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KING'S PRINCESS

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KING'S:

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MORNING SHOW AT 11.30 A.M.

SUNDAY

CREGORY PECK

in

"ONLY THE

VALIANT"

MONDAY

JOHN WAYNE in "OPERATION PACIFIC" In Technicolor Proceed, in aid of tho Kowloon Tsai Firo Victims

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It happens in... The CASBAH!

SIN-CAPITAL

OF THE

WORLD!

PRISONERS OF

THE

CASBAH

STARGING

GLORIA GRAHAME - CESAR ROMERO TURHAN BEY

TECHNICOLOR

Jorn Play By DWVALLOR SCOTT • Produced by 2004 LAZIONE

Directed by RICHARD QUEE

COLGADIS PRETIDDE

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Starring

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PREMNATH •

BINA RAI

ULLHAS • HIRALAL • PURNIMA

With English Subtitles

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MONDAY AUGUST 30, AT 11.30 A.M. Tyrono POWER • Susan HAYWARD

With Hugh

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Dean

Edgar BUCHANAN • A Sensational 20th Century-Fox Film

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Jack ELAM

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JOAN CRAWFORD

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1954.

FILMS CURRENT AND COMING

Then at the EMPIRE, after "The African Queen", their western is called "Fort Oxage".

Wo

featured in "War Arrow" Joan

By JANE ROBERTS

billowing

to seem 10

the

best in men

RESOURCEFUL GIRL

We just don't seem to be

twitting Cooper for defending her honour, yet voluntouring to able to get away from

stay behind to face certain westerns there's another

douth from the Apaches so that Hot awny, and batch of them this week, ofter a separation of dve years, to have to dig doop indo my box the rest can

is mort convincing. The fact that of superlatives to find words of marling husband riding off a la beginning with the comparis he's supposed to have been a prato adequate to describe it. Oates of the Antarctic to give Lively civilised "Johnny notorious gunman in the past The scenery was wonderful, the others a better chance" of

hasn't mado him play the part

Hayward

a gold avival Guitar".

at's it the hoovER as land-batten noodium-te puspector, we don't al

1 And it' not slight weakness in his character single change of clothing, Gary that Suman Hayward's supposed and they have "Make Hoate is allowed to show through and Cooper's face while delivering a to bring out either! To Live" scheduled to follow. I thought he did very well, monotonous grurit. by wdy of The guitar miste, and in fact dialogus was a joy to watch- the whole musical score contri- all the thoughtfully deft touches butes materially to the enter

"Prisoners of Tho Csabah" of a really good movie were tainment value of this picture falling logically into the pattern is a fairly true to type adven It's by Victor Young.

designed for them.

ture-romance with that rather Before itaving Johnny Guitar,

Then, I'm afraid. I began to handsome, if a trinė Reahy, two clever points the notice, the old corny touch here young man Turhan Bey treating Following "The Seekers" one or

dramatie effect in this coloured

and there In the dialogue. And the particular Middle Eastern at the LEE and GREAT flm of the stark black

And

the that, given that the trek from princem of the picture in a rather WORLD

have the white of

the clothes of

the Mexican scaport to the unconstitutionni way. Seminole and Kiowa Indians lynching party, coupled with Garden of Evil was scheduled I'm happy to, say the whole Crawford's all white to take five days, it was begin- thing's not handled too seriously

dress; the unexpected,

as though the and of its kind it's a nice little and Gary Cooper, Richard unheralded blast of dynamite at Tidors really would take that im with lots of shapely, scantily Widmark and Susan Hay- the beginning of the Alm cap long to get there.

clad harem lovelles and, a very ward fight the Apaches in turing the interest at the outset; I! Was is though everyone luxurious onsis around "Garden Of Evil at the the arresting shot of Vienna's how started out with an excellent they drape themselves.

bizarro gambling saloon idea, with a good cost, with the Our princess is a resourceful ROXY and BROADWAY.

apparently rising straight out of right medhim for bringing both girl Incidentally. When sho's The CAPITOL'S

show the desert.

