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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1955.

KING'S PRINCESS; EMPIRE FILMS-CURRENT

4 SHOWS TO-DAY

AT SPECIAL TIMES

King's At 215,

4.45. 7.15 &

9.40 p.m.

Princess At 2.15,

4.45, 7.15 & 9.45 p.m.

DEMILLE'S TOP HIT

fienr

GOOPER

Cecil B.

Empira At 2.15, 4.45, 7.15 & 9.40 p.m.

THE GREAT AMERICAN STORY! →

GODDARD De Milles

UNCONQUERED

Color by TECHRICOLAR——-—-----

Ceci B. DeMilic

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S A 11.30 A.M.

Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe

in

"MONKEY BUSINESS"

PRINCESS At 11.00 A.M.

M-G-M Technicolor Cartoons "TOM AND JERRY" In CinemaScope

AT REDUCED PRICES

LEE Theatre

AIR-CONDITIONED, OZONIZED AND WARM

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

SHOWING TO-DAY

Rudolf Schock

Germaine Damar

King of the Circus

Sensationen zwischen Himmel und Erde! KONIG PERMANEGE

Ein Ernst Marischka Film der ERMA Produktion im Herzog Filmverleih WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.00 NOON

20th Century-Fox Prozents

MIGHTY MOUSE COLOUR CARTOONS

At Reduced Prices: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts.

Capitol

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7,30 & 9.30 P.M.

ON PANORAMIC SCREEN

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TUNE

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.

Columbia's Technicolor Production ALAN LADD in

"RED BERET"

Reduced Admissions at $1.20, 70 Ct. & 40 Ch.

FINAL

RITZ SHOWING

TO-DAY

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

started with Eval

GINGER ROGERS WILLIAM HOLDEN PAUL DOUGLAS

FOREVER FEMALE

•DUGGAN DUMAI LA INTING MAPPER:

CETABOR and hirodický

PAT CROWLEY

The ferocity and treachery of the Red Indians in "Ua- conquered" mark it as hav- ing been made in pre-good neighbour days. It's such a relief to be able to concen- trate on the plot without having to keep in mind which in A good Indian, which bad and which merely misunderstood.

In "Unconquered" they're all cruel, sadistic savages and the audience is invited to indulge in a little healthy reflection on mental and physical cruelty in all its most loathesome forms.

A

victim of the former Paulette Goddard. In her more preent pletures

ham't bathered to identify horself with the character she's played. Too often she's romped through the Jirt with an alf too obvious tongue in her cheek.

“Linconquered" come before

In this blase attitude sel

AIL she make a sincere attempt to loneliness and project topelessness of the life of Bond Slave, condeinned through

fatall of her own to bc whipped And ロイト hope

bought,

arsaulted with

of

redress from either the low or

what passed na "Society" in the pioneering days.

sungle terms this pleture

the spirit

<if the Amerkan settlers in the Jand-

the of grabbing

180 T'handle

mlies Brow their econfortable birth- + in the cities of the east, Constantly horried by sudistie Loans who spor torture their

AND COMING

By JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

EMPIRE. KING'S

SHOWING

and PRINCESS: “Unconquered". A western, but A front ranker. Gary Cooper, Pauletto Goddard. Henry WilcoxON,

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Brigadoon”. Musical whimsey In Bonnie Scotland. Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Van Johnson

1

QUEEN'S And ALITAMBRA: "The Long Grey Line". A history of the West Point Military Academy seen through AIC the eyes of an Irish emigrant. Tyrone Power Maureen Oʻllara.

The abundance of senga to be fitted in to the narrativo forces

the powerful story to become theatrical, In spite of the everyday setting. This is Inevitable and would not be so obvious if the characters were not so well drawn.

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

SPECIAL TIMES: 2:30, $5.00. 7.20 & 9.40 P.M.

SHOWING TO-DAY

1953

when

the

In

1954

*

One

that it i A forgots photographed opera absorbed in following

of aution

the

story and haulod back to the realisation that it isn't a slice of life by of the self-conscious grouping the chorus and the orchestral background to the songs.

It is

and n most unusual ambitious undertaking for dir- ectar-produerr Otto Preminger to have tried and, in spite of minor faults, comes over with C4 forcefulness and dineetness for removed from the apologetic of muany Box favourites,

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Dance Little Lady",

Ingredient:

acting A ten-year-old dancer and her ballerina mother, a ne'er do well father and a friendly young doctor. Mandy Miller, Mal Zetterling, Terence Morgan and Guy Rolfe.

LEE:

A combination of etreus and "King of the Circus". орега. Vienna State Opera tenor, Rudolph Schock.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Carmen Jones". A present day Carmen, red hot and black. Dorothy Dandridge, Henry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey.

