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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1956.

FILMS

Devotees of Tarzan would

be furious indeed if their hero behaved in anything but the prescribed Tarzar. fashion, and the mixture is as before in the current "Hidden Jungle" picture, even though the United Nations is brought in and the heroine turned into a nurse instead, of the usual jungle princess.

As usual though, she is saved from a savage African tribe who are naturally incensed at what scerns to be an Invasion of their privacy by the United Nations. medical team, but which is in fact a plot by a white hunter to stampede game from the tribal grounds back to his side of the fence.

For lovers of statistics, the picture was made this year, 13 the 38th Tarzan, Alın and repre- sents Gordon Scott's 11th trek through the African under- growth in the title role

The Blood Flows

-In Technicolour

In **The Man From Laramie" James Stewart has gone back to that gangling, easy-going style of acting that suits him so well. Unlike Kirk Douglas in the other recent western of note "Man Without a Star" he has a definite purpose in life, to discover. the murderer of his brother.

It's not as simple as it sounds however. His quarry isn't man, who has shot his brother in

the back, or even killed him in

what the code of the west calls a fair fight. In fact, the actual man who perpetral led the deed, is a Ret Indian in whom Stewart isn't even interested. The true murderer, he feels.

who a the man (or woman) hiding behind the identity of an

HOW DID YOU

FEEL?

In spite of several com- plaints from perspiring patrons of the 9.30 p.m. cinema shows, a check has produced the information that the majority of first run cinemas on Hongkong

side at least do not turn off their air-conditioning plants until almost the end of the last house. On a really sticky night they tell me that it is kept on until the Fist warm embrace has faded out

Perhaps the increased temperature was caused by a rise in blood pressure?

honest citizen, while selling guns to the marauding red men, Now you'll probably, lose in- terest here and accuse me of praising a picture that has as its background a situation as old as westerns the seivės. But un 13s you have a rooted anti- pathy to cowboys and redskins of any scrt, this aim is che that has plenty to recommend it. There is one very brutal scene

Current & Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

EMPIRE: It's a Pleasure”, Something to remind you of the Queen of the Ice Rink. Sonji Hente and Michael O'Shea.

KING'S and PRINCESS: Six Bridges to Cross". A good- looking youngster's progress from juvenile delinquency to big-scale crime. Tony Curtis, George Nader and Julie Adams.

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "A Tale of Two Cities"". A re-issue of the Charles Dickens story, Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan and Basil Rathbone.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: “Shield for Murder". An- other crooked cop hiding behind his badge. Edmond O'Brien, John Agar and Marta English.

LEE: "Tarzan's Hidden Jungle". Jungle Jinks In the old familiar manner. Gordon Scott, Vera Miles and Peter van Eyck. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "The Man from Laramie". A western lifted out of the rut by the performances of its

Donald three principals. James Stewart,

Crisp and Douglas Kennedy.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "That Lady". One of the stories about, Philip II of Spain that is making a name for Paul Scofield. Olivia de Havilland, Gilbert Roland and Paul Scofield.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Rogue Cop". Gangsters bribe a policeman but get more than they bargained for. Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh and George Raft, KING'S and PRINCESS: Wife For One-

Lollobrigida.

Night". Gina

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Man Who Loved Redheads". The story of a man searching for his ideal.. John Justin, Moira Shearer and Roland Calver. LEE: "Les Ports de la Nuit" ".""The well-known singer, Yves

Montand in a serious drama. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: The Sea Chase. An adven-

ture story: John Wayne and Lana Turner. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Soldier of Fortune". The smug-

gling film made here in Hongkong. Clark Gable.

"Beau Brummel". The commoner who swayed a prince. Stewart - Granger. Peter Ustinov and Elizabeth Taylor

An unhappy interview between Paul Scofield as Philip II of Spain and Olivia de Havilland as the Princess Eboli in “That Lady".

which I complain he sadistically the law and instinct, which ever shocks point blank at the hand you prefer being so fine, cach anti- of James Stewart who is being successive step on the held down by some of Nicol's social side makes the way back As the picture is in harder. I'm surprised to" and gang. technicolour, the gore flows then that this picture has so spectacularly and I must confess easily escaped the censors' scis to having felt heartily sick at sors, the sight,

This is a fairly minor point, however, and does not detract from the entertainment value of this picture. ·

After the fuss created by "The Wild One" b. England I can't foresee it being cordially received by the censors over there.

