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KING'S PRINCESS

*

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

MONSTER ESCAPES!' CITY IN TERROR!

ALL NEW

THRILLS!

TO-DAY

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JOHN AGAR LORI NELSON JOHN BROMFIELD A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

FPRINCESS

At 11:00 am.

EXTRA' MORNING SHOWS TO.MORROW

M-C-M Presents

"TOM & JERRY" TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At 12.10 p.m.

At Reduced Prices

Hemlata Pictures present

"SHIVRATRI"

A Super Indian Production Starting

NIRUPA ROY - TRILOK KAPOOR - MANHAR DESA! & NIRANJAN SHARMA

8 Song Hits

At Regular Prices

BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!

EMPIRE

FINAL TO-DAY

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

He left a trail of

conquest across

the West!

Allied Artists

SON Of Belle Starr

OF

KET LARSEN

TO-MORROW

PEGGIE CASTLE COLO

16 FATHOMS

DEEP

TO-MORROW.

SUNDAY MATINEE AT 11.00 A.M.

·JOAN CRAWFORD in

"JOHNNY GUITAR” Reduced Price: $1,00, 70 Ct. & 40 Cts.

RIENTAL

AIR CONDITIANCO

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30; 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1955.

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FILMS Current

For the first time in her

career Greer Garson has forsaken

the city back-

Coming

By Jane Roberts

grounds against which she The New Films At A Glance

has appeared so often and taken to the great out- doors.

Many drawing room actresses have done it before, but Miss Garson has held out against it so far. Now she is to be seen in a westem-"Strange Lady in

Town",

Why the title I don't know. There's nothing particularly odd about her wish to journey from Beston to Santa Fe in the ad- venturous days of the late 19th Kentury, especially as her brother is there, and later it transpires, her father too. However, as recollect having mentioned be- fore, there's no rhyme or reason in Hollywood's choice of fin tities.

Her romantic partner is Dann Andrews rather a cold Ash I've always thought however the reputation of Miss Garson must be preserved, and it would never do to team her with any-

one

as raffish-looking as, say, Tony Curtis!

Young Cameron Mitchell, her brother, unfortunately doesn't share the true-blue dependable qualities of his sister, the doc-

tor, and

and although the band ba- tween them is quite strong, she is righteously Indignant to dis cover that her attractive Living quartets have been. furnishe from moricy won at that game of the devil "Cards.".

Dana Andrews is also a doctor and naturally before the course of true love can run as am:othly as fiction tells us it does, there are several clashes between the

the two principal part in this

There's a

for the scared Hille bar- film maid see briefly in "East of Eden." In this she is the daughter of Dana Andrews and a rather ripa 16 years of age.

David Farrar-

A Falling Star?

When a well-known actor takes a small part in a film it either has to be a plum, or his name has to appear under the credit titles as a guest. star.

SHOWING

EMPIRE: "Son of Belle Starr"". · A western in which 'a s00

of a pioneer tries to prove he's a peaceful chap. Keith Larsen and Perrie Castle.

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Battle Circus". The American

* Medical Corps in action during the Korean war. Hom

phrey Bogart, June Allyson and Keenan Wran

KING'S

&

and PRINCESS. "Revenge of the Creature". The fill-man from the Black Lagoon is lured into the net by a tiri. John Arar, Lori Nelsen and John Bromfeld. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: “Chin Ping Mel"". A

Chinese picture in Mandarin.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: “Strange Lady. In Town". A

wistern in which Mrs Miniver still manages to stay a lady. Greer Garson, Daria Andrews, and Cameron Mitchell.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Escape to Buema”.

Adventure

in the jungle with Stanwyck back in riding breeches. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and David Farrar.

COMING

EMPIRE: 16 Fathoms Deep". Rival sponge fishers fighting above and below the water-line. Arthur Lake and Lón Chaney.

