1954-08-07 — Page 2

Page

SEE VILMS Conona presente MARTERY CAROL.• ANNYC JE

PIERAN BRÄSSKIN • MAROKI, DALIO MARIANNE OSWALD SEEKOR BOGIAME

THE LOVERS

OF VERONE

(LES AMANTS DE VERONE

Directed by ANDRE CAYATTE

A FRENCH FILM WITH ENGLIU SUNTTTLES

COMING SOON TO

KING'S PRINCESS

•

FINAL TO-DAY

At 2,80, 5.10, 7.20 & 0.38 p.m.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1954,

FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING

two

films

By JANE ROBERTS

...

minded man and Alela, played During the week-end and

by Jeat Dands, is certainly, not next week the. EMPIRE is

that. Tre allows hither to bm bringing back

will be as attractive to female Jured into Fanny's grumbling already shown here. "FLAT something of his former glory

soon is deeply in debt. TOP" is on today and it'll comes when a wealthy cattle audiences as Mile: Lebeau is to prees and very

rancher, played by Charles the melas.

Both of them have boers be followed by "THE Bickford, organises pease Las It's a story with plenty of GLASS MOUNTAIN".

lynch three men who've rubbed movement in it-you're taken to playing for far too high stakes and have Jost. Unsuccessful The CAPITOL too huis, a him.

Kambing chat in the South of

even in his suicide attempt, Crawford's monumental effort France, to Central Africa (and Alain la the classic "GAS re-issue

to gather his drink-sudden wis very authentic looking Central plantation in French Equatorial

shipped off to together to stop the killing is the Africa It la too-no point d and motivating force behind the im. brekdrops here), and water lather pays his debis

and KING'S AL the

they even Africa as a lorry driver. A good petlom picture this. manege to soliceze PRINCESS they are show-

with, in addition to Broderick siling at Juan-les-Pins.

understanding that he will not Ing "SKY COMMANDO"

Crowford and Charles Bickford

sée Fanny again. Detek (AMBUSH AT and then Broderick Craws John

GAP"') ford and Charles Bickford TOMAHAWK battle it out in "THE LAST Wanda Hendrix. POSSM"".

LIGHT

French AC 2.80, 1.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. SKIPPER OF THE SKIESTII.

SKY COMMANDO

A

COLUMBIA

PICTURE

STARKIRA

DAN DURYEA

costarring

Frances Gifford Touch Commers

Scre Piny by SAMUEL NEWMAN - Produced by SAM KATZMAN · Discled by FRED F. SEARS KING'S THEATRE BOOKING TEL. 25313, 25332

OPENS TO-MORROW

... sheriff has no friends..."

COLOMBIA PICTORES

LAST POSSE

BRODERICK

JOAN

A gripping

scrow story

of the great South

CHARLES

WANDA

CRAWFORD DEREK BICKFORD HENDRIX

Joan thy by 202000 and GOODE SER BLAVETT at KERETA GLINES - Pakoć » AUT DE 10 - Brodé by AZIER SERRER

AIR

CONDITIONED

CAPITOL LIBERTY

"THE HOME OF Metropol foger PICTURES

Tel. 50333 Tel. 73515

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M. ON WIDE ASTROLITE SCREEN

The Masterpiece from M-G-M Your favourite Stars INGRID BERGMAN CHARLES BOYER

with JOSEPH COTTON

in

M-G-M

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.

M-G-M's Technicolor Production

CAPITOL

DEBBIE REYNOLDS

DONALD O'CONNOR in

"I LOVE MELVIN".

LIBERTY

JANE POWELL

FARLEY. GRANGER in "SMALL TOWN

GIRL

At Reduced.. Prices

RITZ

SHOWING TODAY

and

and

NO COY FLUTTERING What I like about most French ims is their realiste attitude to the more natural thanklestations of love. There's no coy #utter- ing round the subject and any of those silly little farves in which tw young people sigh their hearts out on different sides of a decir, are, if made in France at all, made for expert only, I'm sure.

