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KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE'

AT 2.30, 5.30. AT 2.30, 5.30,

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1955.

IZ FILMS ATAS

AT 2.30, 5.15, 17.20 and

9.30 p.m.

7.30 and

9.30 p.m.

TO-DAY

Dean and Jerry are cutting up on the campuét

Hear five

gral www

sneg hits!

MOURE NEVER

Color by TECHNICOLOR

TOO YOUNG

7.30 and

9.30 p.m.

VISTAVISION

DIANA LYNN NINA TOCH

RAYMOND BURK

t'aul Jones Norman Taurog Sidney Bhalon

Arthur Bahwalze Šumery Cahn

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S

At 11,30 a.m. Disney's Techn. Feature Cartoon "PETER PAN"

Admission:

PRINCESS

At 11.00 a.m. Techn. Cartoort "JOHNNY THE

GIANT KILLER" & Froo 4 Cows Milk $1.00, $1.50

PRINCESSE

EMPIRE

At 11.00 a.m. Paramount Techn.

Cartoons "POPEYE THE SAILOR" otc.

40c, 70c, $1.00

TO-MORROW AT

12.10 P.M.

Kwatra Art Production present an Indian film of dances, songs, mirth & fantasy

"TIS MAR KHAN"

Starring: Agha & Shyama, with Sunder, Roop Mata, Madan Puri, Gulnar

With English Subtitles - At Regular Prices

.יול

ROXY & BROADWAY.

SHOWING TO-DAY

Owing to length of picture ploato note change of times: AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

The Tall Men stood tall.... fought tall....love tall.... and one man towered above them all!

10% OR MURYJOI present

CLARK JANE ROBERT

GABLE RUSSELL RYAN

with

CAMEROSI MITCHELL CinemaSCOPE

COLOR by

THE TALL MEN

ROXY & BROADWAY: 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW,

Extra Performarice

of "THE TALL MEN” Át 12.00 Noon

BROADWAY:

5 SHOWS ON MON., 26th & TUES., 27th

DEC.

Extra Performance of "THE TALL MEN" At 12.00 Noon

CAPITOL RITZ

Final at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 &→ SHOWING TO-DAY

9.30 p.m.

CRIMEA MENILI posette

VAN HEFLIN

CINGASCOPE

TECHNICOLOR

AND

PRAY

Morning Shows 25th Dec. (Sunday) At 11.00 a.m. Walt Disney's TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At 12.30 p.m. "VEILS OF BAGDAD"

To-morrow ---- "SEVEN LITTLE FOYS”:

ORIENTAL

AND TUNLE

4-TRACK, HIGH FIDELITY,

SPECIAL MOR

At 2:30, 8:30, 2.30 & 9:30 PAI

STOR CIMO BOMB'I

RICHARD FOOD MICHAEL REDGRAVE

* DA AP! - Mg si Pia Kat‹ med Elah - P

NÇA BAOS

Tomorrow speelal Show "THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE" In Technicolor darring: Errol Flynn Quiddi

Special Show At 12,30, F.M. On 20 & 27 December "COLT 45" in Technicolor starring: Randolph Scott

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 9.30 PM...⠀ STEREOPHONIC SOUND!

TEMENTER JONES

"The Son of Sinbad” is intended as a joke. Even that veteran exponent of the screen sneer - Vincent Price 18 allowed to doft his villain's garb and 88- sume the mantle of the gentle Omar Khyam, replac ing the sneer with a smile.

There is a certain horrid fascination in hearing the pearls

thlo of

philosopher being casually

the feet cast al harem beauties who look though they have just finished parking thetr chewing um behind the nearest property palm tree.

of

as

Don't mistake my meaning- without exception, all the girls are lovely and alt are delight- fully dressed (or perhaps, under dressed would be a truer way of putting it) but I doubt if a word of more than, ong syllable would even penetrate their cars, Jet alone their minds.

exhibits

Dale Robertson too his manly torso at every oppor- tunity and appears to be an in- telligent as the girls he pursues

"Son of Sinbad is a Howard Hughes presentation, however, and as Bir Hughes gifts to the world include Jean Harlow, Jane Russcil and Furth Domergue, it is obvious that he public must know what the wants

Spectacle, colour and some- thing to look at all the time, combined with the maximum number

of pretty girla the screen can take at one Super- scope view, clad in the minimum necessary to get by the censor, would appear to be the require- ments and they are all there in "Son of Sinbad".

David Niven Is

The Villain

IL IA

Д

“The King's Thief" is to be found at the Hoover and Liberty, and has a predo- It's minantly British cust. a tale of England in the reign of Charles II.

swashbuckling adventure-romance attributing a lol of actions to one Michael Dermott that history has pre viously credited tu Captain moustache,

plumed hat elegant mantiers, taken

by Edmund Purdom. His lady fair is Ann Blyth whose American accent seems a Uitle out of place among the more clipped ones of Purdom. Dayid Niven, George Sanders and others.

