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KING'S PRINCESS

AL 11.30 4.1., 2.30, 3.15, 7.20 * 0.30 p.in,

AL 12.20, 2.30, 0.30, 1.30 ✯ 9.30 p.m.

5 SHOWS

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY

HILARIOUS HAPPENINGS! WILD ADVENTURES! THE KING-SIZED COMEDY OF THIS OR ANY YEARI

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DANNY

KAYE

COURT JESTER

VISTAVISION

COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR,

GLYNIS JOHNS

BASEL RATHBONE ANGELA LANSBURY

CECIL PARKER

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KING'S: 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW

Extra Morning Show At 11.30 A.M.

PRINCESS=

At 11.00 a.m.

www

TO-MORROW

SPECIAL MATINEES

A Completely Now Programme

of

Universal-International

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS (First time shown in Hongkong)

At 12.10 p.m.

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

K. Amarnath prosents an Outstanding Indian Film

“ALIF LAILA’

Starring Nimmi, Asha Mathur, Pran, Vijay Kumar, Murad, and Gope

Songs by Sahir Ludhianvf; Music by Shyam Sunder Produced & Directed by K. Amarnath

Regular Admission Prices

HOOVER LIBERTY

CAUSEWAY BAY' TEL.72371

KOWLOON

TEL. 80140, 60248

STARTS TO-DAY

5 SHOWS AT 2.30. 5.30, 7.30, 9.30 P.M. and FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS COLONY A

MIDNIGHT PERFORMANCE

AT

FIRST

SHE

AT 11.45 P.M. (CHINESE NEW YEAR'S EVE)

RESISTED, AND THEN-

PLEDGED

TO PROTECT

ANOTHER

MAN'S

WOMANI

FROM THE PRODUCERS

OF "IVANHOE" - AND TWICE AS THRILLING! SIR WALTER SCOTT'S

QUENTIN DURWARD CINEMASCOPE Robert TAYLOR

SETH PERSPICIA STERKÖPUCINE FOUND

AN

PICTURE

Me Kay KENDALL Robert MORLEY

Theirs was a wonderful love story!

5 SHOWS TO-MORROW

HOOVER at 12 noon, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30, & 9.30 P.M. LIBERTY at 12:30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Special Holiday Matinees: Monday, Feb, 13

Hoover at 12:00 "SOMBRERO" Pier Angeli Ricardo Montalban

Liberty at 11:00. MGM COLOR CARTOONS

Liberty at 12.30 "*7. BRIDES FOR 7 BRÓS:""

Jane Powali lik Howard Kell

Reduced Admission Tuesday, Feb, 14

Hoover at 12:00 "HER TWELVE MEN"..

Greer Garson Robert Ryan

Liberty, at 11:00 MGM COLOR CARTOONS

Liberty at 12.30 “THE STUDENT 'PRINCE!!

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1956.

FILMS

You will have no difficulty In imagining Robert Morely as yet another of history's scheming kinga, but how your mind will react to the thought of Robert Taylor as Sir Walter Scott's Scot- tish nobleman, Quentin Durward, will depend on realistic on how

you like your films to be.

It

a considerable time since i react "Quentin Durward" and whether or not the picture sticks closely to the benski cannot remember.

The Pros

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Book gives credit for the screenplay Robert Andrey and with material from me of the story toliens of all time

to hand it would seem

silly if he hadn't wvalled him if of it.

Referring to my remarks on the east, lef me say that I think

M-G-M rould have done a lot worse then put Robert Taylor into the part of Quentin Dur. wart,

His accent does not clash tom pluringly with those of the rest of the cast who are pre- denniantly British), be tas al-

been

with W nye

associated romantle purts, is athletic and looks

15th well in

century costume asted in kl handsome man in spite of his years.

Apart from one foolish scene CLWAYS the

when Robert ཐཱཧtཉཱd Taylor and his arch enemy slash a way of rach other Banging from belt ropes, It is good att exciting entertainment, h Die swashbuckler range.

Durward's Mission

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of

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: “Quentin Durward", A swash- buckler based on Sir Walter Bootty classic. Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall and Robert Morkey.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Court Jester". Danny Kare clowns his way through life in 12th century England. With Glynis Johns. Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker.

Spectacle.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Kentuckian”, A quietly spoken backwoodsman with a hatred of towns Buri flods that civilization won't leave him alone.

Langaster, Dinna Lynn and Dianne Foster. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Helen of Troy".

colour and fighting. Jack Sernas, Romana Pedosta and Sir Cedric Hardwickr. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Baina of Ranchipur”. A

Power re-make of the Myrna Loy -Tyrone

picture, met this time against a background of modern India Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Michaci Rennle and Joan Caulfield.

COMING

"Madame Butterfly".

The opera.

