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HING'S PRINCESS

*

At 2.99, 8-10, 7.20 @ 0.80 p.m. || At 2.50, 8.80, 7.30 & 9.30 pjn. ★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★

A SUPREME ADVENTURE

IN FURIOUS ACTION!

Walt Disney's

Rob Roy

THE HIGHLAND ROGUE

RICHARD TODD - GLYNIS JOHNS

An All Live-Action Picture

TECHNICOLOR

Distributed by Rydes Pictures - Looyilght Wan Disney Productions

KINGS 5

His fight for right blazed

a trail of in-

citement from

the Highlands to the heart of a nation!

SHOWS

TO-MORROW

EXTRA MOrning shOW AT 11,30 A.M. "ROB ROY"

AT REGULAR PRICES

PRINCESS

TO-MORROW SPECIAL

At 11.00 a.m. M-G-M prosents

"TOM

MORNING SHOWS

and JERRY"

in CINEMASCOPE

A Programme of Cartoons at Reduced Prices

At 12.20 p.m.

Warner Bros. presents

John Wayne in "BIG JIM MCLAIN"

co-starring Nancy Olson

AT REDUCED PRICES!

CAPITOL

THE HOME OF

LIBERTY

MOTURES

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5,00. 7.20 & 9.45 P.M. ON PANORAMIC SCREEN

GREEN DOLPHIN STREET

STARRING:

LANA TURNER

VAN HEFLIN

DONNA REED

An

M-G-M Picture

SUNDAY Morning shOW AT 12,30 P.M.

CAPITOL

M-G-M Prosonts

"TERESA"

with Pier Angeli John Ericson

LIBERTY

"SOMBRERO"

with

Pier Angeli Ricardo Montalban

At Reduced Prices!

★ NEXT CHANGE ★ BIGGEST MUSICAL SHOWE avor to crowd the screen

CINEMASCOPE

LOVE-

MAKING

SONOSI

and in Blushing COLORI

M-G-M'S

SEVEN BRIDES

FOR SEVEN BROTHERS

-KTARRING

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1955,

FILMS CURRENT AND

There's murder and értme detection at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY in "Eight O'Clock Walk”,, followed by a Lana Turner picture of some while ngo-"Green

The Dolphin Street”. cellent musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”, will start a week from today.

ex-

Comedy and girls reign at the HOOVER where they're showing "Top Banana” ' anů then will come a British plcture "Shadow of the Post"

A second British picture is showing this week, though for a very limited time- "The Pickwick Papers" at the LEE, and after that you'll be getting another opportunity of seeing "The Purple Plain".

By JANE ROBERTS

Richard Todd and Glynis Johns in a scene from

"Rob Roy"

COMING

Yet another British pic- ture is starting its,run in Hongkong at the KING'S and PRINCESS. It's Walt Disney's film, based not on Sir Walter Scott's novel, but CITY historical fact, "Rob Roy". Between it and the

'hinese New Year picture the too gave the Impression of spite of the handleap of being will come "The Sins of having her anurd 011 other parglysåd, Jezebel" and then for the things. holiday, the much-heralded "White Christmas" in Vista. vision,

In contrast, Michinel Medwin, cool pi The young horgia in "The Intruder", grimaceś, chgeta and generally overacts in fashion nost unlike him,

The story and hundling

The EMPIRE will be Joining The KING'S and PRINCESS for "White good and thu suspense Christmas" and in the sustained. meantime are showing "Jennifer", "The Highway- man" and "The Glass Moun- tain" in that order.

WHAT A CASTI

בנו

well

The next year showed up the ruckols behind big-time Tennis and the traps lylug in wait for slur players--this she called "Hard, Fast and Beautiful",

1962 found her dealing with the very delicate subject of criminal assault and the tragic effect on the after life of the wolnon victim. "Outrage" wns the arresting title she gave this

one.

For 1953 her subject was murder; "Beware My Lovely" being

a war-of-nerves melò- rkna with tschizophrenic "The Milch-

What 12

form up for paracle

The Pickwick "Three Hours to Kill" is Papers". There's James Hayter the western nt the as a beaming, rotund Pickwick,

murderer and chairman of the Pickwickians QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA Chub, with, as his mid part-

Itiker" A tale of a muniacal kier on the prowl. and then Vincent Price will ner try to send chills down your Donald. spine as "The Mad Magi- clan."

The Italian "Paula" goes to the ROXY and BROAD- WAY, there she'll stay for three days with "The Float- ing Dutchman" as the next picture and the big "There's No Business Like Show Business" starting just be fore the Chinese New Year holiday.

in adventure.