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Blarus Complete with beard.

and

is

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBĚITY: "The King's Thief”, „Another tilt it history, moving öp to Ctrips 119 réten this time. A High Frade swashbuckler. And miðill, Edmund Pürdom, David Niven and George Sanders,

KING'S. PRINCESS and EMFIRE: "You're Never Too Young", Dean Martin arid Jerry Lewis in another of their crazy comedies. NEW YORK nd GREAT World: “Šon of ŝinbad".

Scantily clad girls, a

a dashing hero and an Arabian Nights atmosphere is the extence of this picture. Dale Robert- son tries hard to be (lla, hero, Vincent Price makes a convincing Quiar, Khayyam and Luf St. Cyr, Mart Blanchard and Sally Forrest wear hot weather clothing. Moro QUEEN'S and ALHAJÍBRA; #Tiger in the Sky",

American jet aircraft, with the home front provided once again by Jone Allyson. The man for whóm she keeps the light to the window is Alan Ladd.

foxt and BROADWAY: **The Tall Men". A western

Jane Russell. Clark Gable, Robert Ryan and Cameron Mitchell.

COMING

EMPIRE. "Bad Boy". A "Blackboard Jungle" type of pletura about juvenile delinquency, starring Audie Murphy. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Love Me or Leave Me".

stormy life of singer Ruth Etting and bullied ber Into poçoring, a, success. Cagney and Cameron Mitchell.

These two will be recognisable d's Clarte Gable and Cameron Mitchell. (Don't get too fond of Mitchell incidentally, becaise ho gets killed off before the end of the picture).

Things are made a bit difficult for the

the audience at the start by a departure from the sccepted rule that in westerns the hero

should be very very good, and the villain very very bad, Clark Gable and

brother Cameron

blot the by behaving They order

copy books

kidnap Robert Ryan in

to rob himi Anyone who saw "House of Bamboo", however, will realise that Mr Ryan is not let them get away with going to let

นาย thin one. He neatly turns tabics on them by coming up with д counter offer. An enormous herd of cattle is to be driven from Texas to Montana there's plenty of profit in it and the brave brothers are just the boys to handle the action chd of the deal for him,

bb They allow themselves to talked into the proposition and it's just about herë question of whether

BLY AN SMINGUTAS

CLASSY

NANA Technicolor

NEW YEAR AT THE QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA.

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

999, 5,15, 7,20 & 940 pm,

SHOWING TO-DAY

$

A HUMAN HEART-WARMING LOVE STORY.

PRET

WARNEM DADS ALAH

LADD

CINEMASCOPE

WARNERCOLOR

JUMES

ALLYSON

"Tiger in the Sky

Thá tring afory of America's first Tripla det Acôf ...........*;

The the gangster who Doris Day, James

that Gable Ryan is to be the hero raises | itself.

the OT

H

5

SHOWS TO-MORROW

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA Extra Performañeó At 11,30 8.th.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "To Hell and Back". Actor Audio Marphy was highly decorated during the war for his courage. This ploture tells of some of his exploits.

**Nana". QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:

Emile Zola's famouM story, with Marline Carol an the lads, herself. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "A flag Alone”. Hay

Kiltar's first shot at directing a plétére til witch he also staro. A western.

"Not As A Stranger". A man's burning ambition to become a good doctor almost consumes his private life, Robert Millchum, Olivia de Havliland, Frank Sinatra and Gloria Grahame, ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Girl on The, Red Velvet

Swing

A melodrama based on this life incident, Ingredients: Л show girl, a married man, a jealotis sweetheart who later marries the girl and shoots her former lover. Joan Collins, Ray Milland and Farley Giranger.

And Our Critic's

Verdict

Jano Russell makes her ap-

pearance now she is described

by the bublety, department MONDAY MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. •

responsible for my information as a beautiful, scit-reliant pro- duct of the frontier". Opinions may differ about her beauty, but there's not much doubt about

her self-confidence. She sings a lille too, mostly while dress- ing, undressing or taking a bath

in a tub that is a shade too small for her long limbs.

She has a shot at romance

Pretty sister is that perennial I Juw extracts from this with cach of the three tall men service wife, June Allyson. She picture rome

time go

when of the title, but in spite of her inust have had so much ex- 20th Century Fox were parad- flouncings, drinking sessions and berlehce in saying hello with ing some of their forthcoming general flightiness, there's not wifely devotion and goodbye ettractions, and at the time I much doubt about the identity with bravery and unshed tears, remember thinking that it of the lucky winner of the that her own husband must

looked like being a westem on bundle of tough charm. have slight misgivings, when he

