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KING'S PRINCESS

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At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

at 2.30, 8.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

TO-DAY ONLY

KAIČIUS VON FRELERZA

AN IVAN FOXWELL. PRODUCTION

JOHN MILLS ERIC PORTMAN

Colditz Story

Lugnenan ang tinig bng Kami yan and tran Lote

the shague with com thenglos Mama a Produced by han fremant

by mutan

JOHN

Distributed by BRITISH LION

TO-MORROW

peli msteruk kike ÖSčanisATION PRESENTE

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JOHN

DONALD

MILLS GREGSON · SINDEN

ABOVE US THE WAVES

HOMSON JUSTICE MEDWIN. KENNEY

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S at 11.30 a.m. M-C-M presents TECH, CARTOONS in CINEMASCOPE

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m.

• Warner Bros. present PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Reduced Admission:

=PRINCESS

$1.00, $1.50

TO MORROW At 12.00 Noon

Basant Pictures present

A Yory Outstanding & Superb Latest Indian Production

“DA K U"

Shashikala

Starring: Shammi Kapoor

Kuldip Kaur Anwar Hussain Sensational Hit Songs and Dance Numbers Regular Admission

COMING SOON AT KING'S & PRINCESS

UMPVERIÁL WYTEP MAJOR P

ROCK HUDSON BARBARA RUSH

JEFF MORROW

*** KATHLIFE NYEB· POLAT CONNE-OEMS ŠOLA SOFFALYT

APTAIN

LIGHTFOOT Joshnicolor

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD

CAUSEWAY BAY, TEL7872)

SHOWING

KOWLOON,

TEL53500

TO-DAY

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

THE FUNNIEST FILM SINCE "DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE"'!

The ARTHUR BANK ORGANISATION

presents

Jack BUCHAHAN

Janette SCOTT

Jean CARBON Brenda DE BAHZIE

JAS LONG AS THEY'RE HAPPY

Сайт совий

alip thissing

Susan STEPHEN Jerry WAYNE Diana DORS

cramplay by Alan Halsilia Directed. Las Thempaan Froduced by Raymond in a

Added Attractions

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Important Soccer Matches of the Year NEW YORK: WOLVES vs. DYNAMO GREAT WORLD: WOLVES vs, SPARTAK British-Gaumont News Filmed in Moscow

SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M, NEW YORK: UNIVERSAL TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS GREAT WORLD: M-G-M TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

ROX Y & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY: ̧· 2.30—5.307.30 & 9.30 P.M.

CINEMASCOPE

BRINGS YOU THE STORY TOKYO COULDN'T HIDE="

WASHINGTON COULDN'T HOLD BACK! ..

20th Century Én premis

house

Of

bamboo

COLÓR by DELUXE

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CINEMASCOPE

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ROBERT RYAN-HDBERT,STACK -

SIRALEY YAMAGUCHI

CAMERON

MITCHELL

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1955.

FILMS

The Lee Theatre returns to the occidental fold next week after a month and half of oriental pictures and singe productions. The pie- ture to be shown on Monday lus a racing background and should have a strong pull for the many rucegoers of this colony.

To!-

"The Rainbow Jacket" Jows the fortunes of a young boy jockey whose first break comes when, making his custo

Lingfield mary entrance Into Racecourse through 11 louse bourd in the fence, he meets Sam, a "warned off" jockey. The boy's enthusiasm knowledge of the sport cu lim- press the man that he agrees to

train hlm.

and

There are many difficulties beenuse of Sam's bad reputation and is ironical thut, only by keeping secret the name of his Brainer can the boy win the re-

spect his brilliance communes.

There are

two excellent char- acter actors in the east- -Robert Marley and Wilfrid Hyde White

and while Fella Edmonds, the boy jockey, is & newcomer to | full-length features, his pre

vious experience in document- aty ims and on the radio have given him a sound acting train- ing.

The screenplay is by T.E.B. Clarke who has been respon- sible for some of the best wril- ing in British pictures.

The Sordid Side

Of Boxing

Current & Cont

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

EMPIRE: "Hźhway Dragnet". Metodrama, Richard Conte,

Joan Bennels und Wanda Hendrix, HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Many Rivers to Cross". A comedy western in which even the proud heroine is made to take a fall. Eleanor Parkør and Robert Taylor. KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Colditz Story".

A Pow cscape plan and the men who made it work.. Erlo Port. man and John Mills. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD:. "As Long As They're Happy" A British comedy with music, Jack Buchanan, Diana Dors and Brenda de. Banzle.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Five Against the House". A trip to Reng with robbery as the motive, Guy Madison, Kim Novak and Brian Kelth

ROXY and BROADWAY: "House of Bambeo". American gangsters in present-day Tokyo.. Robert Ryan, Robert Stack and Shirley Yamaguchi.

HOOVER and LIBERTY:

COMING

and murders it becomes obvious have been their work.