James

Her-

London's two

famous miones Gingold and Boddeley -are sour and sweet

respec- tively, Joyce Grenfell is suit ably garrulous as the party. giving Mrs Leo Hunter and to

less

an

actor than Donald Wollt plays the part of the prosecuting sergeant Buzfuz.

At the beginning of last your "The Bigamist" was released- a picture that had Edmond O'Bries in the title role

Bid Joan Fontaine and Ida Lupine two "wives". It was Kenerally agreed that Ida

uf direction Lupino's was masterly.

415

"Jennifer"

this

Ida

discover "Jenni-

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

3.15, 780 & 9.30 pes

* 10 630, 7220 & 9.30 p.191.

Michael Denison and Dulcis SHOWING TO-DAY

Gray are the young couplo whose happiness. Is threatened by his wartimo infatuation for un Italian girl, Valentina Corteno. She is the Inspiration for his opera. The Glass Mountain- gentle.. soul who though mob wishing, to separate, the com-- paper from his wife, to never- thelem inenpahic of putting A stop to the strong attraction she feels towards him and which she suspects is returned, 1Tp magnificent.volcé of Tito Gobbi is heart singing the Legend of the Ginng Mountain and other songs that havo be- the come very popular sinco Blm was first released.

WOMEN'S PLACE?

A large proportion of tho saloons and hotels in the old West seem to have been owned or run by women, and pretty once at that, The question crosses one's mind whether this 1109 a foundation in fact or .whether like the low cut Kowns they inevitably wear, they're there to interest the cash cus- túmers,

- Dianne Foster has the role in **Three

Flours to KHI", with

Donna Reed and Dana Andrews in "Three Hours

to Kil

for

Donna Roet us her rival the uffactions of Dana Andrews.

A PITY

in

for

10

The sheriff has givent Дипа Andrews just three hour However in

which to find the killor whose

nearly crime he was lynched three years' previously As Mr Jingle, Nigel Patrick Lupino has nothing to do with

either production or direction, and the action of the picture is Weirs an air of jaunty im- she's content to be merely the concerned with his efforts pudence; permanently impover-

ster, sharing top billing with discover which of the "friends" Íshed, permanently scheming, Howard Duit. permanently down and resolved

present at the time was actually never to be completely out, ha It's a mystery thriller, with the killer. fleeces the gullible Pickwickigns Ida Lupino trying to with such cheeky charm that the secret behind the myster one can imagine them feeling lous disappearance of it almost a privilege.

fer", a wealthy heiress. The voice of Nat King Cole, us In Poor Vincent Price appears Athene "Hajji Baba," is heard singing destined to play the villain for Seyler, Sam Costu, George the tune "Angel Eyes,"

ever. His soft, measured volco Roboy and William Hartnell aro

seems made for a sympathetic a few of the other well known

rule, yet its very softness is in- evitably actors in this very falteful

twisted to become plece of Dickens, produced and

whisperingly menacing and the directed by Noel Langley,

understanding light in his eyes is nearly always a cover, for a warped mentality.

The top banana is the term used to describe the principal comedian of any show In Amerien and this is Phil Svery role in the picture, Kathleen Harrison, "Top Hanana","

It was a very successful New York production and has been transferred to the serven more or less infact, except for some of the more

more shady stories. In essence it's a broad As I Joke

the st expense of Ameri- con burlesque, with Phil Silvers Milton a composite picture of Berle, Jack Benny, himself and many other famous American radio, cinema, stage and TV comedians.

Except for the girls in their .various degrees of undress,

ha

is the whole show-on stage for

will probably only be showing for 4 few days should advise un carly visit.

KINDLY TREATED

ESCAPISM

Escapism, the quality most movie goers look for in their flims, is to be found in large doses in "The Highwayman”

He's at it again in "The Mađ For a start,

costumo, Magician", killing three people secondly the

and threatening two more be sharply divided

Into the good fore his fate catches up with and the bad, and thirdly there's him.

it's h

characters

ILTU

and

nearly the entire picture, loud, Macgregor, his clon and their for and Philip Friend,

plenty of swordplay. The period retreated by Walt In addition, the names of the

good What a pity that this Disney for his picturo "Rob principals are well

known looking actor is never allowed Wanda Roy" centres on n lurid page

his Charles any legitimate romance in Hendrix,

battles in 1715, when Rob Roy of the English-Scottish border Coburn, Victor Jory, Cecil Kell-films.

