1955-04-16 — Page 2

KING'S PRINCESS

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.80 p.m. 11. as 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

OPENS TO-DAY

THE STORY.

OF A LOVE

WITH THE

LAW AT

ITS HEELS!

Naked

Alibi

starring

STERLING HAYDEN - GLORIA GRAHAME COBAIN GENE BARRY - MARCIA HENDERSONTM

A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

★TO-MORROW ★

KING'S 5 SHOWS "NAKED ALIBI"

Extra Show at 11:30 a.m. Regular Prices

́PRINCESS At 11.00 p.m.

"TOM & JERRY" M-G-M Tech., Cartoons in CinemaScope Reduced Prices.

GRACE KELLY

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER

for her best performance in the Dramatic Thunderbolt of the Year!

MAGNIFICENT ACTING...POWERFUL EMOTION...SUPERB DRANA!

BING

GRACE

WILLIAM

CROSBY KELLY HOLDEN

in A PERLBERG-SEATON Producten

THE COUNTRY GIRL

Produced by WILLIAM PERLBERG » Written for the Screen and Dieczed by GEORGE SEATON · From the play kry Chilford Odam - A Paramount Picture

Coming to KING'S • PRINCESS • EMPIRE!

EMPIRE

COMMENCING TO-DAY

3 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30 P.M.

KIČNARE.

OBERON TODD GENN

24 HOURS

of a Woma

TO-MORROW MATINEE AT 12.00 NOON WENDELL COREY în

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Sabrina

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CAPITOL SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 11.30. A.M.

An Indian Triumph "NEEL KAMAL”.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1956.

FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING

In The Nakëd· · Alibi"

Sterling Hayden is a lone. wolf tracking down a killer.

with Deborah Kerr in these scenes the picture rises above the ordinary, but when the re- Tigious angle creeps in, his in- It is perhaps difficult for mo .some of us to understand peaceful

he behaves like a schoolboy. how an independent. force that bis real mother is alive, Deborah Kerr handles her John Millis little part in the such as the Police can be at has traced him and wants him role with a sureness of touch picture, though a cameo in it-

back

that combines femininity with self, would have been better in- the mercy of political

When the two mothers face trigue, but from the Holly- each other in the Courtroom it strength. One feels that here la: cut. He is a private detective although his evidente wood point of view it seems is apparent that both have suf-worldly girl, trying against the and

of her nature to find the is material to the story, his to be quite commonplace. fed much and that although truth--occasionally glimpsing it character is not, and the casting

nothing can right the wrongs stumbling, losing it and at of an When we talk of "politics", done

Yugoslavian a picture of the House of woman or repay the love and times hating the God who is dificult 10T Commons possibly springs devotion of the German, malding things to

In spite of the fact that to mind with Honourable of them is going to have to her.

the ca.20

Belief, versus Gentleman and even Right

Atheism Good perfomances come from

not proved, we can Honourable Gentlemen stab- every One of the players, sympathise with her struggle.

The problem of the religious other bing at each

with Gentleness and sympathy from

German Cornell Borchers and netfle is almost impossible words. On the screen it Austriar. Armin Dahlen as the treat convincingly en the see "Untamed"

By JANE ROBERTS

visitors interrupt the events from two different view tellect seems to desert him and

with the pews 'points: life

usually means a Big Boss at the City Hall sometimes a racketeer, more often a vote-conscious party poli- tician on the verge of an election dictating hia personal policies to the ad- ministration and hiring and firing top Police officials with the unpredictability of a buyer at an auction sale.

Victim of one of these moves from the body running his city is Sterling Hayden:

Given orders to clean up the lown, he is nevertheless thrown out of.. his job for being loo brutal with suspeels

though who. guilty, always have a cast-iron

حالات

Some attempt is made in this picture to make this lonely. self-sufficient automaton come to Ufe. He's not just the con- the man that

ventional cop.net

hunting,

to the

lese her childi. -

urge

foster parents, and fire, bitter- screen,

10.

actor of John Mills calibre in the rale gives it an importance out of proportion to its bearing, on the story.

Western In Natal

:

you have not yet been to and you like If one of the actors is your westerns on a grand scale with a slightly different twist from the usual US Cavalry versus the Indians theme, then the Roxy and Broadway will have what you're looking for.

little

Susan Hayward and Richard Egan together in "Untamed".

the

The principals have, more to do than stride through the fighting, looking brave and deant and in Susar Hay- the ward's case attractive in

the change gingham, but scenery from the well-worn Arizona desert is welcome,

The charge on foot at

South African equivalent of

of

alone coming run, but the drum.

ming of their spears against their shields, their deep-throated menacing cries as they advance. and their more powerful build sccm much more terrifying then mounted charges of the Red Indians.

