1954-11-13 — Page 2

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! THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1954.

FILMS-CURRENT

At the HOOVER this week is "Act of Love". This is a recent release; it will be followed by a re-release made some years ago, "I've Always Loved You".

The QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA 'have "Duel In The Jungle" and this will also be followed by release, "Suspicion”.

AND COMING

By JANE ROBERTS

pears bitter and toelturn, and he is posted away at an hour's return to satisfy the curiosity notice. She wails at their ren- of the hotel clerk who can't dezvOLS................. understand how he can describo in minute detall the room ho wants at the same time admit ting that he's never been in the town before,

The last we see of her is as she slowly descends the steps to the Seine.

Lonely Agure i stumbles along the bouchisimetbeck against a stormy sky--the beachcomber, TEXT BOOK EFFICIENCY

Contrasting with this grubby. dissolute individual the dapper Resident in Charge of the Wol- como Islands smooth. Renowned for his clever appears doubly caricatures of Colonial officials, Somerset Maugham has dealt dairly kindly with him, how- ever: bila text book efficiency, though laughable to begin with, has surprisingly good results,

Donald Binden played this well and gave it just the right mixture cision.

of diffidence and de-

WORTH TWO VISITS Kirk Douglas performanco 1 While the room is being pre- give. Never

the best I have ever seen him nontimental ho pared for him he sits dreaming cold-bloodedly walks into an "The Beachcomber" is at in the sun. The sadness of his LEE and GREAT WORLD thoughts is interrupted by the "arrangement" that seems to him

perfectly fair on both sides. and, in contrast to this Bri- twittering of a French girl, who,

though

That the other party should not important to

the be squeamish after the bargain tish picture, they will show story, demonstrates the willing-

ing-hunk been struck completely after it an American comedy nees of most of the French girls puzzling to him being at heart couldn't have custated the ne featuring Spike Jones, "Fire. 10 man Save My Child."

Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer's picture houses the CAPL TOL and LIBERTY - are running "Valley of the Kings" for two weeks and

Garson then Green

takes with "Her Twelve

Dyer

Men".

L

home

fraternise with the cum- paratively wealthy American callors swarming over the town They're not being cheap, merely practical.

Il'A this theme that mins through the main

part of the picture.

Occupation

As Kirk Deglas ells there, the prent melts into the past and at the wild abandoned jubilation of VE Day la recaptured, The excitement is replaced by the You can see "Ride Clear struggle at a great city to regain of Diablo" at the KING'S ils dignity and organise (teclf for and PRINCESS and then on peace, and there, in Paris

member เฟ the Tuesday they will be start- Puree is Douglas.

Mickey Spillane Ing

The people he knew there pas thriller, The Long Wait."

before his eyes. There was the of kindly restaurant keeper and his Usually the spectacular CinemaScope pie. Wife, bearing with sarcastle for- ude wil the apparently point. the ROXY

and less

the new les estribens ut

And the sergeant BROADWAY, are departing Hureaucracy. from this policy next week, daing his limited best to help him Following

after The long as there was no trouble involved. Then there was the Three Pirates", they're mistered son of the restaurant showing a British picture keeper with a bathing for Briton. German alike. called "Operation Diplomat” Anrerican pint

having ste and will then possibly show using them for

ponddest the women of France. again "The Snows of Kili. manjaro". "Hajji Baba” will start next Thursday,

kures.

ago

Kay.

TWO HE REMEMBERS

generous,

The women: two in particular The EMPIRE are bring- be remembers. There was Nina;

resourceful, ing back three pictures that threwd. Even in the middle of you may have missed when the desert she would never he they were shown here a af a loss to find a protector. short Tizne

"Mon.

And gentle Liau. Before going "Pandora and the of with her American captain, Flying Dutchman" And Nina had provided for Lisa. She "Made in Heaven."

had introduced her In Kirk They could have the Daglas,

leaving. The lonely soldier would have com- panionship and the destitute girl would have food and roof over her head.