Mary Murphy and Eva he Garbor are the two girls good measure our hero docen't got. brash, noisy, sentimental, yet a

allies were attempting to rc- plays three parts; one a simple very endearing personality for store the Stuart line to the Quaker, another a tied land-

English throne.

owner and the other the high- whyman of the title.

all that

་

The music is by the known

writer song Mercer.

well Johnny

previous As in a picture featuring characters "The

CREEPY AFFAIR

"Shadow of the Past"

is a

costume historical

The publicity says that it's Sword

Det in arid

"pre-revolutionary Eng the Rose-Richard Toddl and land". I can't remember that

had anything Glynis Johns are once more the woover

officially admitted was a romantic

whose adven.volution" fram

but my history tures we follow,

notoriously shaky and I'm will- of ing to take the publicity partment's word for it!

JANE POWELL HOWARD KEEL dy appearing out of the the earlier film are also in

with Perspecta Stereophonic Sound

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THE

STELLO IIN

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creepy affair with a ghostly Two others in the cast wainscoting every time the hero cluded in "Rob Roy”, James La misguided enough to stay in Robertson, Justice, who played his house alone..

King Henry VIII To robustly and well, and Michael Gough Whether or not one belleves wiro took the part of the

LOVELY STORY

**

p

1s

POLICE WORK

of

The famillar tardmarks London for the background to Д Dutchman", "The Floating and Sydney Tailer. film featuring Dermot Walah

and

The Thames gives up a body, examination a routine shows that the man was mur-. dered before being thrown into the water. His pockets contain a cord with the name of a West End bar printed on it and the name and telephono- num, ber of a notorious fence.

With these clues the polico

"The Glass Mountain" is ro in ghosts, it would be a change, scheming Duke of Buckingham. turning to the Empire screen if sometimes the end of a film

12 again and this very lovely, story about them didn't result in pincy has dealt kindly with is worth a second visit and cer- go to work to track down the everything being explained with the old Scottish tale, Alming it tainly a first if you've missed killer and discover, the reason

et for the crime. cold blooded logic. How nies to in the lovely Trossich country it in previous years.

be left wondering, Instead of coming out feeling cheated.

of Scotland, and eschewing the super-colossal spoctacles to dear

to the heart of Hollywood for amore, simplo and authentic treatment,

Yes, there is the usual con ventional ending to “Shadow of tho, Past"'; but there's also the

The border. battles, are shown requslite amount of earleness!! and in all fairness I must ad as not gaich more than the mit to experiencing an uncom ilds they must have been and fortable feeling when Terence although this is essentially a Morgan was wandering through picture designed for audiences the haunted fat next door, who favour action rather thin "subtlety, it won't prove, in- knowing it was only a matter digestible, ovim to intellectuala. of time until the camera, dis-")] covered the whito-faced lady in black.

The amplior, characters better than the main anes "this picture. A căretaker od by Wylie Watson, and removal mèn 7 made. Dur Morgan - popunkci dummy. Nor wrath com Fhim, and film listatuni

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DANA ANDREWS DONNA REED

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THREE HOURS

TO KILL

DIANNE FOSTER .TECHNICOLOR

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M.

QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA

Tom & Jerry

COLOR CARTOONS

At Reduced Prices!

•

Jean Simmon-Victor Maturo "ANDROCLES AND

› THE LION”

An RKO Picture Roduced Prices: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts.

ROXY & BROADWAY

★ FINAL Showing TO-DAY ★ BROADWAY

ROXY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30

& 9.40 P.M.

Pork Century Fra

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

9.30 P.M.

Black

Widlaw

AGINGER ROGERS

YAN HEFLIN GENE TIERNEY GEORGE RAPT

CINEMA COPE

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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW ROXY:

At 12.00 Noon

BROADWAY:

At 12.30 p.m1,

By Popular Domand

On Our CINEMASCOPE Magic Mirror Screons! "NEWEST TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS PROGRAMME” Presented by 20th Century-Fox

Reduced Admission. —---—-—-—----

ROXY: $1:50, $1.00 & 70 C. BROADWAY: $1.20 & 70 C.

OPENING TO-MORROW Paula gave all for Love ....

because she was

Paula

Released by 20th Century-Fox BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!

Starring Lucia BOSE Massimo GIROTTI

EMPIRE

COMMENCING TO-DAY

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

YEARNING

BURNING

BUT.

Afraid!

•Alrait!

LUPINO HOWARD DUFF JENNIFER

PRODUCTIONS

TO-MORROW SPECIAL MATINEES

$11.00 alm

WALT DISNEY'S COLOUR, CARTOONS

12,30 p.m. John Wayne in *FLYING LEATHERNICKS"

Admission: $1,00, 70 ets, & 40 ots. || | Admission: $1.00 de: 70 cts.

The Garrison Players

CASTING MEETING

for the play

“RELATIVE VALUES”

will be held on

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20th

IN THI" SEAMIN'S MISSIONE

fester Road