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THE SPARKLING STORY OF 3 SAILORS
ON LEAVE...AND 3 GIRLS IN LOVE!
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Só This SPARIS
ÍNICOLOR
TONY CURTIS GLORIA DE HAVEN GENE NELSON CORINNE CALVET
PAUL GILBERT ✰✰
MARA LORDAY ST MINERI or 1952 erathiNE STARIJE "MISS US & DE 1954" JUTTUA PANSER
A MAGEERNATIONAL PICTURE
PRINCESS
TO-MORROW
At 11.00 a.m.
Feature-length Technicolor Cartoon with
JULIE ANDREWS enacting the leading role
"THE ROSE OF BAGHDAD"
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The
Picture
So Much
Aworded the
CRAND PRIX
INTERNATIONALE,
AT THE CANNES FILM
FESTIVAL AS
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You've
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1955.
FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING
for
A
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Whether ho's crawling through thb Jungle, rour ing down the field touchdown, driving a racing car or dressing up as mediaeval knight, Tony Curtis is still Tony Curtin the brush, "slap 'em down," "what's it to you" Brooklyn boy who never, has whistle for his women - often for the police to ex- tract him from their vigorous attentions.
t
too
However, this la how his fans like him and he's young enough to be able to reserve his acting for later,
Jess exuberant years,
"So Thin is Parts" is no ex-
a lot of ception even though noise has been made about its being his first song and dance cheekily vehlele. It's the same
good looking fee of the All American hero that looks back at you white singing "A Dame's "Daino"
kicking his heels
ly
On
!
By JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
The teher star of the Vientia State Opera, Rudolph Schook is cast as a creus performer th "King of the Circus." perfor ing a triple somersault on a trapeze suspended over a Uger's
cage.
by
The unilleely combination of opera
and circus is rationalised the taking Schock but of
it is dreits when
discovered that he also possesses a volco.
This enables him to wander all over the world warbling in alt the famous opera-housea,
In the background, of there's a little dancing girl who loves him, and a jealous lover to add the third angle to the
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KING'S and PRINCESS: “So This is Paria", Tony Cortin dancing and singing with assistance from Genb Nelson. Alsó Includes Glörfa be' Haven, Corlano Cartei adn Mara Corday. HOOVER: "Trouble In The Glen", A American Laird Orson getting a chilly welcome from the Highlanders. Wellen, Margaret Lockwood and Forrest Tubker. LEE: "One Suradies of Happines". The khort-lived happi-
NCES of two youll loverk,
triangle. Ulla Jabobhabi and Falko Sundquist, NEW YORK aba GREAT WORLD: "Arrow In The Dust".
A western. Bterlink Hayden and Colleen Gray. QUEEN'S and ALIIAMBRA: "A Star Is Bories Show busl- nem, lis romance and trakedy. Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, ROXY and BROADWAY:
The Return of Frink James".
One of the better old tible westerns; this orb was made in 1940. Henry Fonda, Gens Tierney: Jackto Cooper.
COMING
"Unconquered”. A western, but a front ranker when i was inaila in 1947. Gary Cooper, Padlette God" dard. Henry Wilcoxon, KING'S Ada PRINCESS:
EMPIRE:
#
K
up in "Wait T Paris Sees Uu and although he does extremes
well in both, It's dancing and singing that will continue to endear him to his fung, but his bolsterous devil- may-care personality
Gene NeEss spetalty dancing in the ple- Reting Cal Colver as flare, his rewturd, while Curtis 15% pared with Gloria De Haven
BE PUNCTUAL!
JI
loc
the
you can picture Orson Wiltes as the Lalid of a Scottish custies sporting a sporron and Reiting a ducking in his own joch you'll have an idea of what Trouble to The Glen" is about. Deciding that he's had enough and that it's of South Amerien time he work
his & look
ancestral estates in Scotland.
Orson Welles
Big Business Man from his opulent eigur
well-polishes shoe.c descends un that independent hiki like an elephant Betting among a pack of terriers.
the Punctuating
with the local parrel habitants
the exchanges are between Forrest Thicker
Laird's 1-
(a
USAAF Major returning to his wartime hunting grounds) and the Laird's unpopular Archie Duneay bac
Margaret
betwe Heard
"ONE SUMMER OF HAPPINESS"
{ WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES }
ULLA JACOUSSON
FOLKE SUNDQUIST
ELVIN ADOLPÅSON
Exerted by ARNE MATTSSON
Free her sowel "BOMISARDANSEN I, PER ULOT EKSTROM
A LYRICAL SWEDISA FILM Released Thru Pakho Onvrseas, Lid,
MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.00 NOON
Paramount Presents
ALL TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
$1.50, $1.00 G 70 Ch.
At Reduced Prices:
COMING
Rudolf Schock Germaine Damar
im
KÖNIG DER MANEDE
King of the Circus
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WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES En Eral-Masicka-Film der ERMA-Produktion im Herzog-Filmverleih
NEW YORK GREAT WORLD
Causeway Bay, Tol 18721. Köwlson, Tel. 83500
FINAL TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5,30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. Mighty Spectacle in Color by TECHNICOLOR
ARROW
THE DUST
Siti" HAYDEN & Colet" GRAY
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
NEW full of vitality"-
UGETSU
und
Laled's (Th
daughter) Tucker, UPLE added interest provided by the ruggle back to health of a little girl stricken by pollo.
western.