18

by

There are

on

the

DELICATELY DONÉ

It's far too early for Fanny to Madeleine Lebeau, with the innocent face belied by the look ado out of the filth of course, and back she comes again. in her

a gambler eyes, is a

him in his nature. Her expression conveys raising trouble for

gruesome some To follow "THE GLASS

perfectly the knowledge of her new surroundings. ability to capture any man she WED" at the LFE and

It's a delicately done shots & natives greedily slicing wants

sirens off bunks of clephant meat from GREAT WORLD there's u

that the nip-swingtrig constantly paraded before us as a newly kilidà anhnal that made picture called

the Jast word in seductive me feel slightly ill, but I must "L'AVENTURIENE DU

the natives them- melves were beautifully photo- TCHAD", with "BORDER

Innguor look like blatant bar- admit that maids by comparison.

Her affairs with Jean Dunet graphed. RIVER" succeeding it.

The camera manhged to ino the intense sul- "ANNA" is the ROXY

is the uatural outcome of two

attractive people

ple being town capture

of the

country--you BROADWAY's show,

together In the luxury-ludert The controversial parl

South of with Silvam Mangano, and

France with nothing could almost feel the dust and

and consequent usually precliently stated, decopt-

restless- to do but enjoy themselves. the HOOVER's programme ed, and then the more serz nuts

He has

come back from the nos of the plantation workers, is "ROBINSON CRUSOE", business of motives and proetical

Fanny is just the watch needed war restless and determined to followed by 99 RIVER living is explored.

make up for the six years' con- touch off an explosion. And it isn't lack of sensitivity

MORE STETSONS STREET.

French, filtraint-naturally fair game for

"BORDER the part of

More stetsans in lovely Fanny Lacour, a

tinac they're "THE HIGH AND THE makers. For sheer subtlety they typical product of the war. We RIVER"-th

Jock McCrea and MIGHTY", about which I leave us all standing-Americans see nothing of her background, worn by

Pro Armiandariz. hus und English. It's just that they but good breeding is suggesund last week. told you

Jatter last saw the in her

non- appearance and moved into the QUEEN'S deal with the essential things s

much

and don't

brother of more clearly

Cesare Borgia nerisms. und the

ALHAMBRA and bund a tottering skyscraper of

The feeling of Instabilty that lovely Leeresin who tent the managements there are sentiment on the vapings of

FO many people who name to the Aim of that name. "THE adults with adolescent mentally aflets

grew out of their teens as the 's back in his own part of

world In patting on after it

"BORDER ties.

war ended is apparent

lex all the MIAMI STORY".

HIVER"-down Mexico way in A bandit's hideout esBed Zona F's gestures,

COMBUSTIBLE

Libre, Combustible is the word

"That chero-useful Civil Was between the North and the Madeleine these two,

close drawing to a Fanny is not a good propos!- South pretty and Jean Dunet tion for any but a very strong when Joel McCrea tries to buy Brins and ammunition from Armandariz for the Confederate Army.

Most people remember "THE

MOUNTAIN by GLASS

thi music from it. To refresh your the players werd memories, Michal Denison and Dulcle Gray as the young composer and his wife.

The "other woman" he meets Cortese, is Valentina in Italy and Tito. the opera singer fighting for the partisans during the war sequences, is the famous uperatie burtone, Tito Gobbl. He actually was a member of the Italian Resistance Movement and

Gray Dukic

я also Michael Denison's wife in real life.

I'm thinking particularly of the LEE'S new picture "THE AFRICAN ADVENTURESS".

The two stars are both very beautiful people. fentures Lebeau's nearly perfect

The

CINEMASCOPE'S

ADVANCING TECHNIQUES

A demonstration

"GASLIGHT is quite เร advancing techniques of the

ft.

band

who

comes to Joseph Cotton

her

charge

of the

m

jet

rescue

ALS

aircraft to

with featured

the film.

for- Cikfford as a war Francis

with love respondents Duryea's second in command. SHEER ABILITY

13

From

for

much

We

Aa

the

her

The crush he's using 15 18+ motter

million of two dollare stolen from the Union Forces and Armandariz thinks that it be a simple matter to peri Captain Matison ond the Hold

through without going the farmailty of handing aver the ammunition.

the

camera stayed compere, the club dancer,

15

He's reckered without his The CATHAY showed the

girl friend. Yvonne de Carlo, Swedish picture "THE SURF***

though, A determined. girl in during the week, starring Ingrid

little Yvonne and it's she who Bergman and the CAPITOL are

for McCrea-- featuring

this *rly p

actress.

of the tuned with CinemaScope, than saves the day

former single-speaker changing her affection in mid- old

method-and in this it succeed-stream from Armendariz to th but well worth re-visiting.

took place ed, the reason being, of course, southerner. Charles Boyer is with Ingrid CinemaScope

the s the scheming hus-during

week

at the that one track optical isn't near-

AT ONLY 17 Bergman is

ly sufficient to All the drive ROXY Theatre. A month or who attempts to

I was interested to seo, among the Boles de Jurger screen.

