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KING'S PRINCESS

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

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

FINAL

TO-DAY

You Know What Sallors Are

Akim TAMIROFF Donald SINDEN SarahLAWSON Naunton WAYNE ...and.........ail the nice girls!

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SUNDAY

MORNING

KINGS

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1954.

FILMS CURRENT AND

A musical comedy; a west-

orn, a British comedy, Hultry romance,

魏

crime

By JANE ROBERTS

thriller, an adventuro story personating

4

character

acta on he various

being the

COMING

und something specially for knew!

The forebien ship, bearing struggle to raise the money to lo

the

on

to

Huston.

and

Ling of "YOU KNOW WHAT seret of the godgel is wornedole), Robert Newich and David saw it in England last year. I've

Morrow

EMPIRE will show

Brian.

from him, the girls are provided SAILORS ARE" today. To that's how they get inth be the picture, Good fun Гот they should starting "ARROWHEAD", everyone.

CHALLENGING NAMES The "ARROWHEAD"

"ARROWHEAD" is a westcm same time, with "ALADDIN and has three challenging names

Jove Hending Palance whom you either

wt

the

thrown

DET

10

AND THIS LAMP" finishing hending the east. There's Jack ever the list are co-pitikime of Joseph Conrad's - but

"WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS" atarled life as "THE ASPHALT JUNGLE" much more pro- vocative title I think. the playbil

the nd- Whatever the title, behind-the-scenes fective can certainly be applied one of its alors - Martyn Aport Monroel performers.

With hes are Sterling Chinese audiences they're Donald Sinden as radar adviser, pay

off for Agraria. The from

everything'sco Hayden, Louis Calhefn Bhat, there to choose front takes

centrated on the various burns. Jean Hnge. The director is the over the holiday. And while President of the country is

board ORT passenger

and This is for you if you like man who can usually be relled most of us are hoping for a Siren's obvious reluctance to Variety shows.

something produce

bag John doulit Bnb day, no

the euch on the subjeef of the new

What n cast for "THE HIGH torting out of the Cinema owners are invoking piece of equipment uses his

AND THE MIGHT" John the aid of the Rain God to suspicions.

As I believe I mentioned pre- It's all very nicely done, but Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine

I voty much enjoyed swell the Box Olice coffers!

arrives In when he

Agrari, Day, Robert Stuck. Jan Sterling viously.

when i The KING'S and PRIN- Siden is a "free" explive. Th Phil Harris Un a very serious LAUGHING ANNE"

happy whliz The CESS have their last show keep him

never been among those staunch better admirers of Margaret Lockwood I can't think of any way of sketching the characters who maintain that her acting of them play then by ability ranks with such topliners поли

Eileen Herlle and Cella quoting from the Press Book:

"LAUGHING but in A Trans-Orich Pacific Air- Johnson

takes floxa

from ANNE was surprized to ind plane

the that currying the

have Bhe seemed Honolulu airport

bizarre group by tute,

of people developed suddenly. Inost

It's a very melodramatic story Dan Roman (Joly Wayne) who something seems to stop

in cheap sentiment has used up his nine lives and wallowing

time it looks like going on ters, Sally McKee every

who lived in a

Laughing Anne was no saint, world of whistles; Nell Bucker.

in the 1880s, thai Karen Sharpe) still burning and back

known in WAS Moy laugh of hers with honeymoon fever:

Yet har east of Suez. Holst (Claire Trevor) strictly a every night-time woman; Ken Childs only a few years before she had col- been the toast of Paris; the idol

elegant, radish

night wives: of the (David Brian) a wealthy lector of other men's and Lydia Rice (Laraine Day) haunt where she sang. Debonair who is as low as high society Jom Farrell was her lover

the heavyweight challenger of the famous knuckle-fighter John The story covers the period

for the Champion- of 12 hour it takes for the L. Sullivan

Farrell never met Sullivan -- aircraft to fly from Honolulu to ship of the World. Sus Francisco and the emphasis

the eronks who tried to fix the the characters of

In the An unusual note is struck by Is

fight axei Jem instead.

free-for-all batile. showing Palance in contrasting passengers and crew.

sframbles of We see them first, al

the Farrell's hands were so badly dress-as on eduented Indian in

they hurt that Ame knew he would the garb of the white man and start of the journey, as then,

to point up his dust per- world ike the work to think never fight again. Farrell drifted

and of them. Paint sonality

Anne. there's true nature--leading his

kli isn't as it appears on the him was the faithful Laughing

The tension surface.

broken

Forrest Tucker is Jem - not "LAUGHING ANNE" ut against his detested teachers.

ift for of the passengers only one An outdoor role always suits by

are his hands annel this

almost they're but Charlton Heston better than threatening

and fighting. Kun

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Sweeps the Screen with Apache fury!

