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Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra

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Commencing Tuesday at the KING'S

The World-known TV- RADIO-RECORD-MOVIE Mexican Singing Stars

"THE TRIOS LATINOS"

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By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

"DMING ABOUT

· FIGURE

FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING

A cross-section view

of

By MARGARET BRUCE

armg to a Central American patriot who has been ousted by a dictator.

the current presentations in the Colony is a faintly "KING diamal panorama.

Debble Reynolds, the GI's evidently some form of "pay- Scg are fellow passengers on OF THE KHYBER

dream girl, has a bouncy teenage off". RIFLES" is on, it is true, chann with innocence looming mabearned mye and one of the big, showy films, in cach but now in its third week lingering on painted lips.

it is scarcely now,

WITH DIGNITY

And this is a remarkable one of its kind. In essence it has Hollywood's oldest plot, in which a solitary and rather junior "cop" stands up to the vileness of the gang that runs the city, and single-handed exposes the evil and destroys the root.

If you are considering a visit to the pictures and There will follow MGM's Arst have not already

Been 3-Dimension Western, "ARENA"

But the embroidery on this "KING OF THE KHYBER As such I imagine it will have

it RIFLES"

#successful run in the Colony, basic theme is full of unusual is probably

although percentage

of the twists, and the finished product your best bet. This Indian audience, whilst readily living is powerful and of a morbid al- Western provides at least the romance (such pretty girls! traction.

You can practically put your the value of Cinemascope EL il is a magnificent arms around them!) may object to 'living the thrills of branco- spectacle with a sufficiently busting, and remaining a sitting- dramatic theme to make It target for the hurting missiles ---and there are many new exciting.

ones-used to advantage.

Ann Sheridan ond Zachary

My Ford's ship and are taken as hostages on his getaway and his thrust into Honduras,

Included in this oddly neapri- ed picnic is a group of rullane, political prisoners in search of a country whore they are not "wanted men.

I will come as no surprise to experienced moviegoers that every tree in the jungle con- deals some fresh hazard or hor- For to compete with, but there ato vemo very exciting ECONCE A good adventure regardless,

(ale,

A TRESPASS?

"ALL I DESIRE" will be the at the LEE and GREAT WORLD, The star here

Glenn Ford turns in an almost perfect performance as Sergean! Banion, whose wife in killed by the gang in an attempt upon his life when his enquiries into their activities become danger- ous, Blinded by misery and fury The story here is alight. The he takes his magnificent stand, next change

which he is helped by a here is a rodeo-star whose wife in tries to persuade him to give up maimed "moll", a part played Is Berbara Stanwyck in an un- his dangerous occupation while with, considering her earlier at- sympathetic but rewarding part little that is almost a direct trespass surprisingly IN sill on top, both of his talament.

in polish, except the lighter on the Bette Davia preserves. career and his horse.

Gloria moments,

pretty

Mixs Stanwyck is, of course, a Grahame.

vory good actress and quite at ease in her part which is more than I was while watching it.

The love story isn't, but it does add laughs if not beauty. And even if the end is easily predictable the route taken to get there is he

11.201 sensational

Tyrone Power's performance is dis- tinctive enough to main- tain interest in this grim fable of the British Raj.

There is also the comely, it stolid, Michael sonewhat Hennie. This flm is showing at the ROXY and BROADWAY.

If, as is threatened, it comes off within the next few days it will be replaced by a film of a gentle nature which i enjoyed much but many do not agree with me, "RETURN TO PARADISE."

very

The other marathon runner, at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY, "EASY TO LOVE,"

before 1 thought it would and has been replaced by "GIVE A GIRL A BREAK".

Esther Willians'

Anished

OUT OF FOCUS

They become estranged and the cowboy turns to the super- if rather more obvious, Delai. charms of another girl, until one day he has to watch a former bronce-buster, reduced to work- ing the arena as a clown, killed by a vicious Brahma Bull.

As it is u prospect that must have presented itself to him before, it has an astonishingly acute effect on our hero who retires as quickly as he can with dignity back to the protection of the woman whom he can rely upon to forbid any further Hiski.

REMARKABLY TRUE

The KING'S and PRINCESS ore showing Cecil B. de Mille's "CLEOPATRA" now that "THE RED BERET" has passed on its successful way.

Although it is only a small exaggeration to wonder whether This technicolour musical this version of the ill-famed starts off with the advantage of drama was actually aimed at the having an original iden behind me of the Pharoahs, there is its plot. Unfortunately this remarkable truth in the claim becomes so befuddled in non- made by the advertisement "the stop choreography that It Mightiest Spectacle the World

rambles a bit out of focus.

Has Ever Seen".

by

This is a very shocking alm. It is impressive to an appalling degree it is produced to hor- rify ned succeeds, mainly cause it is so well and convin- cingly done.

bc-

It exposes in gruesome detail the mode of life of a sub-human being, not usually more than hinted at in the cinema. Let me you not to take your beg children.

