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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1951.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis,

SHOWING

TO-DAY

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN.

AT, 2.30, 5:15,

QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.30

NOW YOU--WHATEVER YOU ISF | SƠ THE TWO GUN-

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MEN WHO TRIED TO OUTBID MESS" ON THE FARM:21

P.M.

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at his haurie

The quis of

his own men

pointed at his buck

ONLY THE VALIANT

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AT 12 NOON

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED

Tako Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.30-7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

A CAVALCADE OF ADVENTURE, SPECTACLE, MYSTERY AND EXCITEMENT! More thrillS THAN EVER!.

BIGGEST 15R DWARDİMALATAN

PICTURE BLACK MAGIC

IN TEN

DIGIT WILL HOLD YOU IN 135, SPILLI

YEARS!.. ALEXANDRE DUMAS

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 Another New Programme of Technicolor Cartoons

NOW

ON FOURTH BIG WEEK

RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH | TALKS ABOUT

B

Six Life-savers For British Films

RITISH FILM PRO- bis artists. Works in an at-

DUCTIONS take

mosphere of mered dedication.

MICHAEL POWELL: Closest idea of a fim

on

unconscionable time to die. to the layman'ndous enthusiasm

Economists and financiers director.

are continually pronouncing for what he's doing; bursting with experiment. Sweeps aside the body dead. ***

all difficulties, objections, and

The corpse, however, stli

chow's remarkable signs of life. y mentions with the awful ́ques,'

I think I always will..

Today. Brilish studios are turning out fewer Alma nu during the days of hope im inediately after the war, but cut best films are s: as good as any in the world.

manity

"Why?"

SYDNEY GILLIAT: Makes enjoyable filma because he finds Alm-making so enjoyable. Has a quiet, dry wit and an unerring alm sense. Could charm the hide off a rhino,

PETER UBTINOV: Plays all his cast....Shattering! the parts bigger and better than

Tough luck

OBERT DONAT will miss one I of the biggest occasions of his film career when royalty göcs to the September premiere of

The Magic Box.

Has America produced any thing in the last two years to surpass the Imaginative qualities and technical

of The Tales of

Has France bettered the gentle humour and observation of The Lavender Hill Mob?

Could the Itallun Alm-makers He'll be in hospital recovering have endowed Seven Days to from a serious operation. Tough simplicity and sense of actuality? recovery. Noon with a more convincing luck, Bob-here's tou quick

BUD

For my money, the answer is an cmphatic

"NO"

Adml. Nervo

DUD FLANAGAN, king of the Crazy Gang, has bought an- A yearling, it other racehorse, was to have been called Crazy Gangway,

but Bud has had a

And the horizon is bright with a hope which I'm convinced is justlied. Soon you will be see ing An Outenst of the Islands, The Man in the White Suit, Second thought, and is now call- Scrooge, High Treason, The ing it Admiral Nervo Sound Barrier, and The Magic Box.

These are some of the films

2. Why? Its father was Admiral's

and Its mother Nervous

Strain,

Says Bud: Neither father nor that will make a vintage year for mother has over won anything

special."

British flm production.

A

Says I:

rash prophecy? I don't think so. Like Randolph Turpin, Knox his own horse's parents."

"It's a fine man who

What a screen. ATEST story about the cinema and television is of

I am quietly confident.

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KNOW, WISE 'GUY

'TEEN-AGERS ADVISE HOLLYWOOD

For the frst time in the history of the film industry school children are serving as technical advisers on ä big-budget motion picture.

The picture lo Filmakers' RKO Raillo drama, "On the Loose," starring Joan Evane, Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari

in a cinema tale of teen-ago problems.

The youthful technical ad- visers, selected by members of the Los Angeles Board of Educa- tion, are Marion Hendrickson and Hugh Lester, from Holly- wood High School, and Bobelto Bentley and Vance Gillesple,

Richard Attenborough and his from Los Angeles High.

wife.

THEY'RE HUMAN "We took the view originally, Producer Collier Young pointed. Squadron, are deep in negotin-out, that American 'teen-agers, tions for a new Service film to be are human beings.

Going on made next summer.

from there, we were determined to make our picture about the

This time it is to be about the week-end Allers of the RNVR.

Full Admiralty co-operation is hoped for.

I asked Johnny how he felt about "rejoining" the Navy. He said, "Well, unless I get back into uniform once every six months I begin to get a bit worried."

D'

Squeaks

IRECTOR

Macken-

Sandy drick and sound editor Mary Hadderfield are claiming they've invented the answer to the zither. It has no name. It isn't an in- strument. It isn't even music.

But preview audiences have already howled their heads of

at it.

KING'S MAJESTIC

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2.30, 5.15, 7:20.

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AT. 2.30, 5.20, 7.20

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SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

AT THE KING'S AT THE MAJESTIC

AT: 11.30 A.M. Columbia Variety

Programme

with: Color, Cartoons & 3 Stanges, Comedios

AT 12.00 NOON "BEST OF THE

BADMEN

IN TECHNICOLOR

Here they come!

the old West's most dangerous Badmen... Sin Town's most tempting

woman!

