienus hips,

Henry King's direction has ex- stringy hair and slovenly way plotted to the full what is quite make her an inspired miniature one of the best war fins ever

satire of her mistress

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RATINGS

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

★★★★ Excellent

★★★ Above average

*

Average

Below average

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Stanwyck Lancaster,

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Nebody's As Good As Bette When She's Bad

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BEYOND THE FOREST

RUTH ROMAN

NEXT.

In all, "Captain Carey, CHANGE. all U.S.A." is a suspenseful movie that_nunages to offer realism- thrills and otherwise-and some botween Mr. tender" romance Ladd and the diminutive Miss Hendrix. Francis Lederer pleases as the villain, while an assort- ment of coinparatively unknown supporting actors and actresses turn in surprising performances.

Suspense film with a wallop

Rating:★★★* Suspense reaches the gasp- ing point at the King's Theatre, where the Hal Wallis-Anatole Litvak pro- duction of Paramount's "Sorry, Wrong Number," a murder chiller with an en- tirely new slant, is now show- ing.

Co-starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, "Sorry, Wrong Number" is a shriek-by- shriek picture of the encroach- ment of murder. It compels its audience to shrink in common horror with a woman who early in the story overhears her death being plotted and, in an hour and a half of helpless, horrification, awaits her end.

screen

Enlarged and transposer to the

from

Lucille Fletcher's radio the film contains many

play, more shudders than the half-hour retwork thriller wh

which Was beard here recently over Rediffusion.

Barbara Stanwyck turna in a the bed- fine performance as ridden neurotic whose only means of communication with the out- elde world is the telephone. But, for her, the phone becomes an in- strument of slow death from the moment she accidentally over- hears two men plotting the mur- der of an un-named-

woman.

Her terror la intensified with each succeeding, mysterious call from her husband's old girl friend, from his business associater ---- ali: plecing together the death plan and all pointing to one victim,

en the harrowing climaetle call from her frantic husband.-- a desperate attempt to cancel the agreement he made for murder which sho earnot answer: because of a páir of hands slowly

Phten ing around her throat.

Hurt Lancaster does a fine fol as Miss, Stanwych's husband, a man from the wrong side of the tracks strong on the outside, but" weak within, the victim of his frustrations. The supporting east, headed by Ann Richards, Wendell Cords and Harold Ver- thilyea is aleb to be highly com mended. A

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COMMENCING TODAY

LADD

as the American soldier who avenges his wartime betrayal!

Paramount presents

ALAN

LADD

CAPTAIN CAREY

JS.A.

co-starring

WANDA HENDRIX

Frames

Joseph

Lederer-Calleia

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MITCHELL LEISEN

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