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KINGS

BOB HOPE

MORNING SHOW

TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M.

HEDY LAMARR in

"MY FAVOURITE SPY"

A Paramount Comedy

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Stalag 17

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1954,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE? CAN O YOU HEAR ME CÂN DU UNDERSTAND MET ARE

YOU FROM EARTH

DID THIS LUMP BREAK OFF FROM EARTH EONS AGO ↑ DD YOUR ANCESTORS SURVIVE ADAPT THEMSELVES TO THE STA HERE!

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

MAYBE THEY CAN'T TALK--IN ANY LANGUAGE, BUT THEY

YES,TRATIONS A CLOSE SHAVE, WASN'T

24. 3.15. 7.30 & 1920 pm.

ARE INTELLIGENT --AND KIND.

THIS ONE

SAVED ME FROM THAT METEOR.

2-27

FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING

The best news of the week

that "THREE YOUNG TEXANS," cur.

is

By MARGARET BRUCE

rently showing at the underline the tense situation in Ann Blyth, Robert Taylor and

the background and the stark ROXY and BROADWAY,

is to be followed by "HOW ness of the prisoners' lives.

TO MARRY A MILLION. AIRE." A confection of a film. 11. stara Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable as fortune hunters.

IN THE MUD

is

Stewart Granger.

doesn't amount to Macdonald

much.

Carey is the soft-

hearted Attorney.

*FRANCIS COVERS BIG TOWN" will follow Francia being a talking mule of the other

THE

uh-

In the "good old days" of this

ha film New England bridles the not unmixed pleasure of and the upholder Joining their husbands on two side of the conversation, Donakl I don't think it is or three

around Connor. year cruises

funny but there аге South Seas, very the Horn to the

(Well, it seems like two or thousands who do three years to the at any rate).

Miss Blyth

picturegoer

Taylor

WORTH RESTRAINT

"CRY OF THE HUNTED"

Showing currently

at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY. It is the sort of film that I, quite frankly, loathe. A man hunt in Lauren Bacall is the the most depending detail il man from

and Mr "brains" the trio and tells the story of

of

the bayu swamps of Louisiana are lossed around on the studio

The QUEEN'S and ALHAM- she ronts an expensive

interminably who is imprisoned and refuses lank

until they BRA are showing "MASTER Mr Granger (Mr OF BALLANTRAE." In the belief to divulge information relating come nerosa

I have pent-house

provide both to other members of his gang. Taylor's renegade brother) tuk- written a great deal on this m that it will

ing his case and some very high owing to its various postpone- the bait and the fishing-

This part is played with un- Jinks with Betta St. John on n ments, so I will not labour the

realism

Vittorio Paclile by grounds for their purpose, cmny

Jet Granger, point any mare: but which is summed up in Gassman. Barry Sullivan is the being Ann's ex-boy friend, the remind you that I reeminen: at

policeman who follows him when he escapes after a motor situation hae is tensonese, the A visit to A necident during

District Attorney and they meet where the prisonca's wife still ilves, in the swamp.

the title.

"HOW TO MARRY MILLIONAIRE" tells you the plot as well-the joy of the picture lies in the acting-and looks of the Three stars. Marilyn Mon- star-value-a has sparkling quality-far out- shining the other two al though Lauren Bacall is, in my opinion, by far the best looking.

roo

The wife knocks

.Island,

Mr

A that doesn't fuifli Its Promise, or live up to the star's namus. After scoing "THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS" and the detoc- now this I shall forever think tive out and the pair escape, of Ann Blyth looking out to sea n wind but when he revives Mr Sullivan (or studio tank) with

blowing through hor follows them deeper and deeper machine

After into the mire.

Aght, in hair. cluding the savage French foot nighting, both

crippled enough to cease being hunter and hunted as they have

together fight desperately survival.

Are

to for

A

This is a film to put yout I said I loathed it, which is Full of quite true. But it is a wonder- in a good mood.

exciting melodrama and humour, the little fable is fully beautifully acted, the three a such must be admired, main personalities working powerful hell-broth of violence and sordidity with quile a dusti together surprisingly well

of sex. Depressing to a degree as a team.

it is at the same time an exeit- ing chase, whose

backgrounds

The men in their lives ure of eerie bayou are a tremendous Camerun Mitchell, Rory Cal- asset. houn, David Wayne and Willam

What must be assumed to be Powell. The settings and ward- robes are luscious woman's a happy ending la contrived by fim that men should like. It's letting the policeman bring his a nice change anyway to have man back alive, He serves his

a guy theme on Cinemascope's sentence, gives the information that was required and then re- super-wide screen.