I've received on her mad by suggesting that she Iso back I attended $1

DEPTH OF FOCUS

Silvona Mangano's picture really is insane, while the man

of Perspecta

17 is monstration

we

to "ANNA", that she was only passed sound Stereophonic Sound, which vision and extracts from some when she appeared in "BITTER were uscet to RICE". She certainly gave the lo "SKY COMMANDO” we is the method adopted by future releases have something of the same in-

diaw attention to the depth of impression of knowing a great Metro Goldwyn Mayer,

Iceus achieved with the new deal more about life than TOPH gredients as In "FLAT

Warner Brothers and Para- CleumaScope Anamorphic lens.sual for a 17-year-old It's centred around the tough

Cine Films for their

“ANNA" she's A picture that looks a "must" Again in commander, disliked and misub-mount

rather has derstood by his subordinates. CinemaScope

productions; from the short scenes shown worldly miss-or who wins their admiration the latest one is Twentieth from it) is "BROKEN LANCE" ben in her past. It's been lurid the picture draws to a close.

baron potle cattle

ballying her pins by becoming Dan Duryen is the Colonel in Century Fox's contribution with Spencer Tracy as the des-mough for her to try to explate a nun, the changing face of everyone with whom he comes specialising in hospital work.

Vitoria Gassman in the man in contact his sons included. things.

Ono scene he plays with his she was Infatuated with before The first half of the feature

eldest

ing to the hospital son, Richard Widmark, going

and it's consisted of a side by side com-

Ithe scents from part of her parison of 4-track, high fidelity especially impressed me.

and to In which she was a night

life stereophonic

tense, sound was extremely magnetic

that give her the still. and 1-track optical sound and preserve

for dancing and opportunity it was most effective,

There was no panning from singing that fascinating number Durry! F. Zanuck, Fox Fle-

record's tures Vice-President in charge face to face as would have been "Annatho

catch the expres-sale here for some time. of Production (looking most un- necessary to

been photo in front of the stons if it had

Poor Gassman is once again a comfortable

tor

old the co

35 heel.

but judging from camera) explained that his metre Alm. Incidentally, if number of pictures he's been studio had pioneered Cinema-

it's a most successful 71 whatever part he apponis Scope and that now it was a you're interested in Bgures, the he scems right. He

always year · old it was time to stand "wide screen" width to helght profession.

ratio is 1.85 to 1 and Cinema-

for manages to convey the impres back and take stock.

The background music sdsun of having studied the We were treated to a tash- Scope's 2.50 to 1.

"ANNA" is by the composer of

"CLASS MOUNTAIN" From the "BROKEN LANCE" the character from every possibl back to the old single speaker angle and to have Kol cam-method of sound production, extracts I'd say that Riobard score-Nino Rotar

Based qa Dubiel Defoe's pletely inside it.

making it

it appear as though Widmark's acting technique has I'm talking about the

In the scene famous book, "THE ADVEN post every voice come from a single pist advanced,

ROBINSON CHALL THE KING'S MEN spot on the screen, then to the with Tracy he more than beld TURES

Broderick Crawford, naturally. better single magnetle speaker his own-a, dificult feat with an CRUSOE" will be starting to-

the at

HOOVER Until his vivid portrayal of the the voices, however; still

Theatre. the actual wily politician in that pleture, emanating from one place and actor of Spencer Tracy's stature. morrow