EMPIRE:

COMING

"Along Came Jones", A wealera. Gary Cooper and Poulette (ioddard. A re-issue.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Playgirl", The pitfalls lying lo wali for a country girl in the Big City. Shelley Winters. Barry Sullivan.

was

to #hei

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Betrayed".

spies in Holland during the Gable and Victor Mature.

war.

Sples and counter- Lana Turner, Clark

children before putting them owly to death, they neverthe-

their kry

doggerl proved

WAN

m- prsistence that possible to turn them back.

Ji Best Gary Cooper murde

་

Paramount Dim for mportant

"The way back to 1028 with Winning Of Barbara Worth" and Unconquered,” in

foresight.

which

he starred for the same studio la 1948 must have aface them

satisfied with their very

Never showy but always commanding an attention that by any means nirely due to looks and height, he's the heal outdoor man,

This is a worthwhile Western, though I should advise against taking impressionable children,

STAGE MUSICAL

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD:

Crime thriller with good court scenER. Ann Todd and Kieron Moore.

"""The Green Beart". Michael Redgrave.

Ofco

WDB

Came Jotter" "Along made in the same year as "Un- conquered" and teams Gary Cooper with Loretta Young. Melody Jones Is Kentler character than the Indian nighter

of the Cecil B Do

bad Mille eple however; he's a shot, fond of music and is often bested by The villain, Dan Duryea.

ENTERTAINING

"Playgirl" won't take nny prizes for the deep insight into problems of juvenile delinquency, but it is quite entertaining in is way

It concerns a young

gtrt witho goes to New York to serk her tertune in the fashion country cousins have been doing for centuries.

Shelley An Air Sea Rescue

"The Bea Shall Not Have Them". Service launch rescuing the crew of a ditched Hudson. Michael Redgrave, Anthony Sleelo, Dirk Bogarde.

LEE: "Cadet Rouselle". The adventures of a young French Francois Perier, lad during the French Revolution. Dany Robin and Madeleine Lebeau.

crack

West Point Military opera Carinen and the heroin :'a

attitude to

carly Academy is still in harness at fatalistic the apo of 79, is played, with doth predicted for her is con

uímost

accent uniform

partible with throughout the passing years, animal-Bke reactions. by Tyrone Power.

an

her matinctive.

Berfonte

Signposted there by the ap- parent success of a fellow small town girl she soon discovers that Winters' superficially glainorous existence is founded on the shifting sands of play- boys' affections,

The ingenue role is taka) by Culleon Miller who bears strang resemblance to the dimeer, Ann Miller. She doesn't dance

sing like her more famous double, nor pussess the game exuberance,

does she

but she looks a nice enough lift thing and oven after dis- lisionment sels u, the d-- boiled attitudes

ure obviously resumed.

Nobody can portray a blowsy good-time gia botter than Shelley Winters, though I wish shq would wait with little for her cue

Drawn to Herary His colleen, scouting, mother by a purely physical attraction

kind a ing, befriending and sympathis (the only

Carmen type "Brigadoon" is unashamedly ing from her first withering would be capable of) the pursues a photogmphed stage musical, look to her expiring sigh, is him shamelessly, confident of her

not having scen though

Lines the Maureen O'Hara, and Himself charms, until he expitulates. original show I can't say how Marty's delightful leprechaun

the live of a father is Donald Crisp. closely it sticks to version or whether it gains by

It transfer to the screen.

of

Treating 11 as a piece light entertainment and setting aside its origin it can be said succeeded in its ob- 10 have ject to entertain.

It was

mort

subtlety

In private life people viten do stand with ill concealed Im- patience to get their word into the conversation, but please, not

in front of the camera.

Stro

club

The opening is slow, but the spitfire glorying quite obvious at the

though long, gathers Gola Premiere this wook that picture, the mudience had a warm feel-

wusual

When he becomes clay as her restless hands she abandort him The humour, the pathos, the for a prize fighter and the docan emerald accent are all laid on

above her strikes suspended with a trawel and if you're the with a fatal blow. As you see, type to enjoy a good

ary, for

two spare quite close to Bizet's story,

puts over

night goodness saloc, take two handkerchiefs.

songs with her eyelash- Dorothy Dandridge is a brown fluttering trade-mark and in one

in Iver fcuino

scene gets almost convincingly grace,

When she laughs, she drunk, but she's been better than plty that us it progresses und in Alagen bask her head and rocks this and it seems a

with laughter, when her feelings her high spirits and good natur- for the players. There this scopewhat

are set on a man, as she sings of sensuousers can't be We makers of amusement at 2ower is less pron Exultantly in "Dat's Love", he played to more advantage.

attitudes than custom- arlly. Отп

thoughts just can't get away. For all her second Br perhaps this only appears to be slight build this girl is magni- the caso due to a concerted flocut and the voice of La Vern effort by the rest of the cast to Hutcherson dubbed inter

ing even the most mildly pointed Inex T{

shouts great

of laughter at some of Van Jdm son's more witty remiantos.

role

10

Cm-

the

Barry Sullivan, Gregg Palmer, Richard Long and Kent Taylor are the various men scattered

Lou, unti

Cya Charls ke enchanting reduce him to size whenever sound track fits her like a glove, about the film. Deg the

object of Gene Kelly's he becomes too obstreperous. affections her dancing, singing the and speaking as light as breeze that blow through the mythical Scottish village of Brigadoor.