"It's a Pleasure". Queen of the Ice Rink. HOOVER and LIBERTY:

Something to remind you of the Sonja Henie and Michael O'Shea "Rogue Cop". Gangsters bribe a policeman, but get more than they bargained for. Robert Taylor, George Haft and Janet Leigh. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Six Bridges to Cross'." A good looking youngster's progress from juvenile delinquency big-scale crime, Tony Curtis. George Nader and Julie Adams.

LEE: ***The Young Caruso”.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMERA: › "The Man from Larimie”: A western James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy' and Donald Crisp.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "A Shield for Murder".

A thriller.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Yolanda”.

,

Mare Lawrence and May Briti

swashbuckler.

"That Lady", One of the stories about Philip II of Spain that is making a name for Paul Scofield. Olivia de Havillami. Gilbert Boland and Paul Scofield.

Lisa. Montell ส

If he takes a secondary role that carries little dialogue and even that of slight importance, it harms his reputation as star and causes the film-going public to assume he is on the down-grade.

who playsTM Barbara Stanwyck's winsome Burmese maid in "Escape to Burma”,

concerned, but with the excuse that competing in a man's world entitles her to apply her own standards instead of the ac ..cepted ones.

wounded, succeeds in reaching the water and diving deep „down" thereby leaving room for yet another sequel to "The Creature from the Black Lagoon".

The Week-end

Choice

June

In "Battle Circus" Allyson is a nice clean liv. ing little Army nurse who though she has had many passes made at her, as she tells Humphrey Bogart, has never made a slip.

Which, in language we can understand, means that though the wolves have howled around her, and have chien came, in quite clare, she has managed to hold them off with a спесту smile, turning them into friend- by little gs ashamed of their rough ways.

From which you'll gather that It's the Allyson mixture as before-naive nice, and un- shakable in her faith in the cred that there's one man for every one woman waiting some- where. She has a hard time con- vincing that grizzled oich hunter Bagact that romance with her caly be found withis the charm

wedding circle of a but her resistance, plus

cân

ring. calmness in an emergency, final- iv fel him into thinking that they're indispensable to each other

and the fade-a leaves them gezing into the mists of a utopia magnifcent in its blind-: news to reality.

This romantic approach is luckily not extended to the part ot the Alm. almost impossible

action

IT'S

Keenan

for

Wyan to put a foot wrong in pictures and It's he, rather than Humphrey Bogart who becomes the forceful character in all but the love scents...

Dr Bogart Is

A Tippler

In "Battle Circus" he's a one time circus hand whose experience in striking and assembling a tented camp in the minimum cf time

of paramount importance in the job the "Battle Circus" people nra engaged on. Theirs is the dangerous one of getting in, on foot, and by helicopter, as close they can to the actual fighting, and evacuating the

wounded,

And in "The Son of Belle

When each objective can starr"showing at the moment change hands as often as three at the Empire-we find the or four times in as many days notorious lady's son doing his 's a very, tricky proposition, it does the best to bring the gold robbers carrying

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to justice in order to prove to probability of being caught in the world and Peggie Castle the gunfire of one's own side. inherited from The paradox of having become mama is her bravado,

almost indifferent to danger Dona Drake is the other girl through constant contact with

in this picture, but if you've it is well conveyed by all the

Once this happens then the uphill climb back to popularity (not to be confused, of course, with genuine acting ability) i an almost impossible one.

The workers on her teak Let's take a second or two to lament then the fall of David State are feudally devoted to Farrar. "Escape

her, but there is a hint of the that all he's to Burma would certainly never win an den day trend in their re- award for the wit of its dialogue, fusal to cbey her orders to the ingenuity of its plot or the into the jungle to help track

ever seen Peggie Castle in the cast. down a marauding tiger they dramatic talent of its cast,

many supporting roles she's had Bogart plays the part of an That may not be entirely the think is a ghost-animal.

over the last two years or so, Army doctor whose addiction to cast's fault perhaps, with no A few sharp words from the it won't be Dona you' be the bottle seems to depend better material to hand tacy supposed renegade, Robert Ryan, watching.

