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KING'S PRINCESS

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At 2.30, 5.15.7.209.30 p.m. at 2,30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

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FILMS-CURRENT AND

The recent Scott Brady picture"The Law

SHOWING TO-DAY Billy the Kid" will probably

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KIRK DOUGLAS JEANNE CRAIN

CLAIRE TREVOR

MAN WITHOUT A STAR Contra WILLIAM CAMPBELL ..... RICHARD BOONE- MARA CORBAY - MYRNA HANSEN

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EXTRA MORNING SHOW

TO-MORROW

KING'S at 11,30 a.m. John Wayne in

"FLYING LEATHERNECKS"

in color by Technicolor.

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m.

Paramount presenta

A PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

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Theatre

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

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DOMINIQUE WILMS EDDU CONSTANTINE

LA MÕNE VERT DE GRIS.

Poison Ivy

WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.00 NOON

20th Century-Fox Presents

have reminded western fans that the infamous William Bonney is no longer a hiss- able character and that al- though his early part in the cattle wars of the 1870's was not altogether an exampl fo the young, his motives weren't

self- centred AS the cowboy novelists have made them.

BA

In a picture made some years ago, Robert Taylor played Billy in the grand manner and with the current fashion for reviving some of the better outdoor Alms, it's coming back to the. Hoover and Liberty screens.

Exploiting his 'English accent, Ian Hunter has been made into a law-abiding English rancher whose death at the hands of the Hickey gang (Hickey him- selt being played with his customary olliness by Gene Lockhart) is the spark that fires Taylor into returning to law- lessness after a period of un- usually good behaviour,

To Brian Donlevy falls the task of showing him that the law must be left to the man who wears the right badge.

Pierre Cheyney

En Francais

The thrills come thick and fast in "Poison Ivy", with Eddie Constantine playing Peter Cheyney's slap 'em and kiss lem hero in & fashion that should make his creator rest happily.

That favourite haunt of the sensation writers, Casablanca, is the locale for the opening of the picture, and naturally the action takes off with a bang-in

bar. A young man is involved

in a fight with what appears to be a stranger and during his resulting period of haziness babbles incoherently of gold.

His fights of fancy mean nothing to the police as any reader

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paper correspondent, they spell international crime involving almost every known crook in the business.

Before leaving "Poison Ivy", a word on Constantine himself: although he is a household word in France he was born in America and completely failed to make a name for himself there

In spite of persistent trying. the nearest he Co to Screen work was in a crowd scene in "Alexander's Ragtime

Band".

He next tried to hit the headlines as a singer, but there were many other bass voices going into the battle with bigger guns behind them, and this too" was a failure.

By JANE ROBERTS

A scene from "The Eternal Sea".

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

EMPIRE: "Siriporama". Just what the title suggesis, with some of the stripping being done hy leading burlesque specialist Lili St. Cyr

HQOVER and LIBERTY: "Billy the Kid". A western on..

a grand seale. Robert Taylor. Brian Donlevy and Tan

Hunter.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Man Without a Star". A western 131 which the hero rides into town, rights its wrongs and

rices on

Kirk Douglas, William Campbell and Jeanne

Crain Grain

LEE: "Poison Ivy". A Peter Cheyney thriller in French with English sub-les. Eddie Constantine and Dominique Wilms.

A

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: The Eternal Sea".

display of moral and physical courage frem a US Naval commander. Sterling Hayden. Alexis Smith and Dean Jarger.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Paris Follim". A light-hearted musical based on the revne. Raymond Hussieres and Robert Dhery."

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Camellia". "Greta Garbo's cele-

brated role played by Li Ll-Hwa.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Athena".

A back-to-nature family whose youngsters are named after Greek goddesses try to convert a crooner and a young business man to their moon-struck ways. Edmund Purdom, Jane Powell, Vic Damone and Debbie Reynolds.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Four Guns To The Border".

A

western in which the bad boys have a change of heart. Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan and Colleen Miller. LEE: "I'll be seeing you". A girl on temporary leave from prison and a nerve-shocked soldier helps to rehabilitate other. Ginger Rogers. Joseph Cotten and Shirley each Temple

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Union Pacific". A western dramatising the building of the railway linking

Bar- the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America. bara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Creature With The Atom

Brain".

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Daddy Long Legs". A re-make of the old Janet Gaynor picture with Leslie Caron taking her role and Fred Astaire that of Fredric March.

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are gradually transforming the wide open spaces into separate farms. He has no family, hopes, no ties, Loneliness is no problem to him, as in spite of his lack of ambillon, he is completely self-sufficient,

eyes

of

Not a very vital character on which to hang "a Alm. However, Kirk Douglas works hard оп It wasn't until he went to him and presents him to us on a France with his wife-a ballet plate as a sort of western Robin dancer with the de Basi! Hood, taking sides, against his company that he began to find nature, with Cassidy who wants his feet via parts in quite small to fence in his range, Even worse films. The final joke is on than Cassidy in the cy Hollywood: they are talking of Kirk Douglas, is Jeanne Crain making a film of his life-story! who wants to get rich quickly by grazing more cattle than the land can stand. that

in three years all the grass will have gone and she will leave for the East having made her fortune, ruining meņ of Cassidy's.type. In the mean- time.

