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· RANDOLPH SCOTT

HANGMAN'S KNOT

DONNA REED

TECHNICOLOR

Claude Jarman, Jr. • Erant Faylen • Lewn Marvin • A scort BROWN PRODUCTKOT » Froduced by BARRY IDE CROWN

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"ASSIGNMENT-PARIS"

MAKÝ

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1958.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

| limm➡HE WANTS ME TO GO IN. ALL RIGHT.

BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH LIKE A TRAPS- I'LL GO AROUND THE BACK WAY--

THE SILENT MAN SUDDENLY RAISES NİS AXE--

LOWER YOUR AXE-- YOU CANNOT MOVE-

WILDA--

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

MANDRAKE GESTURES HYPNOTICALLY-

MY HYPNOTISM HAD NO EFFECT ON HIMI ARE THESE

PEOPLE TRULY

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It's M-G-M's

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Filmed in the

Southwest's historic

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CAPACHE

WAR

SMOKE

Gilbert ROLAND - Glenda FARRELL

Robert HORTON Barbara RÚICK Gene LOCKHART

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Robert

TECHNICOLOR

Rhonda

RYAN FLEMING LUNDIGAN

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ONE OF THE TEN BEST FILMS OF 1952

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Vittorio DE SICAS

MIRACLE OF MILAN

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FILMS-CURRENT

Our films this week ap- pear to be of a somewhat bloodthirsty nature. Last

AND COMING

By MARGARET BRUCE

beards such olde-Indlan ob- Pervations as "Say, he mure must have gotten onto that train." week we had children, now take it Scuth as a form of pre- its

its draina,

After this they will be show- adventure. we have Hangman's Knot. Staratal Aid.

its spirit and its human warmth, Stanley Kramer's "MY SIX Dawn Inferno, The

of

CONVICTS." To this end he commandeers thrillingly fold,

I probably won't China's Revolution and The Stage Coach In

como on until after next Satur which п The plot is familiar. A day, when I can review it more Jonner Union Cruel Sea to name but a

Army nurse of men being blended

Fulky, vat nee can (Donna Reed) is travelling. It formidable lighting unit; their few.

is pursued by renegade Vigl- Captain burdened by the sor- Jones, and A Unnecessarily rows exciting time is bad by every leadership; their ordeals suffer

and responsibilities one

ed together. But Is produced in- to a magnificent picture, silr ring and touching.

The KING'S and MAJES- TIC share the first one, PHANGMAN'S KNOT," in which Columbia presents Randolph Scott and Donna Reed. This is a violent Techniqolour Saga-I think that's the word for it.

The hero is a Confederate Anny Major who has captured gold bullion from came Union Troops and, ou hearing

that the war is over, he decides to

HONG KONG

STAGE CLUB

MIRANDA

at

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29th, 30th & 31st. OCT, 1953

Booking at

MOUTRIES H.K. & Kowloon,

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the

into

of

never be sure here, unfortunately, so want to warn

you not to, mis W

this fine film

account. on any

its title is so unendearing that I have you might well, and heard it snit that although Kramer makes such wonderful

ims

they are seldom "box- office." Take my advlee and

ve this wrong. prove

A will be followed by other Columbia fim,this line e Paul Galilee theller "AS-

Jack Hawking dominates the SIGNMENT-PARIS." The as-

ent signment In question

is to an scene

Captain Ericson. I know of another actor American reporter (competent- don't

Here we have the story of a who by played by Dana

con- can more sincerely Andrews) who follows hußel and

vince his audience that he

whose first is young psychiatrist plunging neckline on

ving his part. Pretty Virginia appointment is to a State Pri- lovely. exelling Marta Toren into more Me

McKenna has the feminine lead son, where he is on probation

for Julle,

six months, It tells his ex- adventure than he

bargained 99

most in periences, known as "Glamour-pants

particularly OPS"

with his six convict assistants. Denholm Elliott again It is perhaps, a Ritle bit the

From tho

moment tho usual thing about political in-ves an appealing perform-

ance you ny

remember him cumeras begin to turn you can trigue, with Eastern European Governments standing or fall- SOUND BARRIER."

as Ann Todd's brother in "THE feel the grip of a master on the reins. This 18 direction. Every- ing on the evidence in the re

The place. this I hope you'll see

film. thing falls into porter's hands. However, it is You should. You must,

casting, the dialogue, the photo- graphy, the acting. It is NOT a dreary Prison Epic; it IS full

for.

a well-neted Bho, with George Sanders as one of Its anvers,

ment.

