1955-10-01 — Page 2

KING'S PRINCESS

MAIN. 50-17 20 à 9.30 P St.

SHOWING TO-DAY

TECHNICOLOR

CHIEF CRAZY HORSE

CINEMASCOPE

A U-I PICTURE

The Man who 'Smashed Custer!

VICTOR MATURE

SUZAN BALL JOHN LUND

KEITH LARSEN and introducing RAY DANTON

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S At 11.30 a.m.

PRINCESS At 11.00 a.m.

A Select Programme of

Warner Bros. Technicolor Cartoons At Reduced Prices: $1, $1.50

FPRINCESS=

SPECIAL MATINEE

TO-MORROW, 12 NOON

Hindustan Art Productions present The Life Story of a Pompous Heiress— VIJYANTIMALA in

*JASHAN'

with Karan Dowan, Kuldcop Kaur, Johnio Walker

Murad and PRAN & ACHA

Music by Roshan-Songs by Krishana

With English Subtitles

Regular Pricos

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD

CAUSEWAY BAY, FEL 78721

SHOWING

KOWLOON, TEL-53500

TO-DAY

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

You will experienco omotions you have never felt before in this masterpiece of raw passion in the steaming, jungles of Mexico!

*

LOVE!

LUST! and

VIOLENCE!.

The shocking story ul

for deadly mahogany

jungles and those who

live and die in ii!

TOP THRILLS

IN SLOW MOTION!

Jose Kohn presents

Pedro Armendariz *REBELLION OF THE HANGED

Based on the book by, O. TRAVEN -

Directed by ALFREDO B. CREVENNA,

Pgraphyby GABRIEL FIGUERDA Produced by JOSE KOHN

* Boltond the UNITED ARTISTS

ADDED ATTRACTION

SEE IT NOW ON FILM!

BETTER THAN RINGSIDE

ROCKY MARCIANO vs ARCHIE MOORE

OFFICIAL HEAVYWEIGHT. CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST!

Released The United Arfleto

COMING SOON •

Jane Russell

Jeanne GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES

THE "CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1955.

FILMS

"Hit the Deck” is one of the happiest musicals I've scen for ages.

For a start it% got a lucky namo-I seum to remember an aunt rhapsodising over a dream boy culled Gene Gerrard in the earlier version of "Hit the Deck" and Presto! here's

an- other Gone in the cast-Gene Raymond,

He may be no swoch producer Hiko his original namėsako-his is the unsympathetic role of the middle-aged would-be seducer, but at least he's got the name.

No exploitable associations are needed to boost the rest of the cust however, They don't rely on their publicity and/or reputations to work for them, they come straight through the screen to tell you they're having a wonderful time,

The Admiral-Waller Pigeon to you-has two children. One is a sailor doing his tour in the tanks before Annapolis (Dart- mouth us) and the other is Jane Powell with mind of her " own and that mind. (temporari- ly) on the middle-aged matinee Idol mentioned above-Gene Raymond.

Comes along The sailor brother, sees sister apparently being taken in, and proceeds to bring in his two palk to avenge her honour.

for

Sailors three are, first, as the brother, that delightful snub- nosed brat from "Seven Brides Seven BrothersRuss Tamblyn. Second is Vic Damone playing the son of a singing mather (he finally marries the headstrong daughter), and third, Tony Martin,

No Lack Of Talent

In This Film

can see,

the

Current's

Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

EMPIRE: "The Black Pirates". "Anthony Dexter returns to plak up his buried lool, to find that a church has been ball over the site and a village hits grown up around it. Problem: How to get the treasure,

HOOVER and LIBERTY!" "Hit the Deck", A happy musical with plenty of pep and a good east. Debble Reynolds, Jane Powell, Ann Miller, Vio Damone, Tony Martin and Russ Tamblyn.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Chlef Cruzy Horse". A western telling the story of the famous adversary of General George Custer, Victor Mature, Suzan Ball and John Lund. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Robellion of thio Hanged". A tale of revolution in Mexico. Pedro Armendaris.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "My Blster Eileen". A musical.

Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon and Betty Garrelt. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Seven Year Itch". The moral of the tale is that it is foolish to go off alone on holiday leaving your husband to the meroy of the girl in the next apartment. Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Interrupted Melody". Part of the life-story of the world-famous Australian singer, Marjorie Lawrence, Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford, KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Far Horizon". Тhе сток- country expedition by the U.S. Army to and out what lay on the other side of the Rocky Mountains. Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston and Donna Reed.

"Foxfire". A poor litle rich girl tries to build up the self-confidence of a half-caste Apache by marrying him. Jane Russell and Jeff Chaudler.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes”. Show business, 1920 and 1955 style. Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain, with Scott Brady and Rudy Vallec.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:

thni

"New Oricans Uncerisored".