Like "Cell 2243" its there is

A New Role For based on fact that fact being

Tony Curtis

the $2 million robbery of an armoured car service unit in Beaton some time ago, which was linked with many other crimes attributed to the suspect, but which the authorities had rever Tony Curtis is rather a been able to pin on to him.. which in my opinion should dangerous young man to The reason for this was sup-

have been rut altogether, as it

serves no useful purpose, but

picture that an elderly rancher, Donald Crisp, is

cast as an habitual criminal. posed to have been his friendship

som years to the time when

the

for the most part, this picture From the roles he has had with a police cfficer dating back has action, character interest, so far, from his faithful the policeman had shot the young plus unexpected situations.

following and from his lik- juvenile delinquent, visited him We learn quite early in the able personality in general in hospital, following

the leading it is difficult to imagine him incident and had struck up a man in the part of the country as the enemy of society, unique boad with him-part affection and friendship and to which James Stewart rides, But he is in "Six Bridges to part service for service on both as a stranger. Though accord Cross".

sides. ing to his own lights, he is a His counterpart in real life is

This is a gangster story.. pure fair-dealing man”TM he openly probably very like him-good and simple, but Joseph Pewzey favours his pampered useless locking, plausible, always mean has directed the Sidney Bach son to the chagrin of the ing to go straight but having got script imaginatively and

used adopted one who does all the into the habit of living high the same quality when choosing work.

after each successful coup, find. These two are respectively, ing it almost impossible 10

his cast. Alex Nicol and Douglas chinge to hard work and Kennedy, Nicol is a bully in returns. addition to his other dislikcable The razor's edge between features and in the incident of morality andi immorality-o

In spite of the ahotgun, Aline MacMahon, is almost the only friend. James Stewart has in "The

Man From Laramie.

King Philip Is

The Star

"That Lady" is chiefly to be recommended for the per- formance of a brilliant new- comer to the screen — Paul Scofield.

It is a historical romance set In Spain in 1570 with the eccent on a secret love affair between Olivia

Havilland de

as.the widowed Princesa of Eboli, and ran upstart Secretary of State,

played by Gilbert Roland

of

player.

That Paul Scoßeld, as Philip II Spain, acts them both of the screen is not surprising, or even departure for a featured

chow The big names in chow burls nes are quite often more re markable for their publicity cxploits screen and the

fortunate accident of being

sister, Jean Fontaine, it's true that Olivia de Havilland hasn't courted the limelight overmuch and it's

true that she has giver some memorable perfor mances, such as that in "The Snake Pit," but usually sha brings to her

roles "a est of mannerisms so typically de Havillandish that we do not see but chameter herself,

Olivia de Havilland

the

merely playing her.

The same is true of Gilbert Roland to my even greater de- gree, although I feel that his gift for playing light comedy

roles hasn't be sufficiently exploited. Perhaps if he'd been. allowed a treerrein in this direction, he wouldn't appear to be laughing at himself quite as much as he suggests "in "That Indy."

Although, the fashions of the undoubtedly suit the lady herself and Scofeld is so com manding that' one doesn't even notice what he's wearing. Gilbert Roland seems to have strayed from a masquerade ball

in

spite of the fact that he

is of Spanish descent.

One of France's greatest ac- tresses-Francoise Resay-plays. the part of confidante" to the lady in her usual sweeping fashion, and there's a pleasantly suavo performance from Dennis Price as the political rival of Gilbert Roland.

The Cardinal "Confesses"

Oh, by the way........I've been reading excellent ré- ports of a British picture, starring Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins, called "The Prisoner".

Its theme is extremely topical Cerdinalis accused of treason in a police state because the authorities feel that both

the the general influence of Church and the personal in- fluence of the Cardinal himself. is dangerous to the regime.

By psychological means he Is degraded into making a "con- fession" of his sing and then,

with demoniacal eleverness, in- stead of being sentenced to death or committed to prison, he is sent back to his dis illusicred congregation, appear- ing before them as the per- sonification of a man whom religion has failed.

a

I don't suppose it will make fortune for any exhibitor here, but it would certainly be like a clean breeze if one of them had the courage to show it.

Drama with a

different

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SINANAMAN BUCHAEL

MANGANO RENNIE GASSMAN WINTERS

VITTORIO SHELLEY.

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