Act of Love" is one of the most touching love stories I've meen for years. It's the kind of dha that leaves you feeling that YIRI

don't want to discuKO it with anyone in case they shutter the Trugite thinge is left,

There's something over- whelmingly pathetic about Darry Robin as the little Paris wall battered and bruised from the

W/121 room she

Lisa's horror of what she was requirit to do to full hem part of the bargain is nt strut misunderstood by Douglas, Used to the idea of being accepted as

"THE ROSE OF BAGHDAD" unkind handling Fata has given a

At Reduced Prices

Don't Miss It!

At 12.20 p.m. Eagle Films prosent

An Outstanding Indian Production

“JADUGAR”

Starring Niroo

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English Subtitles

CAPITOL

THE 22513

THE HOME OF

Kamran

Lolita Kumari

At Regular Pricas

LIBERTY

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THEY METI

THEY LOVEDI

THE POLAR

„THEY ADVENTUREDI

OF

VALLEY KINGS

M-G-M

filmed ft in

COLOR

in Egypti

STAREND ROBERT

ELEANOR

TAYLOR-PARKER

CARLOS THOMPSON

With Perspects Starcophonic Sound

HOOVER

CAUSEWAY BAY

NOW SHOWING

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

G 9.30 P.M.

KIRK DOUGLAS

her.

The gentle, shy,

1

It's a pity that Glynn Johns,

Welsh with her

parentage,

fairly kindly person, he's co prepared to a certain extent to cent a litle botter. In spite of humout her. As love develops between them he doesn't 9754 abandet his personality and be come soft: it's as though W with List, see him with new understanding.

In

W

this are was a very convincing

nister missionary's

and her deliveranceK when prayer for cho and Robert Newton stranded on an island together

the face of his jo becomes, In tifference to her, more pathe- tie than funny.

didn't seem quite neces It cary, in

The order to Indicute boredom

of a

social evening missionary and hts the audience

take

should

Every smallest blt player in this picture has a distinct per- conality-It's worth two visits.

SOILING HER NYLONS "Dur in the Jungle" starts with the off

elvilised

enough ist, lo fashion. It's not until it's woll through it step by step with the

the jungle young Resident, and 1 under weigh that

thought it could 1unte savagery starts This means that have Jeanne Crain is given a chance en shortened to speed up the to look

a action, very attractive as

before soiling This is on<? of the Alm's her nylons private secretary

tired of Urough drawbacks. If you're crawing

her over-stickness though, it will the swamps looking for supposedly dend ein

welcome change. provkle a employer, He has disappeared in rather

QUITE A FEAT unusual circumstances after

increasing I've noticed Benvin

ing naively taken

out an tendency lately for films to be enormous insurance policy to

set in the very early part of be paid to his mother in the the century when wotnen's event of his death.

dress was at ila stuMest, Those The

จ employer

David awful

mutton siceves, leg of Farrar The

chain of n

dall skirts and impossible hats events leading up to the pre- piled with everything but live sumed death of Farrar appears irees were the

this vogue at In the insurance Tather Ashy

period and they make even the Dand most company representative

look glamorous Andrews) and as such a sum of money Involved he

whole

an

actress

Inrgo like a sexless dummy.

the scene of the nicords as feets us

Justified In taking a trip to

In the face of these draw- to find would do very well to look

passable. Crain has succeeds

backs of dress, Eleanor Parker

cut just what has happened.

Naturally. Jeanne

to

In Came

As it is, she almost in "Valley of the the spot and no-

Kings" in being as lovely a3 benty is very surprised

when usual, which quite a foal. David Farrar turns up, very

male audiences are much alive and determined that about to cross this picture oft the inconvenient Insurance

their visiting list, let me presentative Isn't going

to get hasten to ndi that Samnin back alive to give him away.