The cleaning-up of a mob-ruled city. Arthur Franz and Beverley Garland.

"Tall Man Riding". A western. Randolph Scott and Mala Powers,

ROXY and BROADWAY: "How To Be Very Very Popular".

A college musical. Betty Grable.

that stand outside some of the shops in America.

There's no

doubt about the fact that he takes his

role seriously--I'm not complaining about that-l's merely that this is an average western that would have sild by quite happily If there hadn't been a big namo in the main part, and it makes Mature look foolish.

Crazy Horse is ambitious, but not materially so. His feelings are with his poople and when to wipes out Custer (an opern- tion which morefully we don't sec) it is in order to teach the white man the lesson that the red man's land must be loept free.

Well, it's not a new thought and we've met it in many less- publicised pictures. But seldom has it been presented with such an attempted sense of dedica- ilon.

Liko most of tho westerns, this alm is almost entirely on the side of the Indians. Mature is allowed to bo in love (European style) with his squaw, Suzan Ball, and to be genuinely grieved when his child dies.

This is all to the legendary hero's credit, but, I'm old- fasirioned enough to ke my Indians a little more phlegmatic as to feeling end a shade less detached about their hereditary

enemy, the white man.

who

Crazy

was

John Lund has the rather thankless role of a major in the United Statco

Army "understands" Chief Horse and is rather inexplicably allowed to go unpunished after he ins made no attempt to stop the Indian from annihilating Custer's band, It's true he was lying wounded and disarmed in the Indian camp at the time, while they've been off an To start with I was dis- and did not know what other operations, a village has appointed in Lon Chaney being planned, but I think there grown up around the buried forsaking his villainous roles for might havo been just the

and that right loot,

over it once-as As you

there's no stands a church.

# Roman Catholic gesture of a Court Martial after-

A lov Incic

of talent in either

priest. He improves is the ple- wards, to clear the air, family or the friends, and the While most swahsbucklers ture progresses, however, and of loose ends in "Chief Crazy

Horse"! songs, situations and humour have a fairy-tate bloodthirstiness his courageous defence of his roll along at an express rate. that leaves no lasting impres- villagers under the menace of

sion on the mind, there's a cer- the pirates we then dis The Seamy Side

who are trying to I'd like to give a special, men- tain

coarseness and brutality. to Ann Miller for her about this one that makes it appeared to shows much feeling terrific number "Lady from the more life-like.

and sympathy. Bayou". With a background of

April Stevens- the gramo- dancers reminding. one of the.

phone record star who

made Katherine Dunham school, it's

her name by recording some numbers that had simple words straight jungle stuff with the slightest splash of sophistication

but a sizzling Stevens delivery, Kelly's Blues" — an unusual Soon we'll be seeing "Pete to give it universal appeal.

sings "Am in love?" during the "Tho Black Pirates" and gangster story having 89 although it hasn't a great deal its background the jazzy, to do with the story, I find neurotic

between period A murder within the first two I've made several notes on it, 1920 and 1930 when, ini minutes of the opening of the testifying to its temperature America, decency died and picture sets the tempo, and the raising qualities. breath-taking scenery against My sympathies were all with the racketcers took over. which it is set only accentuates the girl-Martha Roth, but as, the cold-bloodedness of the in so many out of the ordinary like from the comfort bie action.

pictures they are, perhaps it's a pinnacle of 1955, from where personal preference that

we're inclined to feel "IL shouldn't be alred

couldn't happen today".

tion

Is

The three girls in the cast are excellently contrasted. Debbie Reynolds is sweet, sentimental and teenagey; Jane Powcl! Bilglilly brisk, sweet, and a little niore experienced, and Ann Miller is basically sweet, physically attractive and super- Acially hard-boiled. Which means that they all, having the common denominator, end up with men who will give them all they deserve,

To return to my opening as- sessment of the picture, it's

one of those happy, snappy, | fast-moving affairs that makes you forget that life isn't always us carefree 13 show business makes it appear.

A Blood-Chilling Swashbuckler

"The Black Pirates" is a swashbuckler, but there's a dash of the unusual about it,

It has the usual Hollywood ingredients for a picture of this type-plenty of swagger from the principal malo, a good giri, a bad giri and plenty of light- Ing. But the handling is more reminiscent of a realistle Mexi- can production than of the Hollywood varicly in which every move is part of a very well-worn pattern.

I liked the new locale San Salvador, We're introduced to the pirate gang as they thread their way across the hills to the point. at which the leader Anthony Dexter-mys he can take a bearing on the exact spot under which he has buried the plunder from a previous CX- pedition.

Alarm, confusion and dis- may are reflected in the faces

of the band when they discover

J

ORIENTAL.

