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ON PANORAMIC SCREEN

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RANDOM HARVIST

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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

Hmm THAT DOESN'T GIVE ME MUCH }{WAIT. YOU-CAN CHOICE I MIGHT

NOT EAT

BUT YOU TOLD ME

I MUST. BESIDES,

I'M HUNGRY NOW.

--THE FOOD t

SO HERE GOES--

I DIDN'T COME

HERE TO EAT. I CAME TO SEE THE JUNGLE WITCH.

EAT-OR-DIE..

AS WELL EAT ‘►

LOOKS GOOD-

FILMS-CURRENT

be

There is quality to found amongst the new

films this weök. "THE CRUEL SEA," "MY SIX

By Lee Falk and Phil Davie

NO.IT-IS-CHANGED. YOU -WILL-NOT-EAT-YET.

AND COMING

By MARGARET BRUCE

FERRER DOMINATES

CONVICTS," "MOULIN beautiful film will be showing, as He drinks himself to death, and ROUGE" and also Walt well, at the KING'S and FRIN- the closing scenes are among Disney's "BEAR COUN. CESS. Ignore the "cheesecake" the nest in the film.

Advertiroments. They are entirely TRY should provide the appropriate. The can-cana of Answer for alt film fans who the Moulin Rouge are the real get tired of groping amid a thing, danced in Victorian knee- welter of minor thrillers breeches, and with undisguised holes in the thick block stockings, and Westerns for something of a more solid nature..

I hope the box-oflice tuk- ings will plead their cause

The screen is dominated by Jose Ferrer as Lotitree, with his beautiful speaking voice. (The Jovellest I have heard in the cinema is a truly elever fm, 1 thin and of far greater strength.) 1 since Ronald Colman, a great ene but certainly not

magnificerly sustained preste one, and certainly not for is our caitse-more eloquently great andet of the late nineteenth ly

child: en tells the story of that performance, though I personal- felt that visually, he was thun anything I can write. contury, Henti 20 Toulouse- restricted by the intensity of his It is the only tongue Low'ece, ned, unlike to many cinema

managers under my blographies : gratifyingly introduces examples of rome at stand, naturally.

lls vivacious, brilliant work in close-up,

"MY SIX CONVICTS" is showing at the EMPIRE and MAJESTIC. This is another film that I mentioned last week, and it is undoubtedly another must,

Stanley Kremer has taken into his cunning hands an attrac- well- live subjeri, although written one, and has produced a Alm of, I would ay, almost univermal opptal, Don't be put if by the title if you can appre- ciate superb direction and acting I was thrilled and amused rad enjoyed very moment of il

•

Is He was a pathetic one. Crippled by a fall as a child he was known as the Little Monster the Moulin Rouge that he made temous by his paintings, He grew increasingly bitter and became a hopeless alcoholic.

After

brief

of

period happiness snatched in the arms. of a girl from the murky streeta nf the Puris underworld that he knew and pointed so well, he

meets his one true love, only to And now we come to our Great inse her and realise too late that Guns-"MOULIN ROUGE.” This she had, in her turn, loved him.

THE TALK

OF THE TOWN!

CIRCUS

BUSCH

BERLIN

WATCH FOR

THE OPENING DATE

STAGE CLUB

Presents

MIRANDA

By

PETER BLACKMORE

at

CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE

on

29th, 30th 31st Oct. 1953 Booking: Moutries H.K. & Kowloon

EMPIRE

TO-MORROW

EXTRA MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M. Paramount Pictures · Prosents TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Admission $1.50 and $1.00,

unke»tama.

Certainty it is net approached by any of the women. They are nit perfect in type, They look the parts, they behave the parts but they don't act them."

Zsa-ZBR Gabor bas Боте wonderful lines to say and she looks enchanting saying them but the needs attack-and she really should move her lips in time to the music if a sign voice is dubbed,

the

Collette Marchand 15 streetwalker is so nearly ck- collent that I felt it was a

pity

Blm

that they didn't "discover" her muld have gained the experience or so ago, so that she

required for this part, Suzanine Fion is just dull, Kath as La Goulue, the dancer, gives a noteworthy performance. The colour 13 mifted and lovely; me of the scenes of the French countryside

among arc

the loveliest Individual pictures

some

етеся,

have seen on

on any The Paris underworld shots are as revealing as a Loutred painting; they are horrifying and yet an intrinsic part of this magniflent flm. Don't miss it. (N.B. Any confirmed alcoholics amonist our readers will die- cover an interesting new use for a walking-stick.)

A re-issuo

"RANDOM HARVEST". 13 on nt the CAPITOL and LIBERTY. This

to be followed by RIDE. VAQUERO starring Ava Gard- ner, Robert Taylor and Howard Keel. The story is based on the love of two men for a woman.

Surprised? The one is her husband, a visionary who takes

bride- his

out-West-in-the-hope of founding a "Cattle Empire", whatever it.

(It may be. sounds terrifyingly like George Orwell's Animai Farm.) This part is played by Howard Keel. but not to music.

The other man (to whom she appears to allow equal, though more tempestuous, privileges) is a bandit, alias Robert Toy- lor, momentarily stripped of his.

armour.

Ava Gardner is the beauti- ful bone of contention and she is becoming

increasingly good actress.

on

However, the 'best perform- anco is undoubtedly Croes Anthony Quinn as the bandil's wicked brother. Wo have come to expect fine work from this brilliant supporting player- you may remember him in *VIVA ZAPATA."

If you like hard-ridin', hard- shootin' and raw emotions here you are. Of course, somebody

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The LEE and GREAT WORLD have highly coloured and romante piece of Aladdin's Lamp nonsense called "GOLDEN BLADE," Incorporating all one has come to expect from Plper Laurio but this lime the mas- culino beauty is provided by Rock Hudson, YOU may like it!

TRUE ADVENTURE

They follow up with "BELOW THE SAHARA." This is the true adventure story of Armand and Michaela Denis In Darkest Africa. They hunt with B ก gun, and camera instead of though I have not been able to ce it' yet, it should be packed with thrills-the climax being a Korilla hunt, And, after years of believing that giraffes dumb, here, I bellove, they give vocal vent to their displeasuTY at being photographed,

With this is another of Walt Disney's priceless collection of nature films-this one is "BEAR COUNTRY." Like all in this serien it is enchanting. · well photographed and edited, with wit and drama intermingled with wonders of this world of ours. the startling revelations of the Try not to miss it, and be sure you take your family along.

The ROXY and BROADWAY are presenting "FAIR WIND TO JAVA," + spectacular story of tho Intrigue and piracy on Dutch sea lanes around Jova. It is in violent colour, and you'll find it packed with excitement if tidal waves, volcanoes etc. are the form of entertainment you prefer. Fred MacMurrey is the unlikely captain of a schooner,

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-HIG BLADE OF GOLD- ...A LEGEND IN BATTLE HER KISS OF SURRENDER

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THE

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