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SHOWING

TO-DAY

KINGS MAJESTIC

AT 2.30, 5.15. 7,20 & 9.30 P.M.

5 SHOWS TO-MORROW

EXTRA PERFORMANCE

KING'S: AT 11.30 A.M.

LANTASTER

STORMS SEA AND SHORE

IN BREATHLESS FEATS NEVER SEEN BEFORE!

WARNER BROS.

PRESENT

The

MAJESTIC: AT 12 NOON

Crimson Pirate

TECHNICOLOR

JEN SICK CAREST | Nerve ROLAND KIBBEE HAROLD HECHT ROBERT SIODMAK

NORMA

SHOWING

TO-DAY

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WARNER BROS.

CAPITOL

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

BRING

ALL THE FAMILY:

To See

OSREDAN VARA- HATING CARTOONhi

Also:

TO DELIGHT ALL! THE ROSE OF BAZADAD

IN COLOUR BY TECHNICOLOR WITH

'JULIE ANDREWS

enacting the leading role

Directed by

Anton Gino Domenegil

Dialogue Direction by William de Lane Led

An Ima Production

Distributed by

ม

GRAND NATIONAL PICTURES LTD.

3 Stooges Comedy

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.00 NOON

An Indian Picture

“ANDAZ”

Released Thru GIAN SINGH & CO., LTD.

RO X Y & BROADWAY

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

It's FRANKIE and SHELLEY ..that DYNAMITE pair!

UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL presents

FRANK SINATRA SHELLEY WINTERS ALEX NICOL

Meet DANNY WILSON

\Frankie Sings 9 FAVORITE SONG HITS ! ».

RAYMOND BURR Story and Screepy DOM MCOIKE « Eivacted by JOSEPH PÍTHET

ADDED! Latost. 20th Century-Fox Moviotong Nows, Fosturing: CINEMASCOPE TO REVOLUTIONIZE, Franco Famed Sorbonno Optical Scientist Henri. Chretion, Demonstrates 3 Dimensional Film System. ROXY & BROADWAY: TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 12.00 NOON

SELECTED PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS

Presented by 20th Century-Fox

ROXY At Roduced Prices ● BROADWAY At $1.20 & 70c

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1953.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

YOU WANT ME

THE OASIS OF ABOU THE

BANDIT?

A TOUGH GANG OF CUTTHROATS. LUCKY I GOT AN INTRO TO THIS ABOU GUY. ——

THEY ARE RICH.THEYİ WHERE | | TO KIDNAP WILL BRING ABIG ARE |SOME WOMEN.] RANSOM,AROU. THEY?

50?

By Lee Falk and Pbil Dayla

IN THE DESERT, DIGGING UP--PA-OLD RUBINS. BUT 1 WANT YOU TO WAIT | UNTIL THEY FINISH DIGGING.

JOHN BEHAGUE on a “really big" picture

I WHAT DO

YOU EXPECT | -PART OF THE RANSOM.

INO,I TAKE WHAT THEY DIG UP - YOU TAKE THE RANSOM ISITA DEALS

THREE-HOUR CHARIOT RIDE

AROUND

ANCIENT

Л What

D

ROME

HERE is nothing small of revelry, secret meeting of the

character Peter Christians in about "Quo Vadis" attic of the giants, the burning Making his debut in American the catacombs, Ustinov has made Nero! it is everything Holly- of Rome, the feeding of the pletures, this famous British wood claims it to be the Christians to the lions, Ursus director, actor ai script writer most colossal spectacle ever battle to the death with a bull, gives a deeply etched impression filmed. With a parade of 29 and the death of No:o-all re of the vain, unbalanced

miniscent of some serial in 18 peror. stars-many of them Bri- steaming chapters, but handled tish-an Army of 110 hore with dynamic brilliance.

The crowd seenes are terrife of players with speaking roles.

by

This is achieved in the main an extraordinary collection Krunts, grimaces and tend to turn

and a combined force of the duo again with my super- gestures, which

latives!). In the arena and In 30,000 extras, to say nothing the main square of Rene they Hero into a bulloon but which a spicy, almost slapstick of 63 lions, 150 horses and are there in their thousands-a

Reven

sce.

And Deborah Kerr (another, an hostage, Lygia, is sweet and British star), playing the Christ- sufficiently restrained as the gut rescued from the stake in the nick of time.

But perhaps the most im- pressive performance comes from Patricia Listan. £19 Poppaco, scheming wife of Nero. She is as cold and as cruel as a Siberlan blizzard and moves with the

restless grace of a tigress. Ndd

bulls, it sweeps great carpet of many colours sense of humour to the story of through the gallery of old stretching as far as the eye can the rise and fall of a tyrant, Technicolour epics like a And when the trumpets sound mighty wave, leaving a high and the soldier heroes march by the whole scene becomes alive tide mark that may not be with cheering, waving people, reached again for many and we forget that this is the age of the atom and are carried years.

This three-hour chariot ride back through the centuries into

Rome around ancient

with the heart of Nero's fabulous Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, empire.

Leo Селл, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laftan and Finlay Currie is without question stag- geringly good The film is shortly due here.