Audle
"Erum Across the River". Murphy, Lyle Betigor.
A
"Unconquered pitfalls lying in wait for a country
"Plazglet".
HOOVER:
land.
girl in the Big City. Shelley Winters, Barry Sullivan. "Brigadoon". Musica! whimper in Bonnte Beot- Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Vah Johnson,
Rples and counter-spies In Holland "Betrayed". during the war. Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Victor Mature, A combinatios of birctis and LEE: "King of the Cired”.
opera. Vienna State Opera tenor Rudolph Schock,
The adventures of a "Cadet Rousselic". French lad during the French Revlution, Porter, Dany Robin and Madeleine Lebeau. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Ugeten Monogatarı". 16th century Japanese drainá about two peasint familles harassed by the ideal wats, Kintyo Tanaka, Machi-ko Kyo and Masayuki Mori.
young Francol
"Dance Little Lady". Ingredients: A ten-year-old dancer and her ballerina mother, a ne'er do well father
Mandy Miller, Mai Zet and a felendly young doctor. fering. Terence Mergan and Guy Rolfe.
A QUEEN'S and ALKAMURA: "World Soccer Cup 1854".
full length feature of the same played In Switzerland, The Long Grey Line". A history of the West Point Millary Academy seen through the eyes of an Irish emigrant Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.
"Assanato For Hire". Unusual ROXY and BROADWAY:
type of criminal played by Bydney Tafter.
"Carmen Jones”. A present day Carmen, red hai Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte. Pearl and black. Bailey.
course,
NOT CHEERING
hash't "tireisi "Monorstar!" the same amount of dramatic and force as had "Rashomon" Bometimes
осств to wander This may be havng
from the point
duo to the screenply
been taken from two separate stories.
The odd mixture of fantasy and reallyn
the
same, however, and the photo- graphy as clear and uncluttered. I have never seen a Japanese and in modern dress picturo
do not know consequently whether the formal gestures and stylised neting are used universally on the Japanese they OTO screen or whether confined to period pieces.
The technique is unquestion
in effective ably
the ghost storica that make up a large of Chinese and Japanese literature though less so when applied to present day rubjects.
percentage
The two stories welded to- gether in this ploture concern the lives of two families, one a peasant and his wife childless And the other
a polter, his wife and child.
Their ambitions are simple. The peasant, ired of the cease less struggle on the land, Wanle In become it soldier, against the counsel of his wife. The other wants to better the lot of his neglecting wife and child by
his tarm and concentrating on
ni that
16th
making ever larger batches of pottery to sell at a vast probl to the victorious army in power
perlod in the
Both have their moment of short-lived
but in triumph,
century
"The Return of Frank James" the process lose what they had originally. The passant's wife
first saw the light in 1940 and is forced to become rute
is being
"20th is re-born under Century Fox Encore Hit" label.
because, with his
in the picture, si to speak.
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U.S. the VET SUS Indians
Il briefly brings in Tyrone dreams, her husband has gone Cavalry again in "Arrow in the Power who starred in the even off to fight without leaving any
provision
the for her; and Dust with Sterling Hayden as a deserter who ses the light cartier "Jesse James" and then pro
to show Henry Fondo potter, bewitched by the rest- I loved this picture. It's been
a princess, returns alled
in time to lead a wagon train goes on much whimsey, too
bordea
of attacking tracking down the killer of his icas ghost of
to find his wife dead and his notorious brother Jesse, Welles. unrealistic, and what through
Indians to the safely of Fort the to nie, ali have you, but
The youthful looks of Henry house in ruins, Laramie.
I tell you all this to give you Victor
Gene Tierney and John (including actors
absence of idea of the MacLaglen in n kill) registered
Tho Johnny complete belief in the characters
the cently in
Guitar"?) are a rather cruel reminder of they were playing.
Indluns 10 attack. Gone arc
ters the passage of Ume, and it seems screenwriters
a little sad that firat run cinemas make their a
should be forced to go back the settlers
wards.
Welles is always flamboyant,
he always overacts, yet his prwerful personality forces you
Laurence
or
#
ch
in the woodplle Carradine (remember him re- aughter In this picture.
The nigger In a renegade gun runner who is responsible
the days
were
for inciting
when nilowed to
harry
Redskins
Pro- the cesses being used to combat
be
spite of being acting, in mannered, appears to be sincere though sometimes from the sub titles, the words ascribed to the players arÉ not reflected
in
to listen to what he has to say, from plain bad temper--nowa-
their faces A "HEAVY" AROUND He is not at all an improbabic
to be Innocent
It's not a picture to be dis- When "So This Is Paris" person to find in the Highlands days they have
of their rightful pro finishes, another picture from suggest a visit if you're feeling defenders
indssed lightly, put I wouldn't when one considers that anyong party, a little trigger-happy can rent the shooting in certain
in Justified their the same studio will be showing depressed. The impiled promise quito and
of but the possibility brutality. parts
at the King's and Princess, with
that for every one person's suc- #1 Alm star meeting
Coleen Gray is Hayden's in- Mara Corday featured in both. ces there must be a correspond- 15 by maharajah
no means
From the glitter of present day ing sufferer is not spiration.
