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KING'S PRINCESS

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1955.

FILMS CURRENT AND COMING

"Green Fire" is a swash-

AI 2.30, 515, 720 & 9.30 pm | at 2.30, 3.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. buckler of the type that

SHOWING TO-DAY

BUD

BUD and LOU are HIGH-FLYING

LOU

ABBOTT COSTELLO

MIRET

STUNTMEN.......

KEYSTONE KUPS

and Hollywood will

never be the same!

- FRED CLARK - AYNI BAN - MACK HOSERBLAON

A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

ALSO: "LATEST BRITISH PARAMOUNT. NEWS 1955 CUP FINAL AT WEMBLEY

KING'S

TO-MORROW

at 12 noon

A SPECIAL PREMIERE PERFORMANCE

G. ULANOVA

World-Known Soviet Ballerina in

"STARS OF RUSSIAN BALLET featuring “TİLE SİVİN'S LAKE", "FOUNTAIN OF BARCHISSARAI" and "FLAMES OF PARIS"

In Glorious Color

Admissions: $1.50, $2.40, $3.50

BOOKING NOW OPEN!

FPRINCESS

TO-MORROW

Extra

Ar 11.00 a.m. U-I & Columbia present

A Variety Programme of

Shows

Technicolor Cartoons & The 3 Stooges

At Reduced Prices!

At 12.10 p.m. A Superb Indian Picture

Shakila Sajjan

A

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Bhagwan in

"HALLA GULLA” Produced & Directed by Bhagwan Music by Chicchocolet and Nissar 15 Reels At Regular Prices

LEE Theatre

AIR-CONDITIONED AND OZONIZED

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

SHOWING TO-DAY

· "Nover sit with your back to the door.....”.

COLUMBIA HIGIDLES pemaents"

THE LAW vs.

BILLY THE KID

Starring

SCOTT BETTA BRADY - ST. JOHN

The

srum

story

of

1bo deodliast

killer in the West!

TECHNICOLOR

Story and Scieve Play by JAN 1, WILLIAMS » Prohead by SALE KATZEAN A STRIBES, WALIAM CASTLE'

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MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.00 NOON MIGHTY MOUSE COLOUR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Ct,

ROXY & BROADWAY

★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★

looks tidy on Stewart Granger, but would make many a better actor look ridiculous..

Perhaps I'd better quality the description by saying that

swashbuckler It's 3

wishest swords, castle walls and musty clungsons.

The swash and the buckle all come from Stewart

Granger's swaggering portrayal of a present-day-adventurer..

The director obviously start- ed off with the idea that Mr Granger must a devil-may- be

care Romes who has mad lost tertunes, acquires a mining degree and a wise-cracking partner somewhere along his chequered carver, is persuasive and alt-gether a very dashing fellow,

The clay of Mr GRADKÉT must have, been slightly re- sistant this time, however,

as

By JANE ROBERTS

That's Stewart Granger on the left syrypying a jaks village in "Green Fire"

have found their way under- Bank Robbery

ground.

I

On A Saturday

western garb, but

to

The latest picture"gloritying his

QUEEN'S & ALIAMBRA

Th, 315, MARINA DA,

questionable exploits, H SHOWING TO-DAY

Just misunderstood young fellow, forced in the

the first in

stance by the code of the West (remember the fun Jack Carson. had with

this in "Red Garters") to kill a man in self- defence, and as a result was sucked deeper and deeper into. trouble.

י

In "The Law vs Billy the Kid" Scott Brady plays him as a hot tempered young man, m patient of curbs and more than a shade: irresponsible, but with à rigid

fairplay, a could Juxury afford

in walch

54.

to indulge, as nobody could beat him to the draw!

Betta St John, for once out

of native girl costume, is bis faithful

hating sweetheart violence, but having such inner goodness and sweetness.

"Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystoid Kops" is a fake sample of the kind of humour we've come to expect from this pair. They lose and make money with cqual case, fool and are fooled, "Violent Saturday" will at with no apparent rhyme or almost certainly still be on reason, yet mirage to keep their Both England and France had next week-end, and when I script free from bad taste and prominent part in Haiti's past have had a chance to see it their gags from offensiveness." then, until the rise of Toussaint I will deal with it in more Now Gable Goes L'Ouverture and Henri Chris- detail. tophe brought the negroes to the top.

a petty gambler who firts with his typist, has a talking know-

When Columbus first discover.... ledge of mining and is sulky ed it there were Indian fisher- rather than dangerous when a living there, but their crossed.

numbers dwindled as a result of somebody Not

whom the pirate raids, #ghts over gold aristocratie Grace. Kelly, owher and the sudden withdrawal of of South American coffee the protection of Spain, plantation. Would be likely to fall in love with however lone- by her position in a million feet of celluloid.

on the other Paul, Douglas, hand, is the dependable type. Very much against his will he

Immense sugar fortunes were throws in his lot with his part-

when Slewart Granger being amassed through all these glowing picture of troubled times as well as a vast paints

of captured wealth emeralds to be picked up almost amount as easily as stones from a moun- brought in by the pirates, so tain

he's discovered. Douglas the burred

stres e muite must have found this a very "The Golden Mistress" is quite pale role compared with some of within the bounds of possibility. the others he's had in the past

seckers are John Agar and is often appears as if having and Rosemarie Bowe.

realised that

do with it, he's much he can given in a minimumn amount of attention, allowing what line- light there is to fall on Stewart Granger.

there's nothing

Now don't take it for granted that this is a dull picture—some

of the lines are quite funny and

The

Retrospect In

A Death Cell

"Cell 2455, Death Row"

much of the action is lively. It's is a grim, "brutal picture started just that it's merely another about a boy who adventure story with many loose ends left untied that could have stealing from necessity but been played just as well by second class feature players, a hardened criminal with no leaving at least two of the three pity or feeling for anyone.

stars to turn their attention to something more worthy of their capabilities.

in the course of time became.

For the moment, from what I've read of the plot, from what we've come to expect from the actors and from the trailer, it looks like being geed phm.

It's a mixed bag of action. sure to tumor sidder

a little humour added as a seasoning.

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West

When Clark Gable was here recently making "Soldier of Fortune he answered a lot of provoca tive questions about his The three would-be bank public and private life but robbers her J Carrol Naish, didn't include any news of Lee Marvin and Stephen

a

Nally, but don't expect

types from all of them."

future commitments. We now learn that he has 100 have their problems and signed to appear in a multi- some of the town's sterling million-dollar western to be

characters zre, to even

the

score, not quite as upstanding made in colour and one of the new big-screen pro as they appear to be.

Still Quick On

The Draw

"He never drew first and Serving several prison sen- he never shot second". This tences before finally receiving the death penalty he comes was the epitaph of one of .over on the screen as such a the screen's favourite bad

swaggering little men-Billy the Kid.

Search For Hidden rule

Treasure

cesses.

There are four women's roles in The Last Man in Waren. Mound, but the names of the rest of the cast have not yet been announced.

Susan Hayward is with him in

of "Soldier Fortune", Jane

Russell in the almost completed "Tall Men" and "both" Jeanne Crain starred with him in "Gentlemen Marry Brunet

ail three will tee-possibly

hoodlum that it's difficult to I don't know the history of shoot it out with him in The find for him even the instinctive this juvenile delinquent in Last Man in Wan Mound". sympathy to be felt for anyone

on the rin.

But the most frightening thing In Haiti a man who has a about the picture Is the "Golden Mistress" is a man part showing juvenile cold bloodedly who is always searching for delinquents hidden treasure or at planning "thel; hold-ups least, so the Press Book on this picture tells me.

Many

sets of circumstances

could have gone into the mak ing of an adult criminal, put The history of this island has for youngsters to take to crime been stormy enough for any for the sheer love of it seems Lumber of family fortunes to infinitely depressing.

L

Another scene from “Green Fire”

Owing to length of picture please note change of times: ́AROUND AND

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

THE DAY

ALL HELL BROKE

LOOSEJ..

20th Century Fox

PLENTZATURDAY

This will be James Cagney's

year, I predict. I caught the

Invitational sneak-preview"" "of "Mister Roberts," in Los Angeles

of the bitter, hardboiled skipper

of a U.S. Navy cargo ship that. kraansaasayı

you'll long remember. In "Tum

by

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

"Green Fire”. A search for HOOVER and LIBERTY:

emeralds in. South America involving the glamorous owner of a coffee plantation. Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly and Paul Dontlas

"Abbott and Costello Meet the KINGS and PRINCESS;

Keystone Kops". The famous comedy team become film utats.