From the extracts I saw. Д grand scale with in obviously is being met or sped on hits

appeared way, that the emotion has been ageing Clark Gable and Robert colour (De Luxe)

the odd good, the action scenes mpres- fighting. 11 weren't sive, with the four pincipals well rehearsed. The lying seches in "Tiger in trying to outwit each other in coping with their parts as one

outweigh the the Sky easily ground action though anti there are plenty of the former, the film is worth while. The

too

05

new Sabrejet is the real hero of the plece and the photo- of this part

graphy, backed by the sound track havD accomplished the dimeult feat of bringing it with- in touching distance,

For onet, David Niven In "heavy", playing the villainous Duke of Brampton who has designe on throne of England.

the George Sanders, as Charles I

very high receive

wou'dn't

marks in psychology. He hasn't nough perception to realise that although

I have heard complaints that noise heightens the reality the the sound track too loud. The

thrill of the whoosh" of take- off and the roar as the aircraft climb into the sky is most ex-

citing. Far from decrying it, I could take much; more of it and much less of the love scenes be-

tween Alan Ladd und June Ally- son.

A likable fim, and one that one of his former could almost see again if the officers has turned highwayman and has made plans to steal the sentiment were removed. Crown Jewels, his loyalty should not be questioned, be cause it is only a roundabout method of gaining an audience

with himt

Don't take all too seriously and you won't be disappointed.

Private Life Of

An Air Ace

Ryon

moments when,

the callic busincs, for favoury of Jine Russell,

From the slogy of the film, it appears that there is a little more to the tale than this,

I ia board on a novel by someone called Clay Fisher, who in turn reached back into the pioneering days for his material and came up with the first big cattle drive from Texas to Montana in 1867.

Why They Were

Needed

4,000 cattle and 1,000 horses were used lis the stampede sectie, according to my Press Book, and the director, Raoul Walsh has naively gont op record with the following explination: The son needed so many was, of Course CinemaScope. We wanted to All the scroca with cattle

4,000 Cattle And W

Three Tall Men

.

we.

to

Once again, the Roxy and an impression of brate force and power, and after Broadway have found it not testy, we couldn't de it with possible to preview, their less." change of programme, so if

In spite of their, numerical the advertisements of "The superiority, however, the animals Tan Men" do not lure you to do hot steal the whole story. “Tiger in the Sky" has either of these theatres it starts just after the American been written around the life there is nothing I can do to Civil War (as so many westerns brothers ride into the Frontier town of Minerdi City, Montäriä.

story of an American air dissuade you from your in- do) when two trigger Happy ace, Joseph MeConnell, who h

tention. was killed while acting as d

test pilot in 1954.

If we are to believe to facts

as they are presented in the pleture ho rather an

by belg

young

man without respect for Army discipline, fouling it

It with such abandon that it is d wotider He rose to tile rank of cor- poral,

less captain.

ever mu traditional iden

Sull, as

of a

de

"eat,

pilot is that he is a

fellow with drink and ԻՆ merry.** philosophy s possible to stretch a bolt and accept it as a plech

dramatic Heence. After accepting in it's easy to take sides with this impisha young man al he, dudes tho MP's by baling but of

of the alr craft In which He is boirig instructed and roaring, de in a app rod" that

conveniently

to be asking

The buy driving this cakes. him home and thle 1 where Romance takes over.

And The Pretty

Sister Is

NEW YORK - GREAT WORLD

SHOWING ̈ TO=DAY®

AT 2.30, 5.30. (NEW YORK AT 5.15. P.M.)!' .

7:30 & 9.30 P.M.

LOVERI ROVER!

His pretty lathe, though NEW disapproving at frat, can't resist

Alan Lada. He calls; her "Butch" makes his entries and exits through the kitchen

dow and -ochindels

hardly taking

Jumably, időto "deosnia

HOWARD HUGHIN

SON

BALE

YORK Added Attraction at 2.30, 5.15 ở 9.30 p.m.

THE RIVAL WORLD" in EastmartöBIBE Fint Prize Winhl) 27/

Fitilval 1955.

would expect.

QUEEN'S

WB & Columb15*

VARIETY PROGRAM

ALHAMBRA Columbia's

VARIETY PROGRAM

Stooges-Color Cartoons 3 Stooges-Color Cartoons

AT REDUCED PRICES

ALHAMBRA

TUESDAY MORNING AT 1130 A.M.

the

Walt

Disney's

REDUCE

RKO Présents

In

"PETER PAN" Technicolor PRIĈES: $1.50, $1:00 & 70 Chi..

Sheum's Circus

OPENING TO-DAY

2 SHOWS

At 7.00 & 9.30 p.m. SPECIAL PERFORMANCE ON HOLIDAYS AT 2:30 P.M.

THE BIGGEST CIRCUS EVER IN HONGKONG

Come & See

Shoum's - Trámeð: „Horses, Tigers, pardi, Liöns, Elephants, Orang-után, Chimpanzee, etc, Breath-taking Acrobatic Acte.

Town Booking Office:

Wing Hong Firm,

(Old H.K. Hötel Bldg. H.K.) Winter Garden;

Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Thrilling! Wonderful!