& cheering remote.
RATHER SAD
Paris alle is transported west to thought. HAS BOTH
gaudy saloons of 19th In spite of the importance of Although the various
Century Colorado Territory, When he luck of good look-
the part played by the ghostly "Drums ing British stars with acting Television's hold on British and features Audio Murphy, Lyle (Kimyo Tanaka) who is
Acroon the River" princess it is the potter's wife ability
is deplored 1 wonder American audiences have proved why
McCallum's
Boliger and the grand old charac- erally acknowledged to be the name effective, their use has created John
ter Betor, Waller Brennan, Hot, first lady of the Japanese screen. docs not minediately spring to a problem of its own. mited. He's got both looks and Because of the enormous cost alas,
for on alcol and in achiflion forceful
ful involved
years and surprisingly in making these to that approach
The age-old problem of wha! Oriental star, has also directed. akes mammoth affairs, no studio can rugged ruch established stars as Richard afford to produce a Sop. Be to do when something you want
JUST RUTHLESS Todd
and
Harvey lieving that all the publle wants is under the territory of some-
"Assassin For Bite" departs look quite anaemic.. He has the Is size and speetdele and that a one else who doesn't want it quality or Btting snugly into any modest pleture penetrating be- but w' give it up is posed in from the customary conception part he tales, so that
of a killer by showing him as a while low the surface and piercing the "Drums Across the River! -
home-loving fellow, faithful to watching him it's impossible to
Intelligence will have no Box the treasure истова the river
his wife, doyoted to his brother imagine him in any other role,
Office appeal, no backlog of being gold, and the legal owners and ruthless within being Hos a gypsy in "Trouble in small
has been reserved the Ute Indians.
brutal the Glen", the son of Victor
for comedy short runs. Naturally there's a "heavy"
The kindly, even-tempered Cons. Instead of some around to blame for misleading Machaglen and the sly enjoy ment with which he stands on beat
thriller
corporal you'll soon be seeing The Sea Shall Not Have the Bidelirada watching the between two colossal chunks of
bloodthirsty massacres and fust -Them' is the assassin of the Verriono little feuds and giving expensively mangled history, we
Tager as naturally t's proved that if file Sydney them a sight otroke from time get a re-release.
treated nicely, the understanding Ronald Howard, Lealle Howard's to time is a delight.
Granted some of the old Indians will agree to a Herbert Wilcox produced and pictures are worth reviving, but treaty in favour of honest Audio trying to break his
this Am directed
in Trucolor doesn't give much of a chance and his friends,
It think special mention to the newer actors. No studio should be made of the Director is going to risk a new face in a of Photography, Mux Greene, project that's costing it inillions his gorgeous Highlanthe more it spends the more
certain it must be that the com Before leaving "Trouble In pleted work is going to earn lis The Glen" I'd like to urge you, expenditure.
for
Bechery,
you intend seeing it, to make Even the independent British sure you get there in time not companies are finding it diff to miss the opening. It's in the cult to swim against the current form of am, acid introduction'pf and it wouldn't surprise me to himself to the audience, deliver- see "The Ghost Goes West” and ed by, Orson Welles leaning on contemporary --pletures · rovived the mist shrouded gate to his instead of more of "The Young estate, and is an ideal way of Lovers" lk.
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JUDY GARLAND JAMES MASON Staris B
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JACK CARSON CHARLES BICKFORD
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-1954.
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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5.30, 7:30 & 9.30 P.M.
Again the name of James, spreads terros over all the West!
HENRY FONDA
in
THE RETURN OF
FRANK JAMES
... to avanga the murder of Jezust
TECHNICOLOR
ana 20en Canary For Intern. Frank 1
TO-MORROW
ROXY: At 12.00 Noon
Doan MARTIN Jerry LEWIS
In
"MY FRIEND IRMA
GOES WEST"
A Paramount Picture
GENE TIERNEY JACKIE COOPER HENRY HULL FONNÍ KARMADING » L (DWARE PREMIERE – HORANG MAIN EDGE PALLIES - NERONE BAINMEN
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भ
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TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
PROGRAMME
In CinemaScope Presented by
20th Century-Fox & Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
· ·Reduced Admission
Roxy:, $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Ct. Broadway: $1.20 G 70 Cir.
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TÓ-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
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TONY CURTIS. JANET LEIGH DAVID FARRAR - BARBARA RUSH
·HERBERT MARSHALL Infratchet
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"THE LITTLE GIRL NAMED CABBAGE”
A Chinoso Picture
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BRIGADOON
THE BIG BROADWAY MUSICAL, COMES DANCING AND ROMANCING TO THE SCREEN
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