Aurns to his wife and son-in the mud!

BEST EVER MADE

Barry Sullivan gives another of his first class, polished per- *STALAG 17 (KING'S, formances, but we are lucky to PRINCESS and EMPIRE) must find in Vittorio Gassman an surely be the best Prisomer of actor as opposed to a film star. War film ever made. And the His characterisation, choice is wide; apart from the contrary influences of good and quantity of

films inspired by bad in the fugitive, are subtly these sufferings, the quality of stressed throughout. He makes many is superfine. (You

it much more than just another thriller.

ber "THE WOODEN MO

been that

for example). But I don't re-

have member any that have primarily comedies,

and have also malotained the dramu, the utmosphere and told the in- evitable story of altempts at escupe ending in some une or two,

Success

for

It is this very ability to laugh, to wring humour out of the grim situation that makes this particular picture touching and (1 feel certain) real,

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"STALAG 17" was one of the most notorious of the Geaman Prisoner of War comps during World Wor 11 and the exact bleak and sombre setting is the block where the captured ser geants of the United States Air Corps are housed,

ALMOST A ROUTINE

the

Joel

"SHOOT FIRST." with McCren and Evelyn Keyes, aup- ported by Herbert Lom, Marius Goring and Roland Culver, is a United States Artists Quota fim which will be shown next at these cinemas.

TABLE IS ROUND

"KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE" is also booked for the CAPITOL und LIBERTY in Cinemascope. The best descrip- tion I have heard of it is 11 gigantle comic strip" and it has an equal fascination with this

simplified form of reading.

It is, in fact, supremely easy to watch and get carried along by the fictional figurca who our eyes to the dance before clivector' tuno- say fictional because it is quite certain that resemblance 10 King Arthur and his knigais can only

be coincidental (Oh, it's there;

their table is round

1724*

us good cinema entertainment and worth restraining ang pre- judice you may feel about Errol Flynn.

At any rate it is very much better than the lm that is due to follow !! "THE EDDIE CANTOR STORY." Pil welle about this next week, because it is planned to keep **THL MASTER OF BALLANTRAE” on for at least ten days.

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However, dise fans may like to know that Capitel have recording from the sound track EDDIE CANTOR of "THE STORY" which is compiled into an Eddie Cantor Song Albun, and certainly any fault in this picture does not lie in the sound track.

POOR REDSKINS

The first Cinemascope picturs about the "Frontier is on the *THE way now-it is Warner's

starring iuy COMMAND" Madison and Joan Weldon. remain convinced that Cinema- over the business in the way Talkies" scope will soon take (lid, but until that day It is Robert Taylor continues hts difficult to understand why such Indian Summer as Sir Launcelot

paltry presentation has been

into

now this expensive put who has-as you are aware

medium. sly prank or two with Gu.nevere

On the other hand local Alm when Arthur's back is turned. I

that have always, in this respect,

fans should be delighted

action has been found him a bewildering figure

their taste for so promptly pandered to. as an example of the pure and

of knighthood. And it must be admitted that shining flower However, his temptation the back drop difficulties of Bevere from Ava Gardner's Cinemascope have been largely Juscious yes, succulent- overcome by the subject matter Guinevere.

of this film,

*

With the rolling Western Outstandingly the best per- plalas at the cameraman's com- formance is Mel Ferrer's King mand, the audience doesn't stub Arthur. He appears to have lost its toes on the end of the set in some of the nervous inhibition the outdoor scenes. And then that restrained his performance there another Dimitr! Tiomkia as the crippled dancer in "LILI," musical score, so that fulfils and to have regained the pulse. dagh and savoir faire that was

apparent

"SCARA- in

So

almost every requirement of a Western locale, doesn't it? MOUCHE." It must be that he There is n

2 story too! Captain is happier in costume panta Robert MacClaw (Guy Madison) he certainly seems more al casa is an Army doctor who is forced In them than most actor, and to take command of a Cavalry looks charming beyond words. Troop that la conveying a wagon

hostile trab through

Indian It's an entrancing entertain- country. an American Lieutenant-Colonel, ment. To my taste it fulls every

Ho proves мого than ro- played by Joel McCres, who requirement for cinema enter- sourceful, which openk up a

He tainment. rents a shoot in Dorset

for A mistakes

A remarkably thrilling and unusual spy story, it concerns

Д

stranger

poacher and lets him have a The LEE and GREAT pox with small pox with care-

Is

now future for him because he would inspire no confidence as a medico, mixing up chicken round of buckshot.