In order to appear on their level he takes on a "kimono," which one gathers is the slang term for a Japanese girl who is willing to associate with foreigners. And in this conne tion I wasn't too happy about the casual and often offensive attitude used as a matter course towards these girls. may be true to life, and, typical of the outlook of many foreign men in Japan, but it's hardly taelful or saltable

flm in a

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

30, 5.15, 1.20 2 * Tan 116

SHOWING TO-DAY

A TIDAL WAVE

OF TERROR ENSOLES THE SCREEN!

Marie

Kenneth TOBEY

Faith DOMERGUE

of

Donald CURTIS

IT

• TO-MORROW

tich has world-wide distribu-

Robert Ryan's softly spoken. words of authority are efficient-IT

hid- ly menacing and suggest a

much ten strcuit of cruelty more deadly than the blustery bullying of Cameron Mitchell.

The ending, with the arch criminal trapped on the bts Pleasure

wag

wheel of Garden The Cin- Leslie Caron,

"The Glass Slipper". derella story with a psychological ́iwlat. Michael Wilding and Keenan Wynn. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Above Us the Waves". The 800- cessful submarine attack on the Tirpitz. John Mills, John Gregson and Donald Sladen.

"Captain Lightfoot". Bandits and brigands in ouldo Irelande. Rock Hudson.

LEE: "The Rainbow Jacket". There's a horse-racing back- ground to "this somewhat sentimental story. Robert Morley, Edward Underdown and Folla Edmonds,

"The Square Ring". Too much talk and not enough setion in this boxing ring. Robert Bealty, Maxwell Rocd and Jack Warner.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Human Jungle”.

Crime detection. Gary Merrill,

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "It Came From Beneath the Sea", Another of those "creatures" with a taste for human companionship. Faith Domergue and Kenneth Tobey.

and being falsely hearty in the dressing room.

reflected in his face, and the authority in his voice as he puts his decisions into effect is quiet, assured and beyond any questioning.

It seemed

little out of

Japniscent of

"The Third Man" and quite Improbable. For u elever ruth- less planner who had bullt up an organisation on split-second timing and who always had a second plan ready in any emergency, to panic before Ho was properly cornered and to flee to an exposed roof instead of downward, seemed to me to be a sad anti-climax.

One other point raised itself in my mind after seeing "House of Bamboo"; ls all Tokyo given over to the pursuit and exploi- tation of the craving amusement?

Musical-Made In England

for

There are only two women in the picture, if Dora Bryan's

British musicals are usual- very brief appearance is dia There is 2 gleam of

counted. The rather colourless

ly rather drab affairs with humour here, and there in wife who does little except look character for him to calm the second-rate songs, an in- "The Square Ring" but for pathetic, and reiterate

fears of one of his men by sipid cast, poor costumes and the most part it progresses seam that she will only come admitting that he himself was juvenile humour. Why this back If Beatty gives up boxing, seared, but even this mistake should be so is difficult to tediously backwards and and Key Kendall, who wears an forwards between the box- expression of perpetual boredom took in his stride.

on the script-writer's part ho

say, but unpalatable though # self-satisfied

pro- ing ring and the dressing combined with

The camaraderie existing it may be, American at her funcled alt- room, picking up a tired smirk

between those involved in the ductions have held undis- joke in one and stretching conquering attraction.

Kay Kendall without a doubt expedition is far more convinc- puted sway in the musical a lean one in the other until has a

ing than the einbarrassing field for far too long. beautiful face, but her the death of

limited over-heartiness too frequent in of the acting ability is very

to It's refreshing both British and American wur sumeli.mea she can boxers occurs as a welcome and

the dialogue.

is musical, made in England that Irritating with her flas, and excuse to end it all.

Try not has attempted to remedy this eyebrow witch always to the point.

state of affairs. The director and punctuating every remark and to miss this one.

producer haven't tried to com- the Ink of warmth in her, very

pete with the silelt products of infrequent smiles.

wood, but have set out to a happy, intimate te

with show

sparkle, and tn "As, Long As They're Happy"

one

The idea behind it was good, but the cast seemed dispirited and the direction weak.

extremely NCTVCUS

درا

Jack Warner as a trainer is Chicago Moves

The main character is Robert Beatty as a boxer trying to make likable

laughs.

stodgy and Bill

a come-back. The fight that is Owen work 100 hard for going to re-make his name

If there is merlt in this doesn't come until the end of picture It lies in the exposure the picture, however, and any of the

boxing serdid side of interest connected with it ebbs and the wad truth that in

the away with each succeeding con- professional ring the only people! versation about it,

who get anything out of it Beatty only Aghts once, and are the managers and gamblers for the rest of the time mean- who would never set foot in- ders about, behaving like a side the ropes. spoiled boy when his stranged wife refuses to return to him,

MAJESTIC

SHOWING TO-DAY

A.2.30, 6.20, 7.30 & 0.30 p.m. On Our Now Stereo Screen

SOLDIER

To Tokyo

they have succeeded.

finkl

1

There are no colossal produc- tion numbers, buti Jean Carson's "The House of Bamboo" angular charm comes over well is a slickly produced modern in her songs and as a personality melodrama that moves along

Kiri she is

is quite a find. It's a

simple story of rapidly, and although I have Ameriena crooner coming into never been to Japan, ap- the somewhat eccentric home of

Brenda de Banzle, and

an

CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA.

