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HIS LUST FOR REVENGE becomes as consuming a passion as love itself!

SHE FIGHTS with a passion no peril can stem... for her right to live and lovel

CORNEL WILDE YVONNE DECARLO PASSION

a story of Early California!

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1954.

FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING

As no doubt you've heard, "The Barefoot Contessa" is the attraction at the ROXY and BROADWAY. The star herself (I think it's un- necessary to mention her name) arrived in the colony this morning and Mr Guardian, the District Supervisor, flew in from Manila to welcome her.

The KING'S and PRIN. CESS are showing "Passion" and after that, the EMPIRE wil join them with "Elephant Walk."

different

Competing on terms with the lovely ladies in these three pictures is Jack Webb in the QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA's "Drag net."

Back to beauty again with La Turner in "The Fame and the Flesh" al the CAPITOL und LIBERTY arul as this will probably have

long

its successor has not yet been namel.

run.

After "Sabre Jet" at the HOOVER, you will be able to see "Riders to the Stars". "Witness to Murder", “Star of India" and "Apache"-in that order.

By JANE ROBERTS

Yvonne de Carlo rides the range in "Passion”,

familiarity, but the story itself existing there, and travel back,

is based on an actual case that was solved by the Los Angeles Police Force.

A thriller with a difference, the deliberate underplaying has a punch all its own,

ones.

METEOR HUNTING

"Riders to the Stars" appears. to be a proving ground for new stars and a resting place for old

Smappy

pert little Martha Iyer has risen quite a long way over the horizon since, back in ILS 1948, she was being halled "the outstanding pupil in R.K.. Radio's school for stardom"

Most of her time with that stack was spent in posing for

to Utah to settle down.

SUNDRY CHARACTERS

I won't attappt to list what Deem to me to be the ingredigats of woman's platums,

but usually, any film that shows one woman dominating all the mon with wium she comes in contact and finishing up with the last word (the fact she's dead not making word any the less decisivo) has for women than more appeal men. It can't help but make men feel slightly uncomfortable and exploited

that thast

Per-

Ava Gardner is undoubtedly the star of the picture. haps "sun" would be a better revolves word everything around her. As the broken down director, Humphrey Bogari tells her, when he's trying to persuado her to go to Bome to make n noreth test, "You could make the moon a key light".

"Koy light" in movie jargon meaning the one light always According focused on the stor. tu the script Deling is A recondary consideration if you have dint elusive "star quality"

The flashback method is used There are sundry characters again and again in The Baro- As the camera along the way who cross their foot Contessu“. path--the most notable being a focuses on the gathering at the the chiot rascally fellow who administers Contessa's funeral, the law in Skagway.

mourners are picked out one by This 10 John McIntire, and one and the events in the Con- deadly Dough his intentions are. Lesan's life that have vecmed him mo sumificant to them arc my sympathies were with every time. His thumb on every singled out. money-making scheme associated

In spite of Humphrey Bogart's with gold mining, his pretences excellent playing of the drink- or being the upholder of law podden director making a Just and order don't fool anyone. effort to do something worth-

Fat he's

make a gas; whle, ac

honours go to hetti with

a tough

bodyguard. Bamund O'Brien, in the lust shoot-'em-up night which, as usual, ia played out

זיזון ! דנן

"The Far Country" is at the LEE and GREAT Alz=1457 pictures. Kid although In the deserted streets of the WORLD.

Uti

How

they misrepresent the contents of the packages they're supposed to l labelling

"Passion" is about evenge Sparish style, early Cali -

The unity bit of passlott, fornia.

Hollywood understander it.

The Implied very early on +21 pue and has very little to do

can with the story. One

only that

1tles suppre

ure frequently allotted from a list. in strict rotation, like the names of typhoru

Bath of them are required fa be grim and unsaning through mul most of the Alin prefer them in happler roles.

und

A

R

und

Chest

may seen An unnecessary boom town, it's he himself who Occupation for

fights it out with James Stewart

Oh, I forgot to ment

mention that who takes acting seriously, it's helped her learn to treat in spite of his the protestations

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a friend.

that he trustN nobody. Wants "Riders to the Stars" isn't a nolity.

therefore never picture to wring your heart or gels hurt, que hem Onully mind, but it is an interesting vrais has bett milestone on Martha Byer's road

the big part she

course, we knew he would. has with

With Andrey Hepburn. Willem Holden and Humphrey Bogart in "Sabrina

a result of her perform

she's becu role

it

COULDN'T BE BETTER

The

As

fawning, meaty- mouthed publicity ngent whose undoubted brain was at the dis- posal of the highest bidder, de couldn't have been beltered.

Ha big scene is played on the telephone, He's Lelephoning to make suits jauntily Bogart long distance Komun

their very

valuable through her role Hurt onee, Pure that

duckn't

ut her appear 10 let it

murder back bil father's trial for Is

whole

intend

she doesn't

and happen again

about the

belligerent

thing. thing

bring

In "Sabrina" ince in

ea-starring RIVER "Ketebikan" which made in Alaska.

Must be getting a bit crowded

up

Alaska these days!

star

in Madrid

have Movie ars just dout Lathers who murder their wives and Mairiu must be kept nut

ull

cajoles. und

of

Joves

Luilles, theenter down the telephone, Besturing

19, queen torties certainly command pertCLCLE

of

Mic

the attruc-

15 He's millionaire

I should have thought sho wild have been many hikely to have byed to the end of the Cornel Wilde and Yvotne de

picture if she'd been more subtle Carlo me the stars the fuller

about getting her own way She's dow

have refter

enough But to return to "Riders to the lovely

goli mopping his face and doing of 2012 lead role tu

kap into she which dict

appear quite Stars": "Herbert Marshall is the results by wheedling rather than everything but

wonderful ld-timer

Her referring to WILS comfortable. This aeterns has a

bulldozing. musical comedy instrument-It's well With that ured, lovely sense of humour

worried,

Curles Hus # as her looks and litt Intense, perhaps - It' be-all-right-on- attention though.