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Not that it isn't well execut- find Miss cil, and if I do not Stanwyck personable I must re- member that most people do- it is the story I cannot No; sympathise with.

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Admission At Usual Prices too No child is

young to of this prodigil wife? escape the impact of horror hete

Bolling Surely, if it is to be presen: od nothing is spared. coffee is lung in a girl's face at all, it should be an honest But und she is led screaming away forgive and forget drama. to a doctor days later she the Inaistenca on proving this to tears away the bundage and be a "good" woman, who has for the full horror of his ten yours been skidaddling with a second shows who did it.

rate uctress, having discarded achievement to the human beast mother man and as

her husband and family!

This cannot be called enter- tainment but, whatever it is, it is most effective and affecting.

ROYAL TOUR FILM

Sho returns at the secret in- vitation of her youngest daughter to watch a school play and deliberately charms them into accepting her once more sa wile and mother. All right, good tuck to her,

The EMPIRE and MAJESTIC are now showing the Associated British-Pathe film of the Royal

But her former friend' '(I Tour, a technicolour commentary nearly slipped into the pitfall of progres the word 'lover') returns, and the triumphant The scheme of the thing is

There is a magnificence that on

more through the West Indies. Fil, upsets the applecart. roughly the competition between seems to be absent in three girls for the starring role modern works. The reen Tonga and New Zealand. In ono of those claborate teems with detail and bubbles Broadway productions only over with intensity of feeling. possible on the silver screen-

and a wide one at that.

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A cynic might consider this a Very well presented, it is good thing for the family; but estonishingly topical, in fact there's more to come. During a As all old pictures it has almost too much so, as it can scuffle with our heroine he is He moments of supreme absurdity only be a story without an end-

survives in order to tell every- melodrama, particularly ing so far. But it is a story we shot, accidently of course. The unusual twist is that all and

body that she is “good” and the

down nhas, as a Alm, been very cleverly family settles three are equally attractive and evident in the love scones, and have all been waiting for and

to live 19 thent something in talented in the eyes of the yet

happily ever after, heaven help them. I am willing to accept management, and nature has to Claudette Colbert's performance put together. intervene in a faintly impertinent that holds a much more subilety

all this as quite feasible, and object to nothing but the rosy manner before theto my way and strength than Vivien Leigh's of thinking-wrong dancer is porcelain figurine which we allowed to assume the role. - could refresh our memories with

hue that is superimposed on to this squalid tale.. Just a week or two ago.

+

Marge and Gower Champion and Dobble Reynolds have the

I am aware that this is partly principal parts and the third due to Shaw's drawing of the competitor is recruit from character, my the bud of this Broadway called Helen Wood, a mature wetnan now gncing the dancer of grace and personality, scron.

particularly

the ballet sequence.

John Wayne, as "HONDO", strides across the screens of the

However, if a nice melodrama QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA at the moment and will continue is to your taste, here it is.. and of chap his journey for some little while, Richard Carlson seemed a nice convinced it is certain, And a hot journey, steady sort it is bound to be, located, as it Maureen O'Sullivan

of Toust one member of her is, in the Mexican Desert,

judience that, as the village would have I have. also 'ween both Mica

Sparkling Doris Day will visit tehoolteacher, the Leigh's Cleopatras on the London

these cinemas in "CALAMITY made him the better mate. Stago and admit that, under Sir

JANE when "HONDO" is Laurence Olivier's direction, she

finished She hauls Howard I love dancing in films myself, has achieved a weight and a Keel along with her as Wild but here it is rather too un-

of femme fatale in the Bill Hickok. Aura relieved. Everybody does it and heavier play; but there

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The next change will see the Donald - Doris is even more lovely talking I longed for a really good singer. never quite the mystery. the

Mind you, they all put over cunning and scherming, the all than usual in this sketch of O'Connor back together again

depth of Miss Colbert's,

In "FRANCIS COVERS THE a gun-toting tomboy whore Is and congs but that, of course,

feminine heart languishes for BIG TOWN." I'll tell you more something else again There is portrayal,

love of what turns out to be when I've seen it, not that it'll plenty of gaiety and, as we

And for shoer spectacle, the the wrong man.

like all matter much because, have come to expect from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studioe, little show produced at the clap

think that this le one of slightly slapstick comedies, you well-staged numbers, but no of a hand for Anthony's benefit

most amusing filma tocar other take them striking tunes. Nothing that makes some musicals Book a Doris

Hour

It's date, but it still has the hourt better leave them. could be considered in any way little like Amateur

captivating caper and full of warming friendliness of all her. a hit song!

food for speculation on the roles. The standard of dancing is value of the third dimanajon. very high and this is particularly at

so in the case of the Champions, 2 GG IN A HIGH WIND'

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