CHRISTIANS BURNT

L

There will be those who will condemn the Ecenes in the arena, ng the Christians are burnt to death on the cross or fed to the llons, as sordid, and hordile...those who wili criticise the accuracy of the events inside the palace of Em- peror Nero ...but no-one will deny that for size and spectacle "Quo Vadis" is a memorable

HIS ACCENT Robert Taylor, as the Roman warrior, Marcus Vinicius, is the most handsome here Hollywood could And, and is, in turn, cynical, brave and bursting with passion, although his accent at times sounds a little strange to English ears.

Swanson's Swansong? It Might As Well Be, Says Sue Dawson

LORIA

Swanson,

•

In of finitely different Swanson.

U whom fable and recent fact it is rather surprising that ara actress once considered great rumour has led one to ex- should squander her reputation pect so much, appeared on a fim like this. Much of the Story of the most wicked here for a few days in disappointment, empire in world history, steeped "Three for Bedroom C due to Gloria herself.

Alma.

In lechery and lust for new con-

quests, it is presented in a series this week.

of awesome incidents—the return

mind you, la

She is acting the part-with

Her first m since "Sunset make-op to match-of a woman

of the conquerors, Nero's night Boulevard", it shows an In- who has reen at least twenty

While her mistress prettily renders “Tit-willow,”-Ellon Creed, played by Christabej Wheatley, prepares to strangle her. The mistress in Leonora Fiske, played by Violet Dekker, and the picture was taken during a rehearsal of the Hongkong Slage Club's production of “Ladies In Retirement,”

A 19th century drama "which will be presented at the China Fleet Clab next

wock,

SHOWING

TO-DAY

LIBERTY

·A Mandarin Picturo

"BLUE

SKY”

天

雲

with MISS LI-LI HWA

AT 2.30, 5,30,

7.30 & 9.80

P.M.

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M. RKO Radio Picture" Presente

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At Reduced Prices!

years less of life than shẹ. (A conservative estimate.) Another pity is that her movements and gestures are tailored to at the old silent Alms, when every= thing had to be rather, over-

emphasised to get it across. Her

actig has bad none of the re-

"Quo Vadis" niay not be the greatest picture in years, but

it is certainly the biggest, the broadest and the most enter- taining.

STAR

Phone: 58135 ——

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

20

WITH AS SONG IN MY HEART LECHNICOLOR

LADS OF SON

HAYWARD CALHOUN

情淚心

juvenation of her looks, and the 15, 9. FANTABIA

exaggerated style does not be- 16, M. Lady Fossened

come today's talkies, particular-17, T. Cobra Wom

ly as Miss Swanson is no longer W. Father hiarites Again

David and Bathsheks

ladling out the turgid melodrama" 19, T.

20, Tom Brown's Rchool Days"

which saved her in "Sunset 21, 8.

Boulevard". Here Eho utlers

platitudes of some uninspired

hack us if they were

verbal gems, and both the film and Gloria Swanson in it grow in- congruous and rather päthetic.

Besides the inconsequenilal istory concerning a silly film star who plants herself with her precocious little girl in a train bedroom reserved for James Warren, a diffident

and in- different Science Professor, the mls handicapped with mini- mum action, poor acting and a hideous colour technique known absurdly as 'Natural' coleur.

Unless an admired actress of the past socks to crucify her re- putation with more such non- sense, this had better be her Swansong.

KAYE AND KELLY

Gene Kolly and Danny "Kaye will co-star in one of the most important colour mulcals of 1953, "Huckleberry

Flan." Fliming will start when Geno re- turns from his European trip.

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MGM's

Colossal

QUO VADIS

(In Technicolor)

IS

COMING

ORIENTAL

ZAITEZENDETIENETI

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30–5.30—7.30 & 9.30 P.M.İ A POWERFUL LOVE STORY THROUSH A WOMAN'S EYES!!

24-G-MI ME

ROBERT

ABOVE TAYLOR

AND ELEANOR BEYOND PARKER

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 °

AT REDUCED PRICES —

Charles BOYER and Margaret SULLIVAN in "BACK STREET"! An-Universal-International "Film.

QUEEN'S

Pago

Sunday Morning Show

AT 13.30 AM. ONLY

COLOR CARTOONS

From

M-G-M G Warner Bros. & R.K.O.

ATEREDUCED PRICES

AT 2.30, 5.15,

AT 2.30, 5.30,

7.20 9.30 QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.30 & 9.30

P.M.

* SHOWING TO-DAY

VA VILE

BEERY

P.M.

EMPIRE PRINCESS

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

TODDARY

PLEASE BOOK FARLIER

ile has to choose between tho

bull and the senorita of..

A NDALOUSTI

In gorgeous Gevacolor

Luis

starring

Carmen

MARIANO SEVILLA

A great French picture

with English subtitles

TAKUNTABILI

Distributed by Columbia

ALSO LATEST PARAMOUNT NEWS TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

EMPIRE

12.30 p.m. RKO TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At Reduced Pricos

PRINCESS

11.15 a.m.

M-G-M' TECHNI-

COLOR CARTOONS

NEXT CHANGE ★

flicked

Dekk

DENISON-GRAY

The GLASS MOUNTAIN

Kit CORTESE

INSTITUTO PORTUGUES de H.K. PROUDLY PRESENT

SEQUEIRA COSTA (GRAND PRIX LONG/THIBAUD. 1951), THE WORLD RENOWNED PIANIST

A RECITAL

GRANNAK, BAINING COLLEGE,

KOWLOON

· OD

Sunday 15th March at 9.30

Admission 510 4 $5 (tax included)

BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S

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