LEE:

"A Hundred Little Mothers". An Italian picture with English siblities. William Tubb.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: The Golden Mistress". Adventure story set in Halt. John Agar and Rosemarie

Bowe.

The

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Cell 2245, Death Bog

case history of 2 criminal, told from the death cell William Campbell.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Violent Saturday". Three bank robbers plan a hold-up involving the private lives of most of town's citizens. Richard Egan. Victor Mature and Stephen McNally,'

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: - "Deep In My Heart A life of Sigmund Bomberr with many well-known MG.M. stars making brief appearances. Jose Ferrer and Merle Oberon, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Black Horse Caron". A western.

Joel McCres and Mari Blanchard.

LEE: "The Law vs. Billy the Kid". A western" jusiifying

ibe trigger-happy Billy. Scott Brady and Betts St. John. KING'S, PRINCESS and LEE: "Underwater". A search for "buried treasure. Jane Russell, Richard Era and Gilbert

Roland.

YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Ost of the Clouds", Romance on a civil airliner.

NEW

Beatty and David Knight.

Anthony Steel, Robert

A

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "East of Eden". Repression, passion and the remills of both. Julle Harris, James Den and Raymond Massey ROXY and BROADWAT: "The Outlaw's Daughter".

with the eldest Dalton's daughter trying to western, prove she's as tough is the rest of the cang.. Bill WII- Tams and Kelly Bran

ABOUT

here.

HOLLYWOOD

And when a good It's likely that during her part, like the one in Mister stay in London, she'll discuss

the Roberts' comes along, per possibility of Alming

Story of Ester Costello'.

Ro- and tie veteran gives a portrayal Michael Ruddy Come out and ride. We've got gently she said she had buzzed some good colts, Western saddle, down the screenplay. So had Batte Davis and Barbara but they're lively."

Stanwyck. Odds in Hollywood are However Mr Sammy Fuller, For Cover" an unusual Western, children at MGM Studios during against Edmund Purdom marry who spent

months in the Cagney plays a six-shooting the last days of "Love Me or hombre of the classic vintage Leave Me!"

ing Linda Christian, when he Lendon recently re-writing-

scenario, safi a few days ago at who tries to reform John Derek.

divorced from Tita Phillips, his The Fox Studios that Mies now wanted to do How did he account for this wife, living alone at the seaside Crawford

Fuller crop of Bims after a period of with their two daughters The "Estar Castello." tranquility on his farms, in the

("Unobtainable in cigar, with Doris Day is the fabulous yard, New England? The good has agreed to pay Linda about London) just as well. It lock-

"Love Me or Leave Me," Valley and Maths renton? Simple. Tyrose Power emphasized this with his ninj singer, Buth Elting Cagney and his simple life, my boy £18,000 yearly for 11 years in like a lethal weapon. ADDED ATTRACTIONI CINEMASCOPE Short Subject plays her husband, the Gimp Cagney said softly, smiling, dimony and support, provided AC

A Comeback

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CINEMASCOPE

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VICTOR MATURE

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THREE STOOGES COMEDY AND, CARTOONS PROGRAMMER Presented by Columl

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10 CH. BROADWAY: To-morrow 5

int Saturday': 12.00 Noon.

Extra Performa

$1.50

Lunch With Cagney

Years

when

a combination roter-hoodlum or His soft voice always suprises she doesn't re-marry, the roaring 20s, which smacke me. I made many movies

Do you recall A song, "The of the old fough, hard-hitting I was with Warner Brotherd Travelling to Britain-Joan Object of my Affecticos"? The characters he portrayed twenty some good, some izvirerent. Crawford "But I'll be away man who made this ditty Pinky Lee, has staged contrast, he's George M. Cohan and you become interested in weeks as I can't bear to leame

ago. Then an - warm when you wait for a good sedpt from home only”, about four rackable.” comeback · ngnindo ****The Seven Little

important matter like breeding the children for longer that obscurity. He has become a TV Foys and one of the high points the Highland cattle and building that, the woman who's been 2-star - hasr frenchdow of this delightful thm is not a new bar And there's always star for 28 years told me when Juvente todowing

from

shoe mumber with Leslie Cowes the family. He indicated his she finished her Columbia am success in the middle or Pinic Hope Bob to you all

childre

*****"The Queen Beer in which she super swimming My wife and I enjoy life in runs the gamut of movie kled with "ewaying

country, either in the Best

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