HOOVER and LIBERTY:

lo Italian KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Purple Mask". A new ver- tion of "The Scarlet Pimpernel“ with Tony Curtis as The Purple Mask, rescuing those marked down for the suillotine. With Colleen Miller, Gene Harry and Dan O'Herlihy,

thousands" is mentioned in con- Junction with a picture it is aften disuppointing to And thot said thousands have not been used to the best advantage and

be though they may

In number, in front of the cameras they appear unimpressive.

There is no such disappoint- ment in "Helen of Troy". On

a gigantic senle is the march by the Greeks towardly the walls of Troy, Implacably the vast hordes advance, carrying their amorm- ous siege engines and relent- Jessly

propelling forward the towers that will release thou- sands of soldiers directly on to the High battingents. Evon more impressive 13the retroat after they have been beaten back, their lowers u sheet of Anne, Their

engines mashed and what is left of their Army

arrying mass of dem feated soldiery.

stego

The RADA Accent

But the grand sweep used in the battle

in less in evidence in the principal charac

Servos is without urs Jack doubt one of the best looking of the recent male discoverley, diction ક

bul

good. tion

NEW YORK

and GREAT WORLD: Foreign Legion Adventure, Ralph Meeler, Maria FogUsh and J. Carrol Naish. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:

"Desert Sands”,

A

although his

words his

Jack convic Podesta

LB

**Pienie".

This is a new ple- ture about which Information so far is Sestuly. Willia Holdon and Kim Novak. ROXY and BROADWAY;

The Deep Blue Sea". The beautiful wife of a posnpour judge ran away with a enrefree test pilot and discovers a new wet of problems. Vivien Leigh. Kenneth More and Emlyn WilliamUR.

of

ku The

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mark

Jens queenly leku than she should be and poor Meneious,

the

of Nuali person Marcinnis, looks

more like disgruntled schoolty tiuits powerful king who is taking his propity to war because his wife has been abducted by the soTI of a neigbouring ruler.

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This abduction. by the way

ingeniously over by making

of chem

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smoothed appear

through

fault

Sir Cedre Hardwicke, always digrined uld gengleman, gives & suitable Hollywoodlan weighti-

tu

part of King Priam and Nora Swinburne, who nast have played countiew queenly comfort, adjusts her crown and szils into her net as faultlessly Ha ever.

the townspapie acted a 11th piece of deception mitty There is a great deal of plot with whom they come in con-

have hich has been practised on us and counter plat It all Sir tact and it is a telinute

minunie thx difference Walter Scott's Iveta

and simple charm with which Burt

what LF non-English "Quentin Durward" is po

Laneuster invests his part that, speaking #ress is obviously ception The Age of Chivalry

in spite of doing some manifestly

ying with he lips and what IN dying. giving place lo stupid things, our sympathy is

Bir sound! trenchery and political intrigue, always with him. when Into France from Scotland ridles our hero. His purpose Ls Soll to take back Isabelle, Countess of Mareroy, as a bride for his elderly uncle

and naturally ynough, because of her beauty, his own feelings

the get way.

However, as he is the hero, honour is greater than ve and both he and Kay Kendall have curit

101 of sighing to du be fore their difficult situation resolvet for them.

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To look at, neither he nor his Are very Prepossessmд. Lancaster looks greasy and washed and insista once again 071 eating his

with his food fingers, in front of the camera. The boy's face has a mulish cast and his Interference when his father fàils for a village school- mistress nothing short spankworthy However, h saving grace is his wall portrayed adoration of his father.

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Mood Of Peace

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the

quäor simple and why it is root aniversally used when

1 is necessary

can't dubbing think The actress merely But they ure TAJI ព very mouths the English words even pleasant lot of people and the though she may not understand only one who resity irritated me what They

was our own Junette Scott, the volee of the person dubbing horribly infatuated teenager in

"As

Long As They're Happy." Synchronises her yolee with the

Hip movemenės. Of With a. RADA accent and a Letras courge, it would not do for

starc she Hypnotised

trists obout the suis declaiming her tiery Magnani, but

for pretty fatal Cassandra-isms until one Podenta, who, like her handsome fending man Jack Sernus, has vet to learn

act, it works to perfectly

When

a

ean understand quite clearly

dodlenie herself to the lifelong

USUAL ADMISSION PRICES

FOR

“HELEN OF TROY”

AT THE

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

239, 1,EK, 1.79 W 9.30 pan.

36 519, 1720 W* 4 30 11 20.

(Plesan Note Apecial Xi mes 'At The Alhambray

SHOWING TO-DAY

5 SHOWS

SUNDAY

MONDAY TUESDAY AT 11.30 A.M

SCENE ALTEK,JUMULTUOUS' SCENE BEYOND ANY YET-SEEN ON THE Spacin!

