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"KUNG'S MAJESTIC

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The Woman

of the

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1951.7

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THIS IS--IMPOSSIBLE

By Lée Falk and Phil Davis

SEEING IS BELIEVING, YOUR HONOR!

COME BACK, SWAMIE "G"

MANDRAKE, WHAT 'A PROBLEMA WHAT'LL WE'DO WITH HIM?

WHAT DID YOU SAY CHIEF

SEE! THE JAINUTE YOUR BACK'S TURNED TO HIM--HE IS OFF! AND NOBODY BUT YOU CAN HANDLE HIM IT'S--IMPOSSIBLE!

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“CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER

Year

in the

Picture of the

Year

ROMULUS

JAMES

AVA

MASON GARDNER

·

PANDORA and the Flying Dutchman.

Colour by TECHNICOLOR

Produced and Directed by ALBEIT LEWIN

with MiGEL PATRICK, SHEILA SIN, HAROLD WARRENDER, WARIS CABOD

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{

ABOUT AS ROMAN AS

Britain's Pater Ustinov

It's Bunk-The

BUBBLE GUM

But Peter Ustinov Is Superb In “Quo Vadis"

By R. M. MacColl

NEW YORK. pœa, and any moment I thought

would call

Six million dollars! what a waste!

Ob. Nero

"Quo Vadis," the super- colossallest, fantasticest. most superlative epic to ent all epics (it's probably done' that all right) ever made. the most boring, ab- surdest piece of anti-climax I ever sat through.

instead.

her Poppy

-(London Express Service)

It's A Gorgeous

Sea Picture

Says ELSPETH GRANT

Το

The darn thing runs for

my mind--and no three solid hours, and, if offence meant to Mr my adding machine is right. Gregory Peck-the real

America's Robert Taylor

Noah's Ark

that works out at 2,000,000 stars of CAPTAIN In Modern

Kind You See dollars

JESSE JAMES F

The most exching Westem meer muda!

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the

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While the former is rendered.

hour. They HORATIO HORNBLOWER, should have given the R.N., are Mr Tom Morahan, the Marshall] the art director Mr Raoul money to Plan.

Walsh, the director, and Mr You all know about the Guy Green, the lighting

George Pal, who produced' Christian cameraman, who were large- "Destination Moon" some Says LEONARD MOSLEY

story beautiful

ly responsible for as time ago, now emerges with anyone has any doubts slave girl (our Debby Kerr) about

Gardner's wins over roistering Robert gorgeous a sea picture as a sequel entitled "When Ava

playing Marcus any landlubber could hope to Worlds Collide." The second supremacy

the most Taylor, 38

picture is not as good a.. the first. beautiful human landscape Vinicius, to see the error of see.

The colour, the costumes, in films, the highly coloured his ways in ancient Rome.

the settings especially views of her which camera-

Rome is burned downy ships are superb, and the bat-more than usumly, convincing man Jack Cardiff has made while Nero (played by Peter tie sequences (in which itby the realism, of the scientific this attempt is merely extras factor, AND THE in PANDORA

Ustinov-the only success seems incredible

were not slaughtered by the the story of Noah in modern FLYING DUTCHMAN

of the whole picture) whips score) simply magnificent. dress. should change their dull off a few hot licka on his

As B adventure. Alm 1

- it REAL UNDERSTANDING provides top entertainment, 'minds.

lyre.

and sofentists probably will Mr Gregory Peck, egregious-not dispute the idea that when ly handsome, plays Hornblower | the end of the world arrives, splendidly, with a real under it will come as the film makes standing of the character. His it by a headlong collision of a co-star, Miss Virginia Mayo, planet with the earth.

Wellesley, aa Lady Barbara

is Suspense is kept at a high be- convincing-perhaps less

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Miss Gardner gels thorough going-over from Car- diff's avid lens. She is survey

from all possible angles and proped al around every curve,

York T see her.

ail dozec hades and in about a different costumes, including a sallcloth and a bathrobe.

There isn't one of them that will fail to stir green envy in ali women who see her

more

Buddy Baer (Ursus), who is s of the former world brother heavy-weight champ Max, plays a giant who is very attached to Debby (as who wouldn't be?)