Going back to lus apearance in "B" pictures Anally to the full blast of mechanics of the film, the clear- The story of how this fabulous as the leader of the bad men speakers all over the screen. waso's noteworthy,

merdir For this they used a military ness of background figures was character lived for 28 years on a but for his friend Friday and a routine. But since

then, any-band, a train and a fight of lot readily apparent-mountains 20 desert island completely alone

miles away from the Comor thing he appears in causes m-aircraft. Toning things down a

almost every boy's education. bit after that, Albert Newman showing up perfectly and even ship's dog has become part of He's a sherriff in "THE LAST put that excellent orchestra he at the sides of the screen there The excitement has survived POSSE". Once a strong man,

conducts through their paces was a sharpness one would not since 1719 when it was first strong drink has been his down- with Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the have expected. We've got used written.

to these improvements now, to The two main characters In fall and the very town to which Flowers. he's been instrumental in bring The demonstration's object that to have them pointed out the ploture Crusoe and Friday ing law and order has turned on was to show how much better anew was refreshing.

are played by Dan O'Herlihy JANË ROBERTS and Jemes Fernandez. him. His chatice -to

regain is Stereophonic sound, com-

LAST And

to "THE POSSE."

Broderick Crawford, let me

of mit at the oujeet, is one my favourites. Not for looks di acting for sheer course, but ability.

terest.

TO-DAY

ONLY

STAR

Pres. 50115

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

SUNDAY

MORNING

'EXCITING ROMANCE! ≤ GLORIOUS MUSIC!

GARANZ

700 A SIDNEY BUCHMAN PRODUCTION

“A SONG TO REMEMBER” Starring Paul MUNI » Morle OBERON • Corne! WILDE

Color by Trubnicolor —- A Columbia. Raprint .......

DRI

NTAL.

SHOWING ~TO-DAY 2,305,307,30 &

Sound Flo

Scre

KING'S

been on

the

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

SPECIAL TIMES TO-DAY

2.30, 5.10. 7.20 & 9.40 p.m. 2.30, 520, 7.20 à 9.40 10.

† boa noller movi

CINEMASCOPE

AYTREOPHONG

TAY HIGH AND THE MIGHT

[WARNICI

JOHN WAYNE CLAIRE TREVOR LARAINT DAY ROBERT SLACK JAN STERLING PHIL HARRIS ROBERI NIWION DAVID BRIAN

• TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS •

At 11.30 a.m.

DUEEN'S

5 SHOWS

Extra Performance

"The High-and the

Mighty"

ALHAMBRA

In Technicolor "SONS OF THE MUSKETEERS"

Corne! Wilde Maureen O'Hara At Reduced Prices!

ROX Y & BROADWAY

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. The Stars of INTERNATIONAL FAME Give Their Bost Performance of the Year!

SILVANA MANGANO

STORMY SENSATION OF

'BITTER RICT"

RELEASING

ス

COLPORATION

ROXY:

And

ind

Released by 20th Century-Fox

To-morrow 5 Shows of “ANNA”.. Extra Performance At 12.00 Noon. BOOK EARLY!

VITTORIO GASSMAN

BROADWAY: To-morrow Morning Show At 12.00 Noon A Selected Programme of Technicolor Cartoons Presented by 20th Century-Fox

Roduced Admission: $1.20 & 70 Ch.

HOOVER

CAUSEWAY BAY.

FLIGHT NURSE

JOAN LESLIE FORREST TUCKER

A REPORT DH; TIGH

LAST DAY

2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

TOMORROW

ADVENTURES

OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

"ANILCOLOR

AN

11.30 AM.

UNITED ARTURES

20th Century-Fox Presents TYRONE POWER ● SUSAN HAYWARD in

“RAWHIDE”

At Reduced Priede:::: $1.00 & $1,50

DOIN 765 LTO-MORROW AN EXTRA MORNING SHOWS

At 11.00 mm

WARNER BROS.

COLOR CARTOONS.

SUNDAY

Basod na BANKER DEFOR'S Immortal Classic)

SPECIÁL SUNDAY MORNING MATINEK AT 12 HOON Walt Disney's COLOR CARTOONS Reduced Admission Prceszy $1.00 @ $1:50 0.

{{TO-DA”

ONLY

MAJESTIC 286

LEAIR CONDITIONED NATEL

A, གཙཱུལ།:t༈ TOMAHAWK GAP

BEACH HEAD

|GH WHY NOT BRUDEKBE CHAAMUN

MOINING SHO

NIGHT PEOPLE

WAT:12:0