Warner Bros. Fabuleus Fiming of the Aga el fitons--ỡ yêan and 4 million dollars tù predvesi

CINEMA OPS HELEN of TROY

From the famed "that" a Manat NAS

WARKERCOLOR

ROSSANA PODESTA JACK SERNAS KAROWICKE PARO KADET

— AT USUAL ADMISSION PRICES

This picture will NOT be shown at any Theatre in the Colony

for at least a montha

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD

Causeway Bay, Tel. 78721

•

Kawloon,. Tel. 5350029

SHOWING

TO-DAY

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

why she has been allowed to At First "APACHE", then "VERA CRUZ" servier of the goddess Athena. And Now Greatest Of Them All ·

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The five new pictures appear- ing this week-end are all <15 pected to run at least two weeks cach, so as I have not been able to see either The Court Jester" or "The Rains of Ranchipur" I

151 will deal with them the city "east of week's column.

CAPITOLAITZ

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

MARK ALLEGRET J

Further complications artar for the poor girl when she dis

We have come La expect covers that wlly King Louis XI magificant SCENOTY > all has lus own ideas of a husband CinemaScope pictures, but this for her in under to outwit the time, instead of being a pleasant Before mentioning the actors and 1 confess, put giving many schemes of his equally rasently background or something on inrother, the Duke of Burgundy

which to rest the eyes when of them very hugh mneks for Doddering kings are easy meat the halogue s into - acting ability a word about the for ace king-player Murley and

levity, it forma in integral part spectacular side of this picture. his plottings are made no

of the picture, creating a mood Stane of the scenes are excellent threatening by his unwicky

Bi quiet in the and one in particular to look out for is that in which the Greek body

pastoral scenes. Cole George

the provides

Much has been made of the army is advancing on cowardly gypsy comedy, 03

which

Troy. Burt, of Bght

scene in for both who aples

alden but Lancaster and Waiter Matthau defeats himself by becoming de

lash out at each other with bull voted to Durward.

whips. it livens up the pleture The dialogue could be of a for those who refer netion to slightly higher standard, much

stumblingly

mated Ideals, uf Robert Taylor's consisting of dies the constant menuco of a

uf dour fendin injunctions to various people to pair

Ken "burry" Kendall

or "get out of here" tuckians who tend following but Kay

is so lovely to fath

father and son to Texas, if look at and the picture so necessary, to get what they glossily produced that it think in their revengu. Perhaps| visual attractions dwart its in- I missed the point, or don't tellectual uppeal it is of no con- take seriously enough the rail- sequence.

floutions of the Martin and McCoy" type of family feuds that seem to have been a feature of fire In old Rem

but I Kentucky, "The Kentuckian" is, us found these Fromes brothers a you would guess, full of the pair of comic opera characters, kind of dialogue found under who, though endly enough with their rifles, werd difficult to those amusing cartoons in take seriously. which Maw does all the An arenusdng work and Paw stretches, of bogus cures is full length on the ground, one point and John Carradine, stove-pipe hat tipped over in this part is such a likeable his eyes. The name of this rascal and so convincingly full cartoonist escapes me,

but of confidence in his command of I feel sure he must have language that one feels a menk-

ing sympathy for him. lont his pen to the script However, simplicity wing the writer of "The Kentuckian". day, and against the wiles of the This does not mean that the village schoolmistrers, his well

brother

who

wants slow draw! and the

walking meaning pace of the ploture as a whole him to cottle down, and all the becomes tedious; it is too sincero alber influences of civilisation, for that. I only want to warn Lancaster, and his son remain you not to go to this one ex

firm in their purpose of trekking|12, to Texas. pecting the constant action and test

pace of most outdoor pictures.

Feudin' 'n Fightin'

"The Kentuckian" depends for its appeal on the quiet dignity

norant seller responsible for Burt Lancaster's discomfituro at

Hollywood's Helen

"Helen of Troy", liko of a backwoodsman, played by "Quentin Durward" Burt Lancaster. His

Owes

wife is more to action for its popu- dead and as the Kentucky of the larity or otherwise than to 1820s is getting too crowded and confined for File rostless spirit, any fine delineation of the he collects a little money to character of its title. gether, takes his young son by Another similarity is that both the hand and, like the Davey heroine and hero exhibit a pure, Crockelt who has been stealing if somewhat obvious nobility of Homer so much radio time recently, purpose ---- though "heads out west to follow the meant his Helen, to be as sweet

and unselfish

023 Rosana BUT,"

Completely at home in the Podesta makes her it would woods as are both father and surprise me. izon, they are no match for the And speaking of Rosmarin

cunning cupidity and trickery Podesta, It acers harmless

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At 12.30 p.m. "MONEY FROM_HOME”.

ORIENTAL

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STOOGERS' VARIETY PROGRAMME"

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|Tuesdays":

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MOUNTAIN OF A MAN:

Hunter... Frontiersman...

Adventurer...

He was all

these and

more--this

Kentuckian

they called a Mountain of a Mani

LANCASTER Kentuckian

CINEMASCOPE

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Also Starring:

DIANNE FOSTER DIANA LYNN

· JOHN MĊINTIRE » UNA MERKEL - JOHN CARRADINE • JOHN LITEL WALTER MATTHAU DONALD MacDONALD Screenplay by R.B. GUTHRIE, JR. • Besat sapon the weapf "The Cadila Hom". By FELER BOLT

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