нест for

short Almost every animat we've Gumal,

e sequence as an Egyptian dancer the screen since the in the briefest days of Frank Buck's "Bring 'em costumes, is ample

of abbreviated compensa~ Back Alive” pletures turns up ton for the toe to neck cover- and just about every hazard in the book is trotted out before gs of Miss Parker, and further, Dana Andrews gets his man--that quite a few liberties have been taken with the fashions of whe day, to that even her dresses urcat as dreadful ne they might have been,

sten on

and woman.

DIFFICULT COMPARISON

It's difficult to avoid comparing the latest "Beachcomber" with

ago

old reprobate possible in

convinced that

im.

QUEEN'S

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"Duel In The Jungle"

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EVERY STOLEN KISS INVITES DEATH!

UEANNEA ORAIN

Duel Jungle

IN

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A DIPLOMAT'S BRIEFCASE

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Operation Diplomat

'starving

GUY ROLFE-LISA DANIELY

PATRICIA DAINTON -

with SYDNEYTÄŠLEN ·

Relomed by 20th Century-Fox

For the rest, the Arub music is particularly pleasing, and if un- disgusto, her shame and self the film made some years

is above his head. Slow with Elsa Lanchester as the mis-

the story seems a bit far fetched believing way in which she ly and painfully they become stunary's sister and Charles

Just remember that anything is slowly emerges from her apally to And that someone really loves adjusted to each other and real Laughton ne

love is beginuing to awaken be

Eleanor Parker himself.

the daughter ADDED ATTRACTION: "Life of President Eisenhower" her, only to realise with horror tween them when Lisa is picked Though I can only dimly re- of famous Egyptologist, is that he's like all the rest, as a

up by the

member it, I have a feeling that on the track of a tomb contain- police. very moving performance.

It had more life and movement in

ing the mumny of

a Pharonh it than the Glynis Johns-* Robert

who had been converted to Newton version that

the idea of ano god by the started yesterday.

of the Bible. Now Joseph

ho's dead, on the search.

QUIET DELICACY

Joudness of the The

other the positive male- women and ness of the men in the cast are In such contrast

to the quiet dellency of Dany Robin that her helplessness is almost something to reach out and touch.

Tho much abused flashback method used to tell the story but, instead of the disjointed ness it usually produces, in "Act of Love"

is handled

is

Perhaps, however, It's unfair

She cannot produce any mar- riage certificate to support her story that she is married to the

and she American private forced to submit to the dreadful slame of being herded in with bunch of street women, abused

such people as Charles Laugh- by them, examined with them

l'on and Elsa Lanchester аге a card involved. and finally issued with that proclaims to the world her new occupation.

that

her father was

she's carry-

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

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ROXY

Richard Widmark

in

to make comparisons when two tears some other people "HALLS OF MONTEZUMA" !

even

also interested in the lost tomb, though they're not all as high- They have a way of making minded as Eleanor Parker about even the most insignificent story it. It's almost Impossible to interesting and Somerset Maug- describe the reality with which hum's disreputable

PIOUS INDIGNATION remittance Dany Robin portrays the feelings man was a natural for Charles Miss Parker assumes an attitude In fact some of them and with of a young girl forced into this Laughton an was the prim mala of plous indignation-arg Intelligence, Beginning and position

She makes you feel ionary's sister for Elsa

Lian. ending in the present, it shows with her every twist of the chester.

trying to and the burial cham- her for reasons of sordid gain, party of tourists arriving in a degradation sweeping over her. Glynis Johns and Robert New-

from the 10 in

of the Bouth

We're allowed, Kirk Douglas is her only hope, tan make the physical attraction beginning, to suspect that her France.

but before he can convince her between the two seem a lot more too amooth husband (played by Among them is Kirk Douging, that they will be married as plausible than their predecessors the newester obviously labouring under some Boon

they're making can persuade the though and the photography is so much fuss about, Carlos sort of strong emotion. He ap- authorities to grant permission, much better handlod.

Thompson) isn't all he appears, I particularly Ilked the While on the other hand, opening shots. À long expanse Robert Thylor, who loses of tropical shore stretches into time in. Intimating that he's the distance. It's twilight and a (Continued on Page 10)

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