These arc по dressed-up brigands mouthing empty threats out and falling to carry them through last-minute changes of heart. There's nothing of the romantic novel type about them. They are cold, unfeeling and base.

—————APOLOGIES FROM

OUR UBIQUITOUS

FILM CRITIC .....

Who Forsook An Itch

An ImMature Crazy Horse

Of A City

At least, that's what it looks

That

the roaring twenties didn't have a monopoly in the field of crime, producer Sam Katzman reminds us in "Now Oricans Unotasored”.

Il'e a present-day picture of vice, corruption and extortion, Chief Crazy Horse, the with the reins being held by the man who was responsible for waterfront unions.

In The Cause Of Duty the defeat of the schoolboy's

a

As yesterday WAS hollday I was faced with a tricky problem. The notes on films that you're read- Ing today had to be in early and in addition, by. lunch time on Thursday *The Seven Year Itch" hadn't been previewed to the Press, and I'd not been oble to FCC elther "Rebellion of the Hanged," "My Sister Elloen" "Chief Crazy Horse."

or

What was to be done? Cut myself into quarters, or see the three latter ones at three different shows and leave Miss Monroe until next week, knowing full well that most of Hongkong will dash to goo her anyway, whatever my comments on her might bė.

I decided on the latter course, and if it sounds ar though Sister Ellcen about to gallop across the Page wearing feathers and carrying a rope-then I crave your indulgence.

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

4-Track Directional Stereophonic Sound--Wide Screen!

20th Century Fam prosents s':

house

bamboo

SPECIALI

ROBERT RYAN-ROBERT STACK.

SMRLEY YAMAGUCEM -

-CAMERON ·

The "legitimato" unions aro hero, George Custer, is

whitewashed, and the black played with determination unions are shown up as being and pigtails - by Victor run by crooked gang leaders, Mature.

but one has the feeling that although the ending is tidled Somebody must have said to up nicely with the villains him before the pleturo was being brought to book, in real started "Dignity, ol' boy-you life there would be enough of gotta havo dignity to play! Crazy them left lurking about Horse".

The only trouble 13 that Mature scems to have confused dignity with Immobility and tho nearest object' I can think of

one of those wooden

with which to compare him, la

Thdians

to

wage warfare against society with such accepted weapons as strikes, go-elow, tactics, and velled intimidation.

Arthur Franz and Beverly

Garland have the chief parts.

(Continued on Page 3 Col. 1)

ROXY & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY

Owing to length of picturo please note change of timos: At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M. SHE'S BACK IN HONG KONG!.

THE SCREEN'S GREATEST SENSATION!

ADD

the seven yearitch

MARII MONROE

Tong Dow

TOMORROW ING AT 11.30 A.K

QUEEN

RKO's Technicolor

"HANS CHRISTI

ANDERSEN”

with Danny Kall

ALHAMBRA

・Walt 'Disney's

COLOR CARTOONS

ATED PRICES

QUEEN'S ALHAMBR/

9.30. 3.15, 1.90 A 230 410. 3.70, 738 A ASEA

SHOW TO-DAY

COLUMELA PA TAPES

MY SISTR EILEI

CINEMASE

COLDE OV

TECHNICO

astring

JANET LEIGH JACK LEMMOR

BETTY GARRET

WAT FOR IT.

RIPS THE LID. OFF!

Sensation: Shockin

COLEMANIA PICTURES

NEW ORLEAN

Starkes

UNCENSORE ARTHUR FRANZ - BEVERLY GARL

HOOVER LIBERTY

CAUSEWAY BAY TEL72371 KOWLOON

NOW PLAYI}}

FAMED STAGE HIT MUSICAL É

ARBLE POTVR

STARKING

JANE

TEL. 80

2.30, 5.15, 7.30 and 9.40 p.m.

THE SCREEN WITH

·HIT TH DECK

TONY

DEBBIE

VIO

Au

POWELL MARTIN REYNOLDS PEON DAMONE-RAYT

ANN

RUSS

MILLER CINESPE TAMBLYN

5 SHOWS ON SUNDAY-1ATINEE AT 12.00₫

LEE

TO-NIGH

AT 7.40 & 9.50

CANTONES OPERA

Admissions: $3.50, $0, $1.70 & $1.00'

EMPIRE

SHOWING TO-DA

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7. & 9.30 P.M. LATIN AMERICA'| ĜAS BOMB- MARTHA ROTH. SINGS "AM LOVE” HEAT WAVES POUR OUTFROM THE She won the "OSCAR" 。11954 by this

ADDED

#Subject -TO-MORROV

The

BLACK PIRATES

TEST PARAM

લખપ

·མ།2

WHITE HEA

REDUCI