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PICTURE

PRINCESS

CHARLTON HESTON ARROWHEAD

· Merang

Jack Palance Katy Jurado Brian Keith Mary Sinclair

W 3eruen ar 3 D

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Predeced by Nai Hau

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MARILYN MONROE

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M. M-G-M's Tochnicolor Production

"LOVE MELVIN"

with Debbie Roynolds.

KING'S and after "ARROWHEAD".

todny. "SKY COMMANDO"

or loathe, Charlton Eleston, whoa anel THE LAST POSSE" been recti here in so many varied

for scheduled

the rules lately, and there's Katy PRINCESS Jurado the Mexican setres who was part of Gary Cooper's past it

NOON" HIGH "Let's

them iz turn. At the QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA "NEW I don't know what Jack Palance's FACES" is on and after weitry is, but in war paint and l:Caddress he makes one that the programme will Apache

of the must convincing "white" HIGH Red Indians I've seen.

Not a A Sympathetic une is he in "In fact the untrustwo thi

thiness of every nem- untrus ber of

of the Apuche tribe is what trying to Chariton Heston prove

change to "THE AND THE MIGHTY"

The picture that takes over from "ROCKET MAN at the ROXY and BROAD WAY is a romantic extra vaganza exiled "PRINCESS OF THE NILE" and at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY You can see "WHILE THE CITY SLEEFS",

to the U.S. Cavalry all mough the picture.

War

Is starbering)

1JAD

con RC.

the

As the gets

Continuing round the first for when he reverte to his under way though, it's obvious to the Eastern Sens

tribb

the

theatres.

HOOVER

that

with

A

from

and with

should be following it with drawing-room aunosphere and quickly on the heels of this entirely useless and his temper

some with long sideboards, a jauntily

crisis

are

The picture's In CinemaScope and once again the background! music is in the capable hands of Dimitri Tiomkin

we litt

1

Wundet) Corey

alone

with

while

FLIGHT NURSE "FLIGHT NURSE" deals with

for the the duties and leisure hours of

girls who cared

01

the flying am- bulances evacuating them from wounded

Кола

the

Ni mun of follows another-one due a film that was

sick in mind and body. weeks back but didn't cocked sluch hat and a gun the engines calches tire and the and moods are those of

Anne tries to leave him for materialise then, "FLIGHT slang at his hip he's a far more pilot's nerves are proved to be

the Wendell Corey and there's an romantic gure than in a lounge unsteady. Robert Stack Is NURSE".

idyllic interlude on his trading pilot. suit. Chinese readers will be

He's " scout in "ARROW- If you've read the novel by schooner.

you'll know

Anne was born under a But glad to know that the LEE READ" at the "rub two sticks Ernest K. Gann

are togethe" type, but a willy fellow what follows and if you haven't tragic stor and at the end of the KIN GREAT WORLD

for brought up by the Apaches after I won't spoil your fun by telling film catering exclusively

who comes out of the sailing his ship them, with a Chinese pic they'd murdered his parents and you

As incident well and who lets the Anne's young son, Davy, as his hating them a fiercely

I confers Was companion. ture until the end of next Toriano Jack Palance) loathes side down.

All these stars usually have blowing my nose furiously at week, when the change will him.

end of this film 1 can't understand why the something to after-we hardly the be to "THE GLASS WEB".

Amertcun Army is

ever get a dal performance from mentally awarding full marks aften mor Now let's look at these shown

any of them-and as in "THE to the three stars for keeping In more detail.

depicted employing these scouts

AND THE MIGHTY

me to intent on the screen for for their detailed knowledge and HIGH

It's n

un hour and a half. To those of you who've insight into the red man's mind they have plenty to do already

"YOU Scen

most KNOW

which I think WHAT SAILORS

ARE" I'd and then in nine cases out of picture in

the (except

light say go and see it if you're ten disregarding their counsel. people

fans) wil It's Charlton Heston's mis entertainment only English (or irish, or Scols, or Welsh) zd den't mind a Aly fortune and that of the many find something.

who Cavalrymen dig at the pomposity that's U.S. sometimes to be found in the ambushed as a result-to be dis, higher ranks of the Navy.

believed

in "ARROWHEAD In actual fact, unlike many and not until the last reel is his British comedies, this one true worth appreciated.

The particular nurse whose should amuse almost everyone, It takes almost as long for him

adventures we follow is Joan The humpur isn't so exclusively to set the girl tool

Continuing their short rest Leslie, and in quite a different insular. There are

at Katy Jurado is, needless to from CinemaScope pletures, the role from the one the plays in there's pretty girls whose appeal-to

gir! he gets.