"INFERNO. from

Wrên Officer

the

2012

We should see more of John Beat who, together with Gilbert Holind and Millard Mitchell, is outstanding. But there is no such thing as a bad or mediocre performance.

CVET

and the uspence is kept at a Century Fox studios, is or at the of humour and humanity. suBelently high level ta pro- vide you with good entertain- ROXY nad BROADWAY. The is a clever, though again vioken! film, with an excellent perform The QUEEN'S at ALHAM-e by Robert Ryan as the spoils

million Inc. BEA, are, at the moment, show-

obanlaned to die ing a Chinese film with English rong's the rocky cunguns of the sub-ifles called "THE DAWN

Mojave Desert by his beautiful mf faithless wife (Rhonda Following "IVANHOE" at the Fleming) and her secret lover Capitol and her M

have William

WAR APACHE Lunchigan).

SMOKE." Strangely it combines two in-

OF CHINA'S REVOLUTION, but I haven't seen It. How- ever, it is to be followed by a

alm we've all been waiting for It gives a wonderful opportun-

THE CRUEL SEA," un Faly, to Robert Ryan, because gredients from other lins that f

Studios

of during half de fim the Techni have reviewed today. Gilbert production Monserrat's best colour esenora! Cho focurre Roland and the Mojave Desert,

dimly onto him alone as he Roland plays an amiable but splints his broken leg are makes formidable lus derseat down a mountainside

ing Nicholas seller.

bandito whose As you would expect, this is

situation saves the Kallantry a very expurgated edition, and fraught with menace,

when a group of people are what emerges is the stark story Rock

an Isolated desert slides, rattlesnakes, hum- besieged in of two ships and a handful of cry wolves, third and a wild fight station by horde of vengeful men during the War when the stared in a burning cabin-this Apache Indians. He also saved Royal Navy hunted U-boats by nm, and Robert Ryan, has her the situation for nie by his the pack. These men are the all It will come as no surprise sense heroes, the heroines are

and ships

the villian Cruel Atlantic itself.

the

El

of humour.

Retribulion

is the to you to learn that this character comes to the villain, and, one

proves and improves himself with

his courage and entire supposes, a great deal of loot to the debonair but dangerous at and cemerges "quite a guy."

bandit.

Directed with authentic mosphere by Charles Frend

it

maintains

Rhordia Fleming is very lovely

(the THELI responsible for and a very adequate actress. It's The LEE and PRINCESS are "SCOTT OF THE ANTARC strange to note that, although she showing a Japanese Alm, but TIC." this film telescopes all is co-starred with Ryan, they one that is directed by Josef the

epic nvents of the won't ences until the very end. von Sternberg. The narration book, but

This really is an unusual is. in English and the film was thriller, and if you can stand all exhibited at the Venice Festival. the agony you should find it well All those who saw "RASHO- worth vinjl.

MON" will roolise that this is an Interesting event.

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"THE SAGA OF ANATAIIAN" STALLION," and although I is fiction based on the have not been able to oco this fact that several Japanese men nim

I should think that it and one woman were marooned would be Ideal for

on the South Pacific Island of older on children.

Anatahon during and atter the It is to be followed by a film war for seven years. Von called "LAST TRAIN TO Stemberg decided that the true BOMBAY." If your taste is for story was merely sordid and has "mysteries" set in the East, added some fun and games of here is your chance. It has all his own. He has succeeded in film the ingredients. Club feet, producing an arty-crafly heroes wrongly accused of mur of unparalleled boredom. It has

the oll

freshness der, will-the-train-run-into-the lost bomb, sinister characters run "RASHO-MON" and I scams a ning around in turbans, and pity that they look the trouble burnt cork, muttering into their to import the man to do it,

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"THE DAWN OF CHINA'S.. REVOLUTION"

XX

A Chinese Picture WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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THE SAGA

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AMATAHAN

Written, Photodimpled and Dineled by

JOSEF VON STERNBERO

NARRATION IN ENGLISH

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“THE STOLEN PLANS ”

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