The

¿quareness and solidity of the mountains of Natal photo- graph well and Henry King has inanaged to catch the vastness grandeur of the country. that and 1

lay open to these early settlers. Faced with large scale com-

from petition

the new wide Susan Hayward open spaces, aristocratic Irish girl who will tries

hard to look like on Jet nothing stand in the way of Deborah Kerr's husband what she wants. Tyrone Power (Peter Cushing) is allowed his seems to be endlessly riding to embarrassment it is part of his her rescue in the nick at time abandoning her to character to treat the abstract and thes with mistrust-out Van Johnson lend his Commandos on to fight a writer again, as in "The Last for a Dutch Free State. Richard Time I Saw Paris") should Egan too keeps turning up in have been made of sterner stuff. unexpected places and for such His bewilderment has nothing leege country South Africa little short of elbow of the adult about it. As the stems

he believes to be guilty so be can return to the organiva tion that threw him out and ness and intensity coupled with able to seize it without fear of prove that he was right, and a pathetle childlike quality from its sting, it is fairly safe to Sterling Hayden gets the feel Yvonne Mitchell as the real predict that most of the rest of

We haven't of the role" well.

mother.

cast will touch it timidly There are very few conven- with varying degrees of dis- seen enough of this actor decide whether he really merits tional trimmings to this picture, comfort:

the backgrounds are austere lit the title his roles in the past haven't called for much more was filmed by Ealing Studies In the interiors than height (he is, six feet four) Yugoslavin) and and a pleasant voice-but "The simple, but in spite of slipping Naked, Alibi" at least holds out at times into sentimentality it promise that there is more was obviously made with less of to him than has previously tin eye to the money it would earn than with the intention of been used.

faithfully presenting a human problem.

a

Incorporated into the act is a very slinky rendering of the

jazz tune "Ace in the Hole" by Graham Greene Again lover he is on safe ground and room.

Gloria Grahame who is once more true to type. I would be amusing to see her in, say, a Mrs Miniver rele, but she does so well as the good bad girl with the odd unexpected line of dialogue that it would perhaps be a pity to change the tune just yet.

Gene Barry is the villain, convincing in the early stages of the picture, but surrendering to the melodrama of his lines as the picture draws to its corpse strewn close.

A Human Problem

More than half the first run cinemas are giving us pictures Ulus week-end, that have some appeal for the mind as well as the eye.

well by Hongkong is doing Graham Greene. A few weeks ago we had "The Heart Of Tho Matter", a few days ago The Stranger's Hand" and now, "The-End of the Affair

From the point of view of. action

and story, the former two outweigh the current, im but

provoke as a picture, to thought and discussion it has it over the other two:

IL has Graham Greene's favourite ingredients: the bus- band, wife and lover; the sense of sin conflict between worldly desire and the teaching of the Roman Catholic religion; and the inevitable sunse or doom.

This is a combination that should pack a pretty powerful

"The Divided Heart" brings to the screen a dramatised punch. Anything secretive has version of the problems dealt with by the United States Court of the Allied High Commission for Germany. It was a difficult decision for the Court.

Two women claim the right to provide for the future of an eight-year-old boy. Both have equally strong cases and both have, suffered in the past from trying to protect him.

an instant appeal, especially in the cinema, and illicit love has the biggest pull of all. Ally train this with a religious bearing on one of the guilty parties and right up to the final reel, in spite of a lack of action, the audience should be kept on tenterhonks wondering shuution will be how the resolved.

He is in reality a Yugoslavian.