MORNING SHOWS

ALHAMBRA

QUEEN'S 5 SHOWS CAME FROM BENEATH

THE SEA"

AT 11.30 A.M.

· At 11.30 am. Only Johnny Weissmullor in "KİLLER APE"

A Columbia Picture REDUCED PRICES!

WATCH FOR IT!

GARY

BURT

COOPER LANCASTER VERA CRUZ

5:20

SUPERSCOPE

TECHNICOLOR

ARCHI LANKASTEN PRODUCTION - BELLASEN MORE WATER AUTISTS.

EMPIRE

NOW SHOWING

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

CONTE-BENNETT HENDRIX

HOLD

THAI

STRAY

KILLER!

HIGHWAY DRAGNET

EVERY BREATHTAKING MOMENT A RAW, RUGGED ADVENTURE IN STARK,

GRIPPING SUSPENSE!

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.00 A.M.

Errol

Patrice

Only Two Days pears to have made clever Jack Buchanan, and using ROCKY MOUNTAIN" FLYNN WYMORE

To See It!

11:30

of authentic Tokyo futters in the hearts of the three landmarks and backgrounds, daughters two married and one Impressionable teen ager- ring of and even mother herself.

It

concerns

"Above Us the Waves" by Robert Ryan, who have in-

an

4 criminala autocratically ruled There's a very thinly disguised like most British films, will Eluated themselves into the similarity between the singer only be shown for two days, flourishing radicets of the city and the original crying crooner, so anyone wishing to see a by the civil

and an immune from capture Johnnie Ray-except that Mr Japanese police Ray hasn't yet admitted that he effecta combination of netion and and`

his extraordinary effe the American Military KGLI

with the help of an onion. character study should keep alike.

There's enough humour The best performance comes either tomorrow or Monday

Robert Strick, from

Wayne's playing of as an

Jerry American Security sergeant singer's part to make him like- It is a

very fine picture, whose job it is to get himself able and Jack Buchanan proves made with a minimum of mock accepted by the gang and obtain that he can compete successfully with any of the heroics and by a team of fine enough ovidence to convict for attention

many holdups younger generation.

CLARK SUSAN GABLE HAYWARD free.

CINEMASCOPE

COLOR by DE LUKE

In the wander are freefomiong LOLIJO

COF FORTUNE 20

Morning Show To-morrow At 12.30-At Reduced Prices "CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FESTIVAL"

actors,

We have become accustomed

to war films containing two

stars (not always actors)

one

or two typed characters plenty of extras.

and

Every member of the cast of "Above Us. the Waves" is an

has been

Important cog in the nghting wherl

against

the German battleship, Tirpitz, and not one put in merely as a body to swell the background.

But John Mills stands out, con Above the

The rest, thought behind his decisions is

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TO-NIGHT AT 8.00 P.M. GREAT WALL DRAMA GROUP presents

"THUNDERSTORM"

Admissions: $8.90, $6., $4.70, $3., & $1,70

★ NEXT CHANGE ★

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KAY WALSH - BILL OWEN- EDWARD UNDERDOWN, and ROBERT MORLEY.

The RAINBOW JACKET

ALSO STARKING FELLA EUNGUNTZA

A A ARTIRIR KAIM ORGANIZATEN TAIMENTATION TECHNICOLOR

ORIENTAL.

AIR KONEET ULJNU LI

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

9.30 P.M.

ON OUR GIANT WIDE SCREEN!

Walt Disney's

U1

tho

Reduced Prices At 40 Ct., 70 Ch. & $1.00 Only

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A SUPERNATURAL GERMAN PICTURE WITH ENGLISH TITLES

Starring Ballina MOISSI

Bobby

TODD

Jeana

MARIA GORVIN

SCRIRTER..

DIRECTOR.

ACTOR COMPOSER.

SAU BY.

"Helmut

HOOVER LIBERTY

CAUSEWAY BAY TEL:72571

KOWLOONS TELL S0333

NOW PLAYING-

M-G«Mi's Excillag

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

ntucky Adventure la COLOR and L

CINEMASCOPE

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS

ROBERT TAYLOR ELEANOR PARKER

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SHOWS TOMORROW

Extra Performance At 1200 Noon

Sunday Morning Show

1. 12.30 p.m. "KING RICHARD 6.

CRUSADERS"! In CinemaScope

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 1210:P.M. "THE STRANGER WORE

GUN!!

"12.30 p.m.

Varner Bros. F