largely on hearsay he takes a were misguidedly led to believe put a stop to this insubordina-

drink from Ume to time in the that any appearance before the tion, and in spite of all the

film, but not enough to make public was better than a long evidence piling up against him,

him the not entirely dependable we begin to suspect that he's

character hinted at by bis However the harm done to the, not suite the bad hat every ne

sympathetic commanding officer reputations of Barbara Stanwyck thinks him. Farrar is tracking

In spite of its somewhat and Robert Ryan in the leading him downy,

Hollywoodian approach to what roles is as nothing compared. Reginald Denny, as the British with the effect it must have on Commissioner, looks more of the Creature" is, as is so Korean war, this would be my The trailer to Revenge must have been a very serious side of the down-to-earth often the case, misleading. choice it 1 could only see one long time ago he made a name the past ever in those foolish The "creature" is represent film over the week-end. for himsel Nobody would comedies for which he was ed as being human and able even then have called him a renowned--bit as the whole juvenile lead, but with hoary old thing is deviously meant to be of Lori Nelson, whereas, in warriors like Clark Gable still modem melodrama, he's not out able to pull feminine

de of place. audiences, his age was im-

absence

David Farrar,

In "Black Narcissus”—quite.

material, and his performance good

In several later alms he showed promise and as he has

Looks better

than the scknowledged names of the British screen, such as John Mills and Michael Redgrave, it appeared that his future was

assured.

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A Stereotyped Melodrama

ecmfortable than I can ever re- member him baving appeared in

More Junior

Westerns

to

Beauty And

The Beast

appreciate the charms

actual fact he is only chas- ing the bait the zoologists have put down for him.

The unfortunate gill-man for whom I felt a great deal of pity, even knowing that he was Just an ordinary man inside a We seem to have struck rather tearsome make-up job a series of junior westerns in been trapped inside an recently, the theme of aquarium and is being poked and which has to do with the and, tris assistant John Agar prodded by a young professor

handicaps attendant on and Lori Nelson respectively, being the peaceful son or Lori, incidentally, doesn't "daughter of a pioneer of intent to get herself labelled as the old west whose pro a blare-stocking because of her Unfortunately, he has lived tracted existence depended role in tas picture her sc up to pradictions and hopes, is on being quick on the draw, low-worker are delivered with

tific pronouncements performance in Escape to The new "Destry which we'll about as much conviction as a Burma" is flat, conventional and be seeing here soon is a pale textotaller enthuse over the ofter downright hammy. There imitation of his fire eating health-giving properties of a new Bre many players who have father and although he brings brand of whiskey p never been more than that, but law and order to a western town The wreature of course breaks It is doubly disillusionding to named "Restful” it's " by discover that what one had being sick of tongue rather loose ent pads about Florida In hoped would be a svaring rocket than quick on the trigger the wake of his tormentors and bas turned out,

• to be, a lame In “Jesse James va

The creates a great deal of havoc Daltonga pleture that has before finally being shot, For the rest, 1's what you already passed through the When I saw the picture might expect.

hero is only too glad to discover thought the gill-man had been OW AT 12.30 Barbara Stanwyck is her that he's not required ja live up consigned to a watery trave fo

Wamer, Color | usual self-good at busiriens, un to the belligerent character of ever, but my Prem Boole tells ape, his supposed: father,

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URDAY

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

2001, 5,13, 7.20 & D Maal

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Strange Lady

in Town-

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GREER GARSON- DANA ANDREWS

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QUEEN'S "THE MOON IS BLUE"

William Holden-David Niven Maggie McNamara Released Thru United Artists

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Lucille Bali - John Agar

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ROXY & BROADWAY

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LOVE...OR A HIDING PLACE? WHICH DID HE WANT?

BARBARA STANWYCK ROBERT RYAN DAVID FARRAR

ESCAPE BURMA

TO

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SUPERSCOPE

JAMURVYN VIE » UISA MONTELL – ROBERT WARWICK • REGINALD DENNY

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CHUNG YEE DRAMA GROUP presents

Pah Jin's

All Star Cast

THE FAMILY”

■ Dialogue in Mand

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