10 the screen (CinemaScope) forced to marry the handsome nnd after "Quo Vadis" will be a

then got a little

Over- captain of her father's guard FOR ONCE re-issue of "Green Dolphin

whelmed half way through. (she hates him because he treats Street" and then "Rose

The story is about feitr

men her as the spoiled brat she 19) order to guarantee their Mario".

frontier scout Im't assigned to picked up by Leah m a sleepy in

Mexican village. Three safely among the tough citizens After

From the US. Cavalry and his advice lie "Invaders

of them are walling for their

of the Casbah to which they've the KING'S Mars"

and to the commander ignored

her the murder of fled after Amidst the battery of western PRINCESS will show "Pri- artillery we've had

ly to take them on to the gold- father, she makes sure he lives and ure

California. The other fclets of I can't soners Of The Casbah", then having hurled at us,

Devil". The

being Impressed the

by "Beat The

loubted courage of the early latter will be playing at the same time at the EMPIRE. AL the QUEEN'S and ALLAMERA. Fernandel in "Public

Number Tay Enemy One" will give way to "The Saracen's Blade".

woman L

תו וזיו

WIN 1 knew why Joan Crawford can go on year after yeur producing the same type of

A different each time and yet sul maringe to command one's interest,

The test of a good film, be it

adventure, drano musical,

is whether comedy Sunyer da in holding your alben- Bon from start to flush, “Johnny Guitar" has many faults but I think

fr not

or 11

For once. In "Fort Osage"

it

ship to be patched up sufletent

0 Mexican, Her object is to get them เก

1

14

which

up to the platonic olement of

the marriage by keeping a snake

There's quite I WRTYF littlo

ethers who headed west from ride bock with her into the in the bedroom! the comparative comfort of the interior where her husband

his seeno though when she capitu. east, to face the certain dangers trapped, badly wounded, in

Mosl of the A late (as of course we knew she of the wild Indian country that gold mine.

that would). between them and the is spent in convincing i

What a

ource of inspiration this Land

plenty much terille lands of California.

the Casban is to dlm makers- ke a brash

toothpaste weznan

or later All the characters have lines do town should be without one. adverftrement-sooner

Oh, I'm sorry, so carried away the burrage overwhelms you and of seript to be delivered wonder-

prudgingly, winkingly was I with the captain of the against your will you have to Ingly,

and forcefully, respectively to guard that I forgot to mention name. She's princess's he Impressed.

Her own a spoken the My main quarrel with west- this effect.

Gloria erns is that they're usually so in a low, throaty volce, but is delightfully played by

your to earth-nothing Grahame, apologise. down wildty improbable and contain quite such impossibly unreal charac. nt all suggestive of the "hidden Highness,

reduced to force" she's supposed to possess, that they're 1428 the level of a comle strip.

But with so many settlers so many

westerns dying with Their heats on in the middle of,

have been to

what st accomplishes this it capfured and helt inte

Wur.

tiem.

terrifyingly allen barren com Joan Crawford's face plaster- try, I'm beginning to see why so vel fake and square in the centre many people nre inspired by of the screen, eyes dilated, harsh their bravery. After all, why mouth shouting bullying threats shouldn't the Alm companies is a familiar hot that its into cash in on the two most colour- any of her pletures; but even fut patches of American history while you're marvelling at the the fadian wars and the Civil lock of subtlety and deep wh feeling, you can't help but be

In "Fort Osage", Rod Cameron rarried along by the mag of Is hired by two shady individuals this star's personality,

Lo escort a wagon train from Which, I suppose, is what Fort Osage to California. stops her

from being great actress in the old fashioner

of We Wordi.

The It' Crawford artat

discover

Pr

this

1

I

CHANGE FOR BETTA

Maybe

You'll clusive in

something

Betta St John has at last got thinking about it.

she in which

doesn't hed part (although Cooper Gary

native are co- have to impersonate a and Richard Widmark starred, he's obviously the one el.

In "The Saracen Made" which, to be considered first) Is big slow moving, slow talking and I believe, though I haven't read Frank apart from telling Leah that he it is a best seller by

"The Foxes once was a sheriff, that's all we Yerby who wrote

of Hartow", she's the daughter know about him.