When he discovers that the WORLD have a very worthless Icse ibandon.

Western showing now. Except, man is dead, he believes that he

Joan Weldon is an extremely and hides the perhaps, that the star, Ronald has killed him body. However, it is discovered Reagan always a rellable beautiful girl with a tendency and Mr MoCrea finds that he is netor. In "LAW AND ORDER" to nurse everyone in sight and With amazing realism a rough involved in International_es-

he is a UB, Marshal trying hard a considerable help to the hero and bawdy humour permeates pionage and is on the run from to retire to the quiet fe or in his capacity as doctor, this grim abode. I armly state both police and spies, The X leon a ranch.

what one assumes is the quiet also commanding officer. "reallat” because I feel

cilmax sure citing

takes place in

She spreads the discase - to However, Westerners being that without the suggested Madame Tussund's wax museum

cunning but what they are, there's a lot of the enemy in a

Rossing laughter no prisoner could have almost a routine.

This nauseating manner by rome through sane from his Evelyn Keyes plays the part shootin' to be done first.

grubby litle bits of achieved but I about of the experience.

Colonel's sympathetic is successfully wife who becomes maddeningly am not yet convinced that the bandage. Ught Poor Indians; I involved in the danger with right people got hit all the time. was on their side throughout. her husband.

The plot has nothing unusual or noteworthy in it. William Holden is the primo spy suspect when suspicions are aroused by what they all consider to be a foolproof plan for eschps being discovered,

The SUCCCESOT to "SHOOT FIRST"

OLD THEME

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The most exciting Cinema- scopo news is that Walt Disney "EVERY MINUTE COUNTS," has started production on the THE MINIVER the next showing, is one of the first Donald Duck cartoon. STORY." This is another very better films of its type. It's Mr Holden is in charge of old film and one which should the old thing about a man come nearly all the rackets (and never have been made in the demned

circumstantial A film I look forward to very certainly all the small pleasures) first place. Full of the most evidence only for a murder he much is a bit of nonsense. In the camp and his ability. to

charming personalities it WEH for himself auch achievo patkotle treat from the captors ke

originated purely for sety

П

tho

on

didn't commit.

and

as a fresh egg, leads everyone AND THE ROqugis it is 1 origin) entirely Actional "Defence Al- we will see the remarkable

to suppose that he can be up to particular

no good.

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history about the Roman Em- The minutes that count o piro. It's called "THE SIGN much are at the disposal of an OF THE PAGAN" and in it MINIVER" was almost torney who is prepared to sight of Jeff Chandler ns the most delightful flm made snertice his practice, all his high-ranking officer in the Ro Finally Don Taylor, as a and an imposible target to money and the rather superfleis man Army fighting as with the

found Since they

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of his fiances on bokaif strength of u Legion. affection

against Lieutenant, is brought into the follow.

the hordes of Attilla thẹ. Hun. barracks where he tells of an necessary to kill doar Mrs of his silent. ammunition

he doesn't find train he

Incidentally has Miniver off, what a shame it is

It brings to the screen once managed to destroy en route to that they are unable to let her the essential clue until the first

fust prison." As a result he is con- rest in peace

the beautiful ballerina anal minute, for the record, more

Ludmilla Teherina, her firet demned as a coboteur,

Yes, it's one of those!

TALES OF But there really is moslary ploture since and suspense and it is noted HOFFMANTI realism to be

comes down off hor by dew points for a dramatle role: Free Ambuljp Terena Wright, as the a Roman Princess which I think. · Emergency - man. There's not a new twist in Micu release that will be con- condemned man's wife 1 with may be a bad mistake, but a

there? And yet the pre- pentation, which could be no, in to the Colony, sour. It's

Well, of course, Holden un-

moaks the trus villain and at

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VALIANT" is another

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