The plain little Cindy. It could hardly be called o

Beinfonte's girl Henry history of West Point, although Carmen Jones steps in, is hardly

an

"The Green Scarf" is the names of some of the more worthy opponent for the fery unusual thriller with a blind famous CD passing

siren.

homely, deaf mute ng an alleged mur- Freckle-faced through

Are Introduced lato the dialogue. and unfortunately, in spite of dever. When nobody will come As the dear old domine ex- In reality it's the sentimental

ental der obvious goodness, dull, stee's forward to defend his apparent- plains to the two Americans highlights in the

1 of un no match for the steam-roller ly hopeless case it is takers up who have stumbled on the little Irish emigrant, with

1eaty of tactics of Carment Jones, I think by Michael Redgrave, The m place while shooting on.

emphasis on his gratitude to a more attractive girl would moors, back in the 18th cen-

country' that "gave him have better emphasized the dif- shelter and his devotion to the ficulty of Carmen's conquest,

has given blos

urry Scotland was visited by plague of interfering work con called witches ("We have them Army that

security. now," remarks Van Johnson, "Only we

dif- pronounce it ferently").

The minister decided that tho only way to mako Brigadoon

FOR BALLET LOVERS

For lovers of ballet,

As the elderly Lawyer Red- grave is brilliant and is well backed up by his co-stars, With regard to the singing, Kieron Moore and Ann Todd, the only ones that has been Tho suspense leading up to taken with the original is in the the

Surprise climaxwell Libretto Mastcat of the words sustained

tho acting we know them, we have throughout consistently good.

$3

Hammerstein lyrics by Oscar especially safe for ever was to suit God youngsters beginning their fast ex-colloquial, punchy and apt. for a miracle which was for lessons, "Dance Little Lady" The music is as Bizet wrote it into the form of making the will have a lot of interesi. The end you need not be apprehen- village disappear for ever, story is a little sordid and sive, fearing a jazzed-up version The prayer was granted. but melodramatic to take children

itg

mother's

DEEPLY MOVING

NOT THEIR FAULT

Them"

on

E

"The Ben Shall Not Have

will be starting

and Wednesday of next week in such a way that once every to perhaps, but it will probably of the Flower Soug, for instance. hundred years the village and be above their heads and no

while it deals with an intercel inhabitants came back to lasting harm will be done.

ing subject the rescue of earth for one day, exactly 24

Hudson's crew by a launch of hours older than they had been little daughter who do both It concerns a dancer and her

Speaking of the Flower the Air Sea Rescue Service the in the previous century.

Bong, this is probably the best action is rather slow and the used by the unscrupulous huss the picture. Sung by Joo plight of the ditched crew not Fact and fantasy are closely band,

When the Interwoven in thin happy Atle cureur is cut short by an ace sentenes, it is deeply marving,

while norving ble stockade put over with sufficient drama Dim and if Gene Kelly doesn't cident on the man realises that starting quietly in contempla

to excite nity

pity.... dance with his usual verve we his plans to capitalise on her must remember that the years fame will not materialiso, he tive mood, progressing through

action switches back- Tha aro parsing and make do with transfors his nitentions to the

Invective

against the faithless wards and forwards from tho the precision and grace of the child; visualing a life of case Came to end resignedly with floating dinghy to the opera chorus and Kelly's undeniably on her earnings.

the knowledge that whatever 'tional headquarters of. the attractive přivonality.

be is bound to her rescue organisation with inter For me, "Van Johnson nimost There to foll the villain is Guy forever.

of the launch stole the pleture. As the world- Rollë, playing the doctor in love Two repetition in many of the › @w, but although it i'&Mealt by friend of the pixilated Kelly with

Zoterting ough

林

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the Incident more

to see how more action could his cynical comments on the looking, and to my, as though, songs I found a little too long, have. been added, fairytale goings or are prices, he's in need of more molileal they would have been morm Charichinelaslon: 1 would" leer und are a reminder that in attention than his patient, si effective If shortened and this is m spite of his grim voice of lata,

where tho aighat could have":" he still has a sense of humour.“

Markly Miller is the thoroughly been improved on, liicable little girl of the title. TEAR-PROVOKING

The: mála","votees are - miché, The key to "Darmen Jones" is: pleasing than the in the bookcayound to the gradit. Thereʻa" Visas titles, a velvety block screen wling Ne

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