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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1955.

FILMS

I

With the tle "Mambo" to tempt the dance-conscious population of Hongkong to the King's, Princess and Empire this week-end should think that these three cinemas will probably do Given very good business. two or three showers of rain on Sunday morning, their triumph will be complete.

Its star is that most attractive Italian actress, Silvana Mangano -so different from her two rivals for the Italian screeni Crowth Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren

were

Mangano's voluptuous charms exploited for the Arst time in "Bitte Rice and her role in "Mambo" bears come resemblance to it. Once

again she is a girl of the people working in a scul-destroying job. She has a férce to dance, but lacks the

as

Gassman coks though he might to the answer. but one glance at him will con

the audience that he's up vince to no good He has plans for Silva, sure enough, but they are for her to

member marry a of the nobility suffering from baemophilia and after he has conveniently died of his illness, Gassman will live on the for- thing left to the widow

Michael Rennie is the

таза

sick

man and Shelley Winters is east, rather unusually, as the mana- ger of the Katherine Dunham troupe of dancers who entertain at a reception given by Count

the

I haven't been able to see this picture yet, but if it's any help in choosing an evening's enter tainment I wouldn't miss for anything!

it

Current & Comas

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

EMPIRE, KING'S. and PRINCESS: "Mambo". A slum girl from Venice finds. ültimate happiness in a dancing career after two bad cases, of heartbreak. Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters and Michael Rennie. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Rogue Cop". Gangsters bribe a poHerman, but get more than they bargained for. Robert Taylor, George Rafi and Janet Leigh. LEE: The Young Caruso" The early life and struggles of the · fafiers teker. Gina Lollobrigida and Ermiana Randi, with the voice of Mario del Monico. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: The Man Who Loved Redheads". An inconstant husband who always · falla for the same type of woman, John Justin, Moira Shearer and Roland Culýés.

1

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "The Sea Chase". The fabulous voyard of a German ship on the run for 20,000 miles. John Wayne and Lana Turner. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Buffalo Bill”. A western with

Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show as the climax. McCrea, Maureen, O'Hara and Linda Darnell,

COMING

Joel

EMPIRE. KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Living Desert”. Walt Disney's carnival of animals and birds filmed in colour against beautiful' scenery.

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Beau Brummel The rise and fall of the Prince of Wales' favourite, Stewart Granger, Peter Ustinov and Elizabeth Taylor.

LEE

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Fort Vengeance”. A

western, James Craig. Keith Larsen and Riia Moreno. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Yolanda A swashbuckler. "

Marc Lawrence and May Britt.

"Wyoming Renegade”. A western.. Phil Carey and Martha Hyer.

Soldier of Fortune". Present day piracy filmed in Hongkong. Clark Gable and Suma Hayward.

George Raft is surprisingly Although any of the old

I've never good:

In plot is hardly new, "Rogue

In this case, John Justin, a young Foreign Office official with

brilliant future predicted for him discovers that his type is of the red- headed, Ively, Moira Shearer variety

In spite of the éminently "sultable"

marriage be 200- tracts with a lady we don't see until she has grown old and who, needless to say is not the Shearer type, he decides to: make the best of two worlds and have the comfort of a home, a hostess and a

Sún, while taking his more frivolous pleasures in a little fat with whose owner he has an arrange- ment

The friend is Roland Culver and his asperity and earthy wisdom quite put to shame

John ·Justin's. sentimental vapouringa. I found Justin rather a foppish character altogether. Far from being the gay philanderer with a twinkle in his eye and a penchant for pretty women, he seemed to be a hypocritical, weak character, too easily taken in by a pretty face and Infinted by self delusion into thinking he was no end of a dashing fellow.

Moira Shearer brings a competently different approach to each of the many redheads she portrays in the film, but she

girl- is too pleasant and next-doorish to produce much more than a small fame on the

screen.

The biggest joke of all Is given, at the end of the film, to Gladys Cooper, but I won't anticipate it for you..

much of him as an actor.

thought of cliches turn up, and even the Gina Lollobrigida

Man Who Tamed thugs put together.

The Wild West

AND Caruso

You should take a look at "The Young Caruso" if you enjoy hearing the voice of the well-known singer Mario

John Wayne As del Monaco and like resting

his "good" roles he was treacly Cop", after getting off to a slow and in his "bad" he wis a start, moves along at a pace caricature of all the comic strip which holds the interest, and

the acting of Robert Taylor.. In Rogue Cop" however, he Anne Francis and George Raft has developed a cold, ruthless raise it above the run-of-the look that sums to come from mill cops and robbers film. within rather than from facial- expression. When he rounds on "Buffalo Bill tells of the his girl friend and tells her. exploits of the famous exactly what he's going to do to William Cody, friend of the her because she no longer pleases Red Indians and prime him every threat comes over mover in the effort to bring us a piece of cruelty he is quite capable of inflicting. The old Raft would have 'glared, ground peace to the Wild West.

Joel McCrea is Cody, Maureen his teeth and gritted the words O'Hara his wife, and Linda cut, but they would have had Damell the

Indian maiden more conviction than a statement. who's usually around on these that he was going to shoot the Occasions to gaze soulfully from audience.. her wigwam at the white man who regretfully rejects her.

Those two stalwart character actors Thomas Mitchell and Edgar Buchanan are on hand to liven up the proceedings whenever they terid to lag.

Herr Kapitan

а

your eyes On the almost flawless features of lovely Gina Lollobrigida.

