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'KING'S PRINCESS

At 2.20, 5.10, 7.20 & 0.20 pm. At 240, 5.36, 7.60 & 9.40 p.m,

TO-DAY

A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF ADVENTURE

SWEEPS THE SCREEN!

The swaggering saga of the "Boston Man"

who challenged the gale-tashed Alaskan seas

..for the lips of a Forbidden Woman'

Universal International presenti

Gregory PECK Ann BLYTH

10 Rex Beach's The WORLD IN HIS ARMS Technicolor

COLOR BY

ANTHONY QUINN JOHN MONTIRE • ANDREA KING

veles, BACUS WALSH Incorporate BORDIN CHASI MANUM ROSSENG EXTRA MORning show TO-MORROW KING'S at 11.30 a.m. Universal-International

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

PROGRAMME

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m.

Columbia presents THE 3 STOOGES & TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

PRINCESS

SPECIAL MATINEE

TO-MORROW AT 12.10 P.M.

India Filme prosent an Outstanding Production

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SHAHZADA

Starring Sheila Ramani ~~

Ajit

Begum Para Johnny Walker & Achla Sachdev

Music by

Directed by Produced by Nashad & 5. Mohindar Mohan Sinha Parkash Chhabra

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The

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COLOR

BY COLOR CORD OF AMERICA

Staring Rory CALHOUN

IT SPLIT

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The LENTED ARTS IN TWOI

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THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1956,

FILMS

"Trial" is an adult bletare that shows only too clearly how easily led well-meaning people can be,

They are the victims of a clever manipulator of circum- stances, who, ures tho events leading up to the triat of a young Mexican boy for attcript- ed rape and murder to further the Ends

Communist of the

Party.

The

ho is not the star of the picture, whote action pivots on him, and when he addresses Dr fund- raising

rally. using all the tricks of revivalist meeting leader to rouse them to a pitch of frenzy, his performance puts him in the front rank of the actors of today, The player

Ken- is Arthur nedy.

Oh yes, he's the villai of the piece, but what a mubtie onc. In fact, if one presup- poses that belief in #cutust, however misplaced, is a virtuo In itself, he becomes a danger- ously plausible villain,

As the

pace of the im fust

be interesting, enough to even if the plot is revealed be- forchand, it can do no harm to give a slight idea of what it's all about.

In effect, although

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At his trial o bow lidered Mexican boy fighting for his fe. His lawyer has never tried a case in court before, and his lawyer's partner, although un- nistakably clever, is too smooth a talker and too practised an orator in front of the crowds who are supposed to be putting up the money for a "Save Angel Chavez" appeal to be trusi- worthy.

His supposed crime is that he forced his attentions on a girl at bench party, and because she screamed he killed her. When the searchlights were turned on

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At· A · Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER ́and LIBERTY: “Trial". A courireoin, drama” Iri which an inocent boy tà exploited for political purposes. Glenn Ford, Dorothy Maguire, Arthur Kenistily and Julin Hodisk

Beat KING'S AME PRINCESS: "The World In Ilis Atha”.

Bösöking to the Alaskan seas it the 18504. Adventure, romance and Asticuffs. Gregory Peck. Ann Blyth and Anthony Quinn, NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Yellow Tomahawk'i. Those poor misunderstood Red Indians again, Rory Calhoun and Peggie Castle,

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Plento". A htisky, youjir midn comes to a small town and has all flie females drooling over him. Willfam Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field and Rosalind Russell.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Lieutendish Wote Skiria", Wife goes back into the Army and litisbatid has a hard time trying to be near her. Torn Ewell and Sherco North.

COMING

KODVEN and LIBERTY: "Kismet", A musicat extravaganza with Borodin's muste added. Howard Keel, Ann Bigih, Dolores Gray and Vie Damonic,

"Guys and Delic", A musloat haird on Damon Kanyon's reminiscences about some of his friends lit the New York underworld, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmott, Frank Sinatra and Vivien Blaise,

KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Young Lovers". The dangiiter

of an Iron Curtain official falls in love with as Abierican Emhasty employee and Both are conslitered syles by their Heofile. David Knight and Odite Veridis.

The Slan of tile Cross", Nero. Poppaea and a cast of thousands in the forerunner of modern spretsele ime. Fredric starch, Elissa Landi, Claudelle Colbert and Charles Laughton.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Kiss Me Deadly! A Aflckey Spillane thriller with alinost as hiduly gleis as guns. Ralph Meeker and Alberi Dekker. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "The Blue Continent"". A taminating documentary filmet almost entirety below the waters of the fled Sea.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Oasis". A Frettoh Dicture dubbed

inte English.

to the beach she was found dead permet and the Forces' Beyond

and he had no story. His deferice is simple: an innocence of mind that would not have been cap- able of even imagining that with which he is charged,

An Excellent

Performance

There is far more) to the case however than the mere question of whether or not the boy will die. Glenn Ford as the young inexperienced lawyer has been, removed from a teaching post at University because he possesses no practical experience Douglas of his subject-law. Kennedy is at first the answer to his problem.

of

Kennedy hus been asked to defend the Chavez boy, but s obviously far too busy with his political deals. Glenn Ford is he

eyed dreamer who In the innocence of the belie youth. He will do his best, in conjunction with Kennedy course, to get the boy off, but if he fails, great political capital can be made of the "rocial prejudice point of view,

There is

an excellent formance from the negro judg trying Hernandez-En adequate from Dorothy Maguire

10 change prepared Kennedy to Glenn Ford,

Crist

per-

Juano

one who is

tram

and

Ford himself, while not soaring to any heights greater than he 199 ranched in previous sympathy by pictures, galns appearing to belleve sincerely in the part he is playing.

ing

Katy Jurado is disappointing. Her recent has deteriorated to the point of becoming barely intelligible, which, while keep

Character of a up the simple Mexican woman, does not help the dialogue.

But this is Arthur Kennedy's although he has picture, and been bit the acton for many years in supporting roles, they Eave not been, as frequent as his performances, hive marited and it would be a very good thing to see him more often.

10,000 Hours Under The Sea

"The

Blue Continen!" was made by a group of enthusiasts who spent ten. thousand hours skin diving under the waters of the Bed Sea

:

Txt to a scientifle picture a documentary 8 you like but

the photography has been

musical

Handled with wiels: Semiginations that there is not a dull moment during the whole period it lasts, The colour underwater L unbelle background, while never

lovely - and

Intruding flung to etilmakce the feeling

mystery and sorter in the

world so far Helow the

On the procal dião," it tel

to see how commily interesting the team of explorers (including nen, the wife

feat that dