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KING'S PRINCESS

*

At 2.30, 6.13, 7.20 & 9.80 p.m. ŋ At 2.80, 5.30, 7.30 & 0.30 p.m.

SHOWING TO-DAY

DAWN

The story of the LAST OF THE

ATA SOCORRO

Technicolor

FRONTIER GAMBLERS!

RORY CALHOUN - PIPER LAURIE

DAVID BRIAN KATHLEEN HUGHES ALEX NICOL EDGAR BUCHANAN - A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

Added Attraction

On The Stage

The Famous Australian Dance Team "BETTINE and JUDD LAINE"

2.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. Shows Only Regular Prices TO-MORROW EXTRA Morning show

$1.00 & $1,501 Admission: 11.30 o.m. Gregory Peck in

KING'S

"THE MILLION POUND

NOTE"

Technicolor

PRINCESS →→ 11.00 a.m. VARIETY PROGRAMME TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS by 20th Century-Fox

NEXT CHANCE

Technicolor RAILS

INTO

LARAMIE

A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

CAPITOL

THE HOME OF

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LIBERTY

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THE LES

★ FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY ★

A thrilling

story of

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. ON PANORAMIC SCREEN

TEMPTATIONS OF A FIGHTER WITH FAITH IN HIS FISTS! M-G-M presents in EXCITING COLOR

TENNESSEE CHAMP

STARRING

SHELLEY WINTERS KEENAN WYNN - DEWEY MArtin

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

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M-G-M presents THE MOST AMAZING ANIMAL STAR EVER SEEN

estapo and

pursuit in the

wilderness A triumph

of courags over spectaculsa danger!

ON THE SCREEN!

COLT

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SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.

BY REQUEST

M-G-M's Triumph

"SCARAMOUCHE"

Stewart Grangor

Janet Loigh

In Technicolor

HOOVER

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NOW IN

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with

Eleanor Parker

Mel Ferrar

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SHOWING TO-DAY

2.30, 5.30, 7.30

9.30 P.M.

CINEMASCOPE

JOY! MAGIC!··

PURE ENCHANTMENT!-

DISNEY S

Pinocchio

THE

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THE WHOLE WORLD LOVES *.. WITH 7. HAPPY

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“DESPERATE JOURNEY”

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1955.

FILMS -CURRENT AND COMING

The Tennester Chamy"

is one of the most unusual

pictures I've seen for a long time. I couldn't quite swal- low the story, but at least

By JANE ROBERTS

It made an entertaining film. The New Films At A Glance

Keenan Wynn is 'n horiso promoter, a long way from the being straight, at same time far removed from being had. A born gambler, he stakes everything on building up a boy he's saved from drowning, into A champion. There are snags however, The boy is com- pletely honest, will never take part in a fixed fight and wants to use boxing prench religion from the ring.

in

to

sori of

When Keenan Wynn in trying to persuade the hay to go into Boxing, the punch line, in reply to Dewey Martin's protestations that he doesn't care to, and only wants to save sinners is "Then this is it, sinners are as thick as fiens in the fight gamet

Shelley Winters enants along

picture ON

Cricket Lo Keenam Jiminy Wynn's Pinocchio. Whenever he does something particularly questionable, up she popa wave un ademenitory Anger hism. He «kea't always The voke of this wifely selence and even when he does often autreeds in outwitting her in another mildly crooked way. yet the affection betwer them

k warm and rent.

Keenan

10

ot

abey

Wynn is

superb and a Joy to walch

toughle-with-ua - STINA MINcle

anything. heart-of-gold role

Ting

JILD.

wife ስ hard

SHOWING

CAPITOL and LIDERTY: "Tennessee Champ". Prize fighting and it exploitera. Shelley Winters, Keenan Wyun, Dewey Martin.

KING'S and PRINCESS:

"Dawn At Bocorro”, An Indoor western. Rory Calhoun, David Brian, Piper Laurie. HOOVER: "Pinocchio", A Walt Dimér fall length cartoon

re-released In Cinemascope.

LEE: "La Vie Parisienne". A Patistán music hall from 1908 to the present day. Claudine Dupuis, Philippe Lemaire. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "They Who Dare". War- time mission to Grecte, Dirk Bogarde, Akim Tamiroff QUEEN'S sed ALIIAMBRA: "Three For A Show? A mufcnă*

adapted from a Maugham story. Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Margo and Gower Champion.

ROXY and BROADWAY: Prince of Players". The life of Edwin Booth, Richard Burtun, Raymond Massey, Margio McNamara. John Derek.

COMING

CAPITOL and LIBERTY: "Gypny Coll". A title girl and her pet horse. Ward Bond. Frances Dee, Donna Corcoran. "Peautiful Biranger". Crime on the Riviera. Ginger Kozers, Herbert Lom, Stanley Baker, Jacques Bergerzo. "Men Of The Fighting Lady". Naval äts arm action during the war in Korea. Van Johnson, Waller Pidgeon. Louis

ls Calhern. Deway Martin, Keenan Wynn, Frank Lovejoy.

EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS; "Sahrina". Light comedy involving the chauffeur's daughter and the sons of the house. William

Audrey Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Hepburn.

KING'S and PRINCESS:

"Has Into Laramie".

A western.

John Payne. Dan Duryea, Mart Blanchard. HOOVER: “Madame Dußarry”, The rise and fait of the favourite. Martine Carole, Glanna Maria Canale. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Jesse James' Women".

The label on this package fits the contents for Perete Castle, Donald Barry, Jack Beutel, QUEEN'S and ALITAMBRA:

Silar la "A trastroma. ils romance and its tragedy. James Mason, Jack Carson,

Гот him. Living Bghters htt rough description characters if every

1 given examlor, but her 24-carat ben hevurabiy meus of a bullet in IN likewye tinalloyect. while the lung. Dewey Martin puls sincerity Curiosity as to which will last into his role that doesn't detract tonger, the pælure or Calhuain, 18 a deste telling bin. in any way from the ruggedness, tickled by

b trnt

gives up of his nating.

Embling girl friends and noves out of the dusty descr bo the figher ground, Inc days are numbered.

The whole picture could have been rather offensive That i Isn't is due to the directness regimered by all three principal characters every Lime the subjort of religion recBES, The lack of sentiment and sugoribvs Ay nolletable and effective

the wild Dawn At Socorro" wait attention. yuntr

vest

will

unless he

In spite of not carrying a gun ne's very much a mask of actre and it's apparent that this advice is not welcome

we sit back and await results.

I feel the reche in which he Chrony is wa luneral parly rather amusing though

by

puce.

Born". Show Judy Garland,

gimmerings of, honesty siti, re- sents the strength in Calhoun's character,

David Drian makes it Suave heavy, subtly suggesting a belter education than is allowed the

-

Purpessly overacting, he up pears first as a supèrellious for with a reputation for gallantry and lavish spending.

Bored with the lovely Intles for whose entertainment he paya every evening, he falls in love. with a singer at the music hall and, piged at her disinterest, changes identities with a couch- man who regularly drives her home,

"This is the bare outline of the beginning of the picture, which, in the manner of French Alma, is packet with small in- cidents, many irrelevant, bub all contributing to the background of the times,

It's a light-hearted picture And if it appears a little over- long there are two very attrac- tive

watch in the people to principal parts.

At umes the humour is broad, to say the least, but the suh. gloser over the titling coply

implications.

In nji the main

to the dia

parts it is faithful loglie, however, and even some- ono with no French at all couldn't fail to follow the plot.

In the present day sequences 1: intellectualism Left-bank

and there's guyod amusingly Rame e really good jazz played. 1 thought

detected I Bechet introduced into the sound track in one of the cellar club scenes but haven't been able to discover if I was right.

50mc

10

One thing i would like sct: French Ohm about cab- nets that docm't sncuk Offen-, bach's Can Can in somewhere,

"Prince Of Players" has not been previewed and as it started only yesterday I have not yet had a chance to see it. I hope th before next to remedy Saturday and with an eye on the cast at anticipate an interesting afternoon

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

MEN, ARE A DE

SHOWING TO-DAY

►ONTOEST MUSICAL IN VERKS A

CINEMASCOPE

MARGE BOWEN LE✩CHAMPION |

JACK LEMMON

LHREE FOR THE SHOW

TECHNICOLOR

29 SENANG A-HACK KAMPİNITY MAMATĖ SUNCTIONAL SİİBSONOVÉ SOUNDS

• TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS

QUEEN'S

5 SHOWS

"Thras For The Show" EXTRA PERFORMANCE

AT 11.30 A,M.

ALHAMBRA

At 11.30 a.m. Only Columbia's Tochnicolor

"RED BERET"

with Alan Ladd Reduced Prices: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts.

ROXY & BROADWAY

Á SHOWING TO DÂY A

the Owing to length of picture please note change of times:

At 2.30, 5.20, 7:30 & 9.40 P.M.

NOTHING COES RIGHT Perhaps the fact that "Gift Horse", one of the four- funnelled Lease-Lend destroyers in commission again for the Brai time for ifteen years, is the rear escort of the convoy on her way

Britain 18 a bad Nothing, at any rate, seems to go right with her,

usual gambling hull proprietor. An engas breakdown brings

Chief aming the smaller parts the order to proceed Indepen Is that laken by Edgar Buchanan, dently to Londonderry. As the shirt of Socentro who has nothing personal

When

against they get ashore, the fuck of the Cahun, merely a wish to get "Gift Horse" follows the mem this fire cracker out of his ter bera of her crew. Several are involved in a fight with ralings ritory before somebody else ox-v Dieses him, he's u riot

from Captain D's ship and the

of their soboequent

The long night at Socorro br- severity fore Calhoun takes the dawa punishment breeds resentment train out is tens with expecta

tion.

their Captain. Trevor

You know he won't where along the the the

shu in the back because

been enemies want to make the kill title of this picture has ing took legitimat, but the sus changed from the name bestowed

still present.

on the old ship, to "Glory At prise is

Everyone gets more drunk and Sca- change for the worse i more noFVIIK and Buchanan's feel. The filth is showing at the expression longer

and longer Empire next week.

INDOOR WESTERN "Dawn At Socorro" is indoor western, if you're tireg

suhe people may feel it's not in of endless gulkʊps over the desor

the best af taste. and Kun ikgists with the pr

Something I did fine hittir tagonists blazing away at

was has contemphuous other from behind conveniently bizarre placed rocks, yet still get a thri playing of the Moonlight Sonata Tickle <10 at all. at the from

then in the hold request of one of the daner hall

hervie:ses.

Opinions muy bc equally and the final showdown comta The crew, a mixture of the divided over Piper Laurie, the when Rory Calhoun and David TAW and the seasoned, And good little girl trying to play. Brian draw a straight five cards several occasions to look their Jezebel. I wonder where they each for the rich Casino and particular gift horse bitterly in dug up

⚫ christian naine like Piper Laurie. The many the mouth before they und

the girl's Piper-perhaps

con- gamuters in Hongkong will love become 11 emelent nighting tinual ale of bewilderment has this seine. something to do with dislike of It's strange how there's still

Besides Trevor Howard you'll drama left in that hackneyed

oce some trendly faces among slow walk down the deserted the crew, Richard Attenborough,-|

with the my-eyed ad- Sonny Tufts and Bernard Lee

coming versarica

implicably being mark, patriotic and under- from the opposite end, Yes, standing

respectively, nothing

icft out in "Dawn At also Dora Bryan for laughs.

As a yardstick with which to ensure its possible appeal for you, it's comparable with "In

A hacking Kugh hardly seens to be in character for a romumtre gambler, consumption being ex- trenely

hardly Itable Inat glamorous. ani when, in the male of a poker game. Rory Calhoun gives way to an attack we wonder (a)

- Lf It's a cover for clever curd switch or

ut (b} it means that he's destined for an early death, which in tuna sub- divides Into speculation us to whether he'll beet the hangman or succumb detending the right, Later, our suspicions that it's an ongante woukots are dispelled and we discover that the cough

has been

the name

SUNDRY VILLAINS There are Sundry villains street knocking about and

western note: 13. struck by making Rory Calhoun and Alex Nicol enemies, not because of one having taken the others girl or killed his mother, but be- cused by the more cause Nicol, weak, though with

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A vivid description of the night life in Parts! Full of Romance and Humour!

LA Vie

Claudine DUPUIS Philipps LEMAIRE

in

PARISIEN

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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW ROXY: A# 12.00 Noon ·BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m. Bing CROSBY TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Joan FONTAINE

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Suspense is the keynote of "The Suanger', on now at the

New

a sleepy litle town

it was first released you won't Which We Serve." need any urging from me to repeat the visit. If you didn't, then don't miss it this tune.

Although all Disney's feature- lemth

Cartoons are intended Empdro.

In the children, primarily for characters very often express England a fugitive feels that as nchalt sentiments

J. a quiet professor of history in à Worthington Foulfellow. a sly boys' school, and married to the fox, as well as the strictly mom daughter of £

distinguished cricket, Jiming have thele judge, he has

the counterparts in real life.

from his too, to Just od previous career outside the law. often dafited to by parenta Cirson Welles is the wanted as hummed by children and el- man, Loretta Young His with, though the ideas are simply put and the patient "strange???

wall. over it will be a very hard uns0 thg for him to make ope Indeed who will yown through injudicious move mod give him "Pinocchio."

acit bewtry

FAward G. Robinson

The song,

LIGHT-HEART

tracks lectively covere

"UNSOPHISTICATED They've done their best to make "La Vie Parisienne" represcit "Gypsy Colt is for the un- Its title and bi many places it spaimkated and under this Has galety na sparkle,

Hending do not place the unw "La Vie Parisienne" is orifleal or casily pleased. French mustė hill and we fest Word Bond and Frances Des, step over its threshold in 1900-- the parents of Donna Corcoran the prosperous days of un- arc forced by shortagu of limited champagne, cigietis it money to sell the latter's cult with banknotes and pistols at "Gypsy and most of the pic- dawz.

turre

concerned

with The young man through horse's three tries 10. cscape whose eyes wo view this shallow from his

now owner and get world is Fhilippe Lemairo gà back to his adored young fals- the son of the old French family tree. do Barlour.

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