BROADWAY have "LAUGHING ANNE,” Al- ROXY and the male sex anyway-is fairly though there's an understanding "PRINCESS OF THE NILE" in Forrest Tucker to provide the universal and it's in Techni of sorts

you start love interest. between them, her D. And

As Technical Adviser on this Apache blood is naturally in the thumbing through your notebook

lo Brd at which The old

of

of the new picture, to make sure they got service adage that way a permanent attachment, to any inanimate object should be And

we're anyway, we'r led to super excellent techniques I'm all the details right, was

4th Air Intentions referring to, let me admit that Chief Nurse of the painted (anything moving being understand that her automatically salutable), starts are not strictly honourable. The I've tricked you and that it's Force-Captain Lillian Kinkela. the ball rolling in "YOU KNOW Nice Girl is Mary Sinclair.

Just another name for plain, old who has down 425 trips during WHAT SAILORS ARE". After Like "YOU KNOW WHAT fashioned, didinary vision,

her career with the Army. the set- a rather hectic night out, Donald SAILORS ARE it's in Techni-

Egypt, A.D. 1240, is Sinden

the and two other young colour.

ting for this exotic extravaganza, "THE GLASS WEB"

Paget Debri willi Naval officers fix a pawnbroker's

As the crime thriller centred about in Shalimar of the Nile elevision Princess with the

programite

called sign, together

skeleton

for half the time and Tours the Crime of the Week". of an old prom, to one of the ships in the dockyard,

Dancer for the other half.

Kathleen Hughes is the star

with this, runs a an uprising blackmailing business

colour.

say, hot the

ALADDIN TALE

I always feel that Aladdin falcs should always be shown Not only in the cold light of at Christmas-I suppose it's be-

EXOTIC EXTRAVAGANZA

before

Polities come somewhere into

day does the ship turn out to cause of their pantomime con- tie story, with Shalimar trying of the show, but not

nico

on

be

П foreigner, but Chustastic

wickler brush

we've got en- neelion. However,

showing of a the last оп

to

in

this flim

fre

spite

The

bring about

.♫

and

fot of stealthy creep-

the

content

little

on the

beautiful and bold -as

mid board has risen before the early summer "ALADDIN AND His painst the ruler of the city o dde. Her two victims are get- Halwan on the Nile. Michael ng almost to saturation point Rennie dew and given the Inanimate LAMP" at the EMPIRE today-

(it's a pity to have to whes Kathleen is found mur. It's Walter Wanger produc-

Is the object the routine treatment.

dered. Whodunit? trained on Glasses are

the tion (Joan Bennett's husband hiss such a nice villain)

leader of a Bedouin,tribe who

incont to You're not

teci has taken over Halwan, and the "thing" from many points of remember?) in Cinecolour.

The Princess Jasmine. vantage and as most of the

hero who canters to the rescue sorry for her obviously, because

publicity the the of (from the title) the op is Jeffrey Hunter-son of

captions characters

"she's cute as a kiden....with allowing for the exaggeration parent prominence of Aladdin,

Baghdad, IN, AND HIS poisoned claws! Pauls was bad, As in permitted a comedy, very true seems to be the centret charac Caliph of to life, they behave in the nil ter in the fim. At least, her LAMI

than that too human wiy we'd expect. name is better known

ing in

out of the palace (capital 5" please note) and before the villain is BORN TO BE MURDERED Not having the slightest idea of the player of Aladdin.

goes on It's our horoine of "DRUMB vanquished and the hero Your cholec of suspects in- what the new gadget is, each

cluster Edward G. Robinson and one feigns complete familiarity OF TAHITI Patricia Moding. (Cheers!) is victorious.

The

who

Henry (this with it.

young pickpocket

I must say Debra Paget makes John Forsytho And what of Donald Sinden? aspires to her hand and

very luscious princess and/or Fonda-isht young man, of "ES- her through Rave

CAPE FROM FORT BRAVO"). dancer. As the Victorian novelists would pursues

chambers band "imagine his discomfiture!" markets, torture His disconfort is increased by palace gardens is John Sande.

closer in even

As in "YOU KNOW WHAT being placed proximity to the object which SAILORS ARE there. B

to keep How

has reacfred The Bro- sundry palace beau

when the portions of

· Μιονίας secret your interest wenpan-he's posted to the plot rests for foreign ship.

there's a wicked Brinco to b′′ | All this Introduction to the dealt with by the denia of the adventures that befall Sinden is Lamp. Prince most amusingly put over, I saw respectively Jolie Bohnice the shadowy forms of several Charles Horvath. friends behind his slightly.

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