In the smash climax, these soldiers have got Debby roped to a stake in the Colosseum, see and the so-and-so's turn lose a

wild bull. Oh boy.

that

Iron Duke hed a

pitch throughout, and come of cause it seems highly unlikely the destruction scenes—parti-

cularly the flooding

of New that the porcelain sister but in one York-aro

Impressive. brief scene, st the deathbed of The volcanic eruptions, a midshipmižu, is unexpected-tidal. waves, the collapse

skyscrapers, the tumble

But Buddy's right in there to ly affecting. keep her from harm.

most

the

of

of

new

Since Ava is such a lovely piece of physiological handi- work, I could almost forgive

The first 50 minutes of the monstrous, heel edifices all are film are completely enthralling. Fortrayed in frightening reality. her even if she had no

Bull Gets His

then, on

the

But the film is marred by the entrance of idea of acting than an emerald bracelet. But in this Blm she

Buddy must have belonged to romance, the pace slackens. It accentuation of the fight of a had quite a part.

at some point. He picks up again, though, and handful of people to a is based on thea rodeo "Pandora"

rafiling speed about the

of peld. It departs from the title one sees nothing of legend of the Flying Dutchman grapples with that little ole bull; Hornblower's anal adventure because

its little ole there can be no complaints →→ the eventual collision and do-med to sail the ceas for ever folis, and breaks

neck, kerrunch-just like that. though the rollicking nature ultimate nemesis. until, on one of his seven-year-That got 'em.

Instead, 48 people make a suc- of the escapade is a little out ly calls in port, he finds ja

landing O a

planet woman who loves enough

Yes, in spite of all the money,of key with the initial realism.cessful

where the grass is green and the time (12 years in the works) give her life for him.

the flowers red, and where one presumes that the processes of evolution and multiplication will begin to take their slow, tortuous course.→→→→ADC.

runs

against

to

James Mason comes ashore and the effort (one man travelled at a Spanish village to once again for such a woman, various animals, including two the cast o Miss cheetahs), despite

30,000 and in spite of some lovely colour, the thing is about as Roman in atmosphere as a pack of bubble gum.

seek 136,000. miles, collecting the

and Gardner.

SOME GAL

19

No Whiteman?

"Borrowed"

Face

According to the script, she is quite a gal. Marius Goring has drunk poison because she will not love him. Nigel Patrick chucks his prize racing car over a cliff just to give her a thrill.

And Mario Cabre, famous but-fighter, takes torro into the ring at midnight and expertly plays before its

The story is about a plastic slashing, infuriated horns, just

surgeon, played by Paul Hen Debby starts to leave the room reld, who

од operates co she will be amused.

the When Ava looks at last into in a pretty huff. "Hey, hostage hideously scarred face of a the eyes of James she realises come back here," calls rolster-woman convict and turns her that she has found love for the Ing Robert. first time--and he knows that

When husky-voiced Lizabeth Scott starts work on "Stolen Some the lines are unbe- Face" at Riverside she will find lievable. Roistering Robert en het part of her own face has counters a small boy running been "borrowed" by London ne through the streets while Rome tress Mary Mackenzie.... conflagrates. "Better get out of here, son," he advises him.

into a replica of a beautiful woman to whom he has made an here is the girl who can bring fade-out they make Battling

And just before the final unsuccessful proposal of his everlasting voyaging to an

marriage. Bob say to another Roman end

It is a love affair which the general: "You must come visit director obviously

us in Sicily, with Drusilla and Intended the children.”

and

should be one of heart-rending profundity,

Tristan D

It's real club-car stuff, and Isolde emotional encounter, full kept expecting A basketball scandal to break out or Paul Whiteman to start playing. It i is all the more regrettable "Whispering" at the orgy,

of glorious doom.

SHE TINKLES.

that Ava manngea...... to

like fint tinkle la a

sound

part

that should boom like a great

Give Me Air

bell, and performs her chore I think, though, that the hel

....

Miss. Scott will have a dual role as the beauty and M Henreld's patient but will not take over the second part until he girl has been transformed by the operation.

In thq carly sequences, already begun, she is played by Miss Mackenzie, Wu Dim-goers accept them as the same woman? Miss Mackenzie hopea so

(except in the actual embraces met is dofed to Peter Ustinov, She and Misa Scott aZO" DA as If she wore a bored hostess He winds up butchering him similar height around 5ft Lia--

th an air-conditioned funeral self to make a Roman half- and build.

parlour.

holiday, but before that wo

But don't let that keep you had been trouted to a riot of away from this An.

James Mason handles his

thepirod mugging

Just to mako

stulences whil; be persindek

her face could be trans (CHROM part of the sea-sick, Dutchman Sothatimes to threatened to usto, Misool's she with ati muthortly that will overdo it bit, and I felt we two-and-a-half hours. In please his fans du moite of an were watching, u dubitive, from comce-up chale,, accent that oWON more... la | the. Crazy – Guda

County Down than the Zuyder fifts Mark Brother put on

Zee.

sum up "Pandora" as pre-whole he wa

tentious bunk, but enjoyable Not o Buna, too. I could munly a to whoren wo! again and not only for another

Her fore

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