Cowboy Under

A Microscope

05

'

"Nothing much is accomplished —there's a big fight between men of the rival ranches and although, it is Cassidy who is the victor, one feels that a woman as ruth- less as Jeanne Craia (an unusual

"Man Without A Star" is one of the new type west erms in which one man is brought into the open and role for her) will soon rally her peered at through a magni- forces and fight back. However: ut this point Douglas rides on fying glass which exag- out of the story and

and the film ends

gerates every movement and with the

gesture he makes.

somewhat

kitle tough of "Cell

Andre

In the old style and routine 2243" fame) being thrown westerns the plot always runs the arms of Cassidy's daughter true to pattern and although as Frankie Laine sings off screen

"The man without a star.' there may be a featured player, his capabilities are usually such that the glare of the limelight is tempered towards him and his acting imperfections par:ly masked behind western props, character actors and plenty of

horses..

Kirk Douglas, on

the other

hand, is obviously of the opinion

Film For Tired

Businessmen

With two Atrip tease

that he is new an experienced shows on in Hongkong at

enough actor to shout, whisper,

fight.

and make love with the same time, the. tired nothirig to distract the attention businessmen whose Text

perfcrmance.

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of the audience from his this is traditionally supposed to be will be able to have" a Ta cerain extent he is high old time. justified in this assumption. He

*Striporama” gives the TBM is an interesting personality, he dog command attention and he Lill St Cyr (who, has Walter Winchell's approval, according The question whether all the amount of to the publicity items on this energy he expends on proving doves do most of her work for picture), Rosita Royce, whose it in "Man Without A Star is her and Georgia Southern- Worthwhile, and

dancer from that southern state

can" act,

He's just a roving cowboy who looks, like the others, as Who is continually moving of though. She deserves. at the away from the wire fences that very least, a bed paldi

COMING

mirals with such familiarity that one's sense of propor... tion is sorely tried.

We've been used to films about the sca in which everyone from

to an able seaman

the st Heutenant has a problem, but we're not used to watching an admiral writhing under the microscope and although one cannot help caluting the strength of purpose of the man who in- Elm, I'm not sure spired the that I like to see a group of responsible, men being made to look silly because they have overlooked an old unrepealed regulation allowing a wounded officer to choose whether or not he will be retired.

Of course there is a great deal more so the picture than this-some excellent action

shots of aerial warfare from a carrier - interestingly photo- graphed semes from the "brain"

of the carrier whlie it's air-

craft are carrying out an at- tack many

miles away-and

some good acting from both Sterling Hayden (who I must confess I didn't think had it in him) and Dean Jagger.

But the force of character of Admiral Hoskins would have come -over with more power had his story been treated with less sentimentality.

We all know that every sensi- tive man with a family likes to be with them, knows and up- preciates their loneliness while he is away from them, and when faced with choice, would Father accept a job using less than his capabilities in order to be able to spend more time with them.

But, as the point of "The Eternal Sea" was to emphasise Admiral Hoskins' battle and victory over the prejudice against using a man who had fort a leg gallantly in action, too much stress was laid on his private life and the influence of his wife an unrewarding role taken by Alexis Smith.

Fernandel Faces

And The Follies

Don't be put off by the more sensational aspects of "Paris Follies". True, there is quite a lot of burlesque and suggestiveness, but the combined comedy efforts of Raymond Bussieres and Louis de Funes as a plumber and a chief of police respec-

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tively are so hilarious that if MGM COLOR CARTOONS

the other part offends you, you can afford to ignore it.

The long-suffering producer iz attempting to carry out a rehearsal of the "Fotes Meri- court" throughout the film. The plumber interrupts, his wife Carries on back-chat with the The continuity linking the acis artists on the stage, the principal concerns the right of this type dancer's replacement turns out of show to be considered by a to be a typist, a panther escapes, fictitious "Council for the Pre- the

servation of Culture" for cident of police gets

clusion as "Art of the Twentieth Century."

The Admiral's

Dilemma

3x-

mixed up 11 the show all of which diversions are treated with a mixture of the amused

indulgence by female direster (a mature char- mer slightly involved with the producer) and amused irritation by the producer himself.

Bussieres has the face of an amiable horse-a slightly more ascetic Fernandel with the same infinite variety of facial expres- sion, Make a note of his name, anything in which he appears is produce the un-

"The Eternal Sea" fairly bristles with brass. Hardly anyone is less than a captain and the director treats ad- expected.

bound to

NEW BRITISH STAR

Jean Carson, a new young English star who will soon be appearing in J. Arthur Rank's "As Long As

They're Happy

In CinemaScope with Perspecta Starcophonic Sound.

EMPIRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

FOR THE FIRST TIME ÎN COLON

The three most exotic stars

in ONE GREAT SHOW!

STRIPORAMA

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