BEST OF THE BADMEN

AT. THE KING'S

ALSO, WALT DISNEY'S COLOR.CARTOON

STARRING SEDAN

ROBERT RYAN CLAIRE TREVOR JACK BUETEL ROBERT PRESTON with WALTER BRENNAN' ISKS LESBER LAWRENCE SFERsty'

AT THE MAJESTIC

ALSO, WALT DISNEY'S *SE COLOR CARTOON

problems of high school kids and "Mickey & The Seal" "Chip And Dale'

their parents л realistic and honest story, dealing with the real problems of adolescenco,"

Even before

"On

the Loose" went into production the Your students high school

sat in an story conferences with Producer

Young, Associate Producer

Malvin Wold and Director Charles Lederer.

to

and

"One of this first things we': did," said Bobette, Bentley, was asure everybody that high school pupils don't use funny words

funny phrases. Those are for junior high kids and for the movies-the movies we mean, that so often imagine high school boys and girls to bt quite unlike they really are,"

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W tributes mast to the quality, a woman who went to a cinema to a texile Invention by Ale For "Half Breed”

It's the sund, accompaniment

There is only one for the first time in months and White Suit,.

· Guinness in The Man in the s came out gushing superlatives.

"The film wasn't

It plays in strict tempo all that great," she said, "but it was such rhythm and Cintis squeaks, A shortage of cheroot

squeals, and squirts.

of a film? answer--the director

What are directors like? Here are glimpses of some I have worked for:----

DAVID LEAN; A man with the profile of a poet and, the single-mindedness of a fanatic. Shy-In-manner-and-positivo in his artistic judgments. Has his mind

C1 one of

FOR ANOTHER TWO WEEKS shapeless

THE MANAGEMENT OFFER THEIR

THANKS

TO ALL THE CUSTOMERS WHO PATRONISED US DURING THE PAST

THREE WEEKS' SALE

FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENT

To make room for our incoming New Autumn: Variatios wo are compelled to "Soll Off": all our excellent faultless now remainders as previously' announced regardless of the Original Costs. Thoy.

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MANAGEMENT

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a large screen."

Slip-up

he had

Atmosphere

type cigara hit the Log -(London Express Service). Angeles retail tobacco market recently” The rea-

TENNIS MAKESTM

Bon

For an entire week RKO Radio "used more than 100 extrus in a Western dance hall scene for

Half

VYROBE

POWER

HAYWARD

Rawhide

NONSIDER (ho embarrassment |

of assistant director...CUM Owen, working on the star-laden of Iwo things Magic Box. the scene he

FILM STORY Harassed for months with more has just or is about to do.

blg námes than any assistant!

The ROXY ADDED LATEST MOVIETONE NEWS, FEATURING JOHN BOULTING: The should be forced to suffer in a "Hard, Fal and Beautifurts Technicolour feature,

Breed"! starring exhibited produced by Filmakers for RKO

Robert "WHAT IS HAPPENING BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN blue

denims

Carter and Jack and the on-like toot. shirt that he wears never quite

Young, Janis Then he Radio, is the first full-length feature over made about amateur

Bucie. get together. Chain smokes

To create the right atmosphere other people's cigarettes, Knows

In the sudden silence of the tennis and its ramifications..

Edward Ludwig had all actly what he

want's and studio he trawled: "On the set

males smoking cheroots. makes you feel it's

your idea. now, please, Mr Hulbert and Mr

Each man averaged from five to With his arm round your Olivier " shoulder takes you -20 yards

six chroots ber dayay the Everybody winced except Sir from the unit to whispers Laurence,

department was cleaned out, whose expression very good but.....*

never changed,

also couldn't find a cheroot of the desired type in town

+

slipped.

Starring Claire Trevor and Sally Forrest, the flim presents Sally as a young American tennis champlon.

She was coached in her role

developed, imong others, such

ROY BOULTING: Sartorially 'Pickwick' plan by Eleanor Tennant, who inore elegant than his twin. S Hollywood turns more and International net stars as Pauline Doesn't scrounge cigarettes, Pre- A fers to scrounge pipe tobacco. Sure of his touch he controls his, camera as rigidly as he controls

Laichikok BALLROOM

KOWLOON.COZIEST NIGHT CLUB. Dine & Dance Every Sight, Fram 8.30:

By request

Lina

sings to

Laichikok by

mid-night." "You're the only one I love "Oriental mood"

producers ara | Niggs,

musicals, British

моге to Westerns and Betz, Allca Marble and Bobby finding the non-copyright classica big box-office attractions.

e

the seventh

rescue by phoning San Diego A local wholesaler came to the

and having a fresh supply of 'cliproots, Bown to Lda Angeles.u

Having released Tom Brown's FIRST JUNGLE TARZAN CLUB

Schooldays

and

completed

Sertioge, George Minter now plans to make Pickwick Papers.

With 800 pages and 98 charac ters, scriptwriter Noel Langley has qulie a job on his bands,'

'Rejoining'

TUST heard from John Mill

that ho and Anthony Kimmins, who is an Honorary Commander of an RNVR Air

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