Deborah Kerr's motives keep boy whose father was shot as a you guessing is she a light o Parlisan by the Germans when love, married to a serious civil the child was a few months old, servant, but Binging hersel his sisters

wildly into affair after affair were taken away,

'until she tires of her prey and never to be heard of again and

returns to her uncbservant his mother was sent to a con-

husband? Or is she a passionate centration camp. The horror ci the

child's existence unti! woman, tom by a desire for a adopted by its young German God she can really believe in foster parents some three years and a man with whom she can later is left to the imagination. share not merely a house and As the boy at eight years, Michel name, but her whole life. Ray, is extremely good, but With the licence granted the Martin Keller (portraying the camera to show only what the displaced child at the age of director wishes the audience to three) registers Luch dumb tee, the feelings and actions of terror at the sight of a German Deborah Kerr are purposely mis. uniform and lighted cigarette leading. Sometimes we plly her that it made me feel uncomfort and believe in her, and at others able that any child should have she seems a calculating harpy. to go through such obviously Edward Dmytryk (the director) real emotion for the sake of a plays with our susceptibilities in the autoeraite manner of a screen performance,

Having learned to trust and puppet master, except that he love his new parents, the boy creates the illusion that we, the at eight is happy in his home audience, and not the cast, are in the Bavarian Alps with his dangling from the string at his school friends, his ski lessons

ingertips. and the interesting business of I particularly like his trick of growing up, when suddenly two showing the same sequence of

The LINDEN PLAYERS

present

WHILE THE SUN SHINES By TERENCE RATTIGAN

on

Monday & Tuesday, April 18th & 19th at 8 p.in.

at the MISSIONS TO SEAMEN Scats at $5 & 53

Obtainable at Moutries and at the door,

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Last Time I Saw Paris". Sentimental, yel difficult to resist, Van Johnsen, Eliza- beth Taylor. Donna Reed and Walter Pidgeon.

A killer at KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Naked AllыP":

large and the chase lends to the Mexican border. Sterling Hayden, Cloris Grahame and Gene Barry. LEE: "The Divided Heart", Moving story about a displaced .child. Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell and Armin Dahlen,

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Modern Times". The world famous clown playing in one of the pictures that made him famous. Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard, QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "The End of the Affair". Graham Greene's triangle set in war-time London with religion intervening. Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson and Peter Cushing.

ROXY and BROADWAY: “Untamed", A South African "western on a grand scale, Susan Hayward, Tyrone

Power and Richard Egan.

LEE:

COMING

EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Country Girl". Two people fighting to restore the self-respect of a drunken actor. Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and William Holden. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Bad Day at Black Rock". Dis- mounting at a whistle stop a stranger stumbles on a four-year-old mystery. Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan. "The Secret Heart": Romance from Mexican siars Dolores del Rio and Pedro Armendariz. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "They Rode Wes!", A doctor attached to the US Cavalry tries to befriend the Indians. Robert Francis, Donna Reed, May Wyan and Phli Carey. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Racers". The lives and loves of the men who live for the excitement of car racing. Kirk Douglas, Bella Darvi. Cesar Romero and Katy Jurado.

ROX & BROADWAY

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ROXY: AN 12.00 Noon Marlene Dietrich

Mel Ferrer...

***RANCHO NOTORIOUS”- In Technicolor

TYRONE POWER SUSAN HAYWARD RICHARD EGAN...

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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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SHOWING

FROM NOW ON ALL LOVE E STORIES WILL BE MEASURED

AGAINST THIS ONE...

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DEBORAH

VAN

KERR JOHNSON

JOHN MILLS

The End of the Affair

From the novel by

Overby EDWARD DMYTRYK

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS

QUEEN'S

• 5 SHOWS "THE END OF

THE AFFAIRS" EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M.

ALHAMBRA

AT 11.30 AM. ONLY WB's Technicalor

"Calamity Jane"

with Doris DAY At Reduced Prices -

LEE Theatre

'AIR"CONDITIONED, OZONIZED AND WARM

FINAL TO-DAY

́DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. AWARDED BY UNITED NATIONS AS BEST FILM OF 1954

CORNELL BORCHERS as best foreign actross BRITISH FILM ACADEMY 1954 AWARD:

YVONNE MITCHELL as "best British actress

For the roles they play in this film

The impact of

2- THE DIVIDED UBART"

will still be with you

long after you have left the cinema

Saturday

ICH GALOONadartni

CORNELL BORCHERS YVONNE MITCHELL" ARMIN DAHLEN ALEXANDER KNOX

"Divided Heart

MICHEL BAY SCOFFRET KEEN

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NEXT CHANGE.

Dolores Del Rio Pedro Armendariz

in

"SECRET LOVE” Released thru Columbia

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The Wildest Beauty in the Paris Whirl!

She lived fully as though noch day was her last!/

presents in color by TECHNICOLOR

THE

LAST TIME I SAW PARIS”

SFABRICS

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

VAN JOHNSON

WALTER PIDGEON · DONNA REED

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