The

Softl

145 Milit good girl is played with paratively outdoor girl part she was given the-night air he affects, he plays in "Praxiou" chitin't suit her the part of seientist trying to syrupy kittenishness by Corinne sister of the Count. Maria's only benrly in well as

It sounds far Calvet. French Canadian I think husband; yet her beautiful voice of the rapture a meteor. "ORTO" others she's had.

fetched, I know, but as one of she was supposed to be and her and quiet grace impressed itself the

mainly Li obstaries

travelling #dialogue consisted

on the picture in spite of outer space seems to be the telling the rest of the cast with undisputed beauty and

tion of Ava

Gardner. disintegration of metals at that monotonous regularity that

that they I helgbt, it str75 m

fully logical should be neighbourly. I regret An amusing performance

given by Marlus Goring. a South American who mode a big decision when lie the problem could be solved. scenes of the far north is very was a small boy; should he be a good little boy and do good Richard Carlson directed and good and the picture he and Willlem Landigan

arc whole is well made, though things, or be a bad little boy and better have fun. He chose the latter two of the pilots who volunteer James Stewart gives to guide the rockets spacewards performance than the type of and has been given some very

good dialogue to support 11. picture seems to warrant,

interes! has been that il aroused by this picture will be unnecessary to suggest that you go to see it. If you decide not to, you'll probably hear so many of your triends talking about it that you'll give in out of sheer curiosity!

In keeping with present day feeling, the sympathy ies with the underdog The hired mer of the Spanish owner of a large trncl land

in California are Instructed by him to frighten off all the small ranch holders on

his property. The right to live and graze their eattle there had been given te most of them by his forbears, but as nothing was put in writing the law is on his side.

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Don Domingo's meri fre Land of cutthroats and exceed- ing their Instructions, burn down Comel Wilde's ranch while he is away, killing his bride and her parents. When

Coming to KING'S • PRINCESS • EMPIRE his baby cannot be found, it is

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assumed that he too died in the fre

and together with the younger sistor of his wife, Wilde wets out la track down the killers.

I liked Raymond Burr as his friend, in spite of that friend- ship hunting down Wilde as, by knifing the killers, one by one, he put himself outside the law. And I liked Loo the almost entire absence of music-just the occasional plucking of multar strings underlining the Spanish simosphere.

of this

All the possibilities picture weren't explored, but it still has much to recommend it.

AN HONEST COP

that

by

meteor

how

11

of

enor why that 1 found he

some-

The

the neck! r pain In

In photography

the

stands up to the mous pressure prevailing there.

for the experiment found thy

Against my will self getting interested in all the inumbo jumbo of testing

and. improvising that went on before

on thu

WOMAN'S PICTURE

the actual flight climaxing the In spite of all the "animal" pleture, and there's EL chilling talk, The Barefoot Contessa” la realm sbout the journey fundamentally ง woman's through the stratosphere.

plcture.

However, I prefer my flims to be about human relationships rather than space ships.

FIRE EATER

A

санс

The word "far" is purely

In the comparative term. of the townsmen of the cities down in the south of the USA back in goldrush

days.

"The Far Country" signified for them the Yukon. with fascinating plctures conjured up by such wild frontler towns as Skagway and Dawson,

From the Middle West Wyoming to be exact---comes uncommunicative James Stewart. Gone are the smooth manners and polished charm of his Gienn Miller study--this time hos n cowpuncher, quicker од tho trigger than nearly everyone and less ready with speech than

most

Hearing of the fabulous prices eattle are fetching in the hungry

There has been a spate of Yukon he drives his herd up

pictures recently showing police

from Wyoming to Seattle, where

men in an unfavourable light we met him.

Some have painted a picture of Our first inkling of hils human, falliblo tellows suc- character comes when ho cumbing to temptation, whic laconically hands back their others have given us a hardened

gune

to hip two ostensible criminal using the respectable

to feel holpers" We begin cont of a policeman to hide

respect for Д inan who has large number of petty rackets.

managed to tamo such shifty In fact, the New York Police individuals as these, force them to help him drive him cattle and have felt so strongly about the

make them do it in time to Increasing tendency to feature catch the infrequent boat from "rogue cops" that they have Seattle to Skagway. And all protested vehemently enough to this single-handed. attract the attention of Now

When somebody ensually York newspapers.

mentions that hơʻd started with four men and in reply to query on to their whereabouts,

In

So

So much

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It's quite a relief them, to Brid that Sergeant Jon Friday, of the Los Angeles Police Force, la he says abruptly "dead", we completely honest cop with his begin to wonder whether we're mind on his job in "Dry

"Drsnes". zupposed to cheer Jack Webb directs and stars fellow.

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picture, and his alick,

In his favour, be tough, deadpan delivery makes devotion of an old

cowhand, every other acroen policeman played by Walter Breman. you've seen look like an over. There's much action between exuberant schoolboy.

the two, and fo view of the "Dragnet" was a very succes- gentlences, humour and kindll- ful on American television. ́ness of the old man, tiere grows

show and both Webb and Ben Alex- the thought that possibly this ander have the same roles on young fire ester may have had the screen that they created for some justification for nin actions. TV.

The "picture" concichs, their The dim has been given the efforts to get the herd of cattle title of the entire TV series, up to Dawson City, take advant presumably coshins in on ilm

The "hiangmarket prices.

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