It is difficult for me to com-

"The Sea Chase" was most enthralling book ment on the standard of acting, describing the long 20,000 as al the cast is Italian, and while everyone with the ex- mile Ehrlich and his crew from pears to fling himself into the

voyage of Captain ception of the serene Gina ap-1

story with an exuberance and Janet Leigh, I'm sad to say, is Sydney to the North Sea,

expressiveness that gives an air shown up badly by the second feminine lead, Anne Francis. In the captain that in spite of the my lack of Italian left me on So gallant and courageous was of liveliness to the production, contrast with the latter her words sound empty, her figure gedly the whole way by che cr

fact that he was pursued dog. the outside looking in, as it and face appear sythetic, and in other ship of the Royal Navy Certainly there is dubbing, but of her shady past, her (the events took place during I think the less said about it Retribution For instant note the '39-45 war and Ehrlich was the better.

German) ove's entire sympathy The picture traces the life of was with him to the very end. the famous tenor from his very it's true that her dialogue A Bm has been made of the early boyhood in Naples to his doesn't give her much of a book, with John Wayne

as triumph when, after many false chance (a sample: "he rang for Captain Ehrlich

David starts and disappointments, he is elevator passend Farrar as his pursuer. It's some acclaimed as the greatest tenor paust "that's when it”

time since I

Terd it, birt

The Rogue

"The first

view

'a good girl, sounds sanctimonious

cof impertinent.

the

thing that

not a middle-aged man hav-

ing the illusion of youth

make-up department, by the

preserved for him by the

Moment

pause

Anne Francis is what every-

and

studlo tailor or by dexterous cre even the crooks-refer to the Queen's and Alhambra manipulation of the camera. with disdain as a "lush". That,

er were.

one one is co-

He may have lost some of the for arryoge not familiar with A Weakness For better than Ermanno Randi's

attractive glow of sheer youth whodunnits and the more lurid fulness, but it has been replaced crime stories, is a person who by the mature good looks and tipples away happily all his or air of authority that have

he waking hours and maintaics much wider and long-lasting a precarious balance midway be appeal

tween complete intoxication and His is not a sympathetic part absolute sobriety. in "Rogue Cop". For most of

Redheads

to

struck me about "Rogue happened" but she delivers her vaguely remember a girl having of his time.

It could not be called a lavish Cop" was that of all the trite lines as though they were Deen on the boa: somewhere-a roduction and although there

girl however, nothing like matinee idols of about 15 pearls of wit, thereby making

as is realism and imagination in Juscious as Lana Turner, years

ago, Robert Taylor them even more banal

With Miss Turner in the part, the photography, it is has worn the best. Here is

A Dramatic naturally the emphasis is placed picture in which

less on the chase itself than on sciously aware of the lack of her relations with John Wayne colour. Filmed as it was mainly and the rest of the crew, which in Naples, it is frustrating to includes Lyle Bettger bad as aspect, after all that has been usual and Tab Hunter,

written about it, that less than "The Sea Chase" is playing at justice has been done to this

lovely city.

I like Caruso as a little boy

portrayal of the achit singer. Even with the dubbing it was possible

feel the boy's passionate love of music and his equally decp love for his The trouble with "The mother devotion so profound Man Who Loved Redheads" that he would not sing for many

years after her death. the picture he is one of these cut of the guttes by George Raft, is that, for the purposes of Caruso ded of pleurisy in despicable creatures who play

at his beck and entertainment he loved too 1921, but happily the Alm does on both sides of the law. No call like a performing animal many.

not follow him that far, being fate is painful enough for a man and is in constant fear of his

content to leave him at his who abuse, his position as a ring of her and tossing her to Terence Rattigan might have, móment of triszaph. His ode polloman to feather His own his friends, it would take a gui been extremely witty, scripting Love, played by Lollobrigida, nest and in Spite ora change of

but. too of much stronger character than for three

many had been forced by her father heart "brought about by his brother's murder, a just retribus this poor wait to put up with variations on the same theme to marry someone else, but his tion overtakes him in the end.

this treatment without some sat have exhausted the ideas of compensation is in the acclaim

even this clever playwright. of an outlet.

of music-lovers all over the Racketeers and killers are Without sacrificing femininity. The picture is based on the world, Robert Taylor's constant com- in arry way

Bhach

without play "Who Is Sylvia?” which in pantous and one quarel I have

repulsive, becoming

Anne spite of the title of the flim is with his characterisation is that Francis paints a very moving in reality an essay on constancy. Le is not hard enoligh.

Continual

picture of the hopelessnes of Not the constancy that moves association with such a girl's situation,

one man and été woman these tough hoodlums (and

· The girl has been picked up

kept

to

MAJESTIC

they are tough-no punches are tells Taylor, that the expected for the whole of their lives, The simplicity with which she stick together without deviation pulled in depicting them) would have had a brutalising effect on has happened and that Raft has but the constancy of a man to him, even had the time spent taped her over to his gang is the type that, with minor of the most dramatic alterations;- will always" attract

in

their

their Ube company been of

It is hardly logical then, that

choosing and not voluntarily y his moments of the picture."

he should give up the easy money without which he can- not live, make enemies of the gangsters whose methods he knows only too well and give himet up to the police all because his former friends have murdered his brother,

This brother, whore refusal. to take the pay of the syndicate and dishonour his police badge, is played by Steve Forrest. : He makes the young man quite a likable person, but hardly a worthy

for several aubject magazine articles I've seen rew cently, which hall him as a new

to "here is not esouek törne personality and even

after having raten him in at least four Alms, I have dif fidully gin pa recognising.

him

Coming Great Attraction!

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