Richard Widmark teils Gary ut Baron Rogliano.

u

the story that he's Arstly The Crusades of Coper gambler and secondly a poet. I having taken place in the 13th think he must have been fool- century, Frank Yerby was on fairly sale ground when he in- ink about the second.

and the bold baron Cameron Mitchell is a tricky vented

to an young fellow, a cross between married his daughter

who had stolen her in spite of being the leader of Dane Clark and John Garfield sein

the same from the son of the man he had to look at and with the expedition and as such, in

10 decide when the truculent "I'm a lough boy murdered. n position to dec Conting personality

It's a bit involved, but as it's shall leave, he finds in- see" attitude

labelled a Technicolour swash- every part. She's Wagons

onc. delays at every turn explicable

who people Vietor Manuel Mendoza is a buckler by the hired Our two friends who've

the back simple Mexican.

made it, you won't bother boo him are of enurse at

with All four are supposed to infer much

the plot, tha of it all, having weished on a deal to deliver certain goods to that they're pretty bad medicine action's the thing.

the Ricardo

1s Montalban to ride Mercedes McCumbridge who the Osage

Indians in return for for a lone woman

and Jungles

mountains for the

of man who gallops off a guarantee of safety

Mexico with, but Instead of the the Saracena when wagon train.

Mildred Crawford Pierce, Joan Torch Song Crowford or, in this Ivese,

Crawford, Joan Vienna every time.

has the scenndary ferilnine role in the picture, is much more of a dramatic actress thur Jonn Crawford,

towards every-

to his

the fight girl

obvious happening, we have the friend is married by the mur

blubbing Yet the mechanics

youngster

کرد؟

posse to the

Joan

Guns blaze. villains plot, in dans whoop and eventually off we go on the trail to the west.

Jane Nigh Is the girl.

INTER-INDIAN

that she was years than she probably cares

when derer of his father, and

chastened by Cooper: Widmark killer himself is Rick Jason.

the

And Now Superscope

which are

architecturally un-

of her acting showed through in "Johnny

Guitar and she stole no scenes from the star.

Called upon subtly to work up the feelings pilch nevtseary to lynch

Maureen O'Hara has been in Crawford (owner of a gambling films quite

come time--more house) one felt standing

buck

ndroiring her to remember but she sull radi performance to such an extent otes a freshness that some of

The latest company to join an to make it hudlerous.

the stars of the same vintage could have kicked the have lost somewhere along the the Scope race is R.K.O. Radio. sultable for the ribbon screen They've adopted the Tushinsky proportions of CinemaScope, but sherriff and his band of

to fame.

process called Superscope which want to show pictures with the other Any She's in "War Arrow" with its the film to the screen in CinemaScope — or hypocrites for being swayed by such obvious soup boxing. And Jeff Chandler now. Not a role existence already.

"look". yet I don't

calling for great feats know -- many nobs have been free as easily. trionic talent, but she graces it Perhaps it was my admiration with her own attractive brand for the Crawford personality of Irish charm. that made me binsed,

It's Indian against Indian in The quarrel between these "War Arrow", with Jeff Chand two women, is the motivating ler as Major Brady, enlisting force behind the action of the the help of the peaceful Semi-

noles against the picture.

warlike

read to

of his-

can to is take

The two Tushinsky brothers What I

An showed their finished product to old picture shot in the standard wide to the American film industry and size (four measures

press back in March of this three high) and by a reprinting year, but apparently it's only a process (called rocomposing) month since R.K.O. Radio an- and the uso of anamorphle nounced that they will be lenses, stretch it to the extreme handling the oversens distribu- Cinemascope proportions of tl- tion of this process.

most three wide to one high. Ostensibly, Scott Brady, in Kiowas. love with Vienna (Joan Craw- The Seminoles were originally

It's a wide

screen gadget in

unless the It apparently caused great ford) and in turn half hated from the swamplands of Florida actual fact, but

loved by Mercedes and I should have thought their theatro isn't fifted for this, the excitement when it was launch McCambridge in the

of sofulness in country unfamilles only other additions to standard ed on American theatre owners on equipment that the claema and pressmen six months ago, contention. But in reality it's to them, against an enemy the natural loathing of a force his home ground, would be owner will need ord Superscope but even the first three foreign

anamorphic lenser capitals to. sce the wonder ful woman, unattractive to limited. However, they seem to Variable

Paris Jeff which are attached to the pro- (London,

and Rome) all right and men, for the same type who 13. manage

Jector

won't receive a ceremonial visio Sterling Haydon, as Johnny Chandler gets the girl.

The Tushinsky apparatus is until September, so we'll have Guitar, the soft spoken wanderer For the first half of "Garden who hopes to reclaim Vienna Of Evil" I thought I was going designed principally for theatres to wait our tum

half

bono

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Seekers

CURCELLE FTUMIKA PAST WLATA

MOI

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PAF Ceran HAYWARD - Richard WIDMARK

CINAMASCOPE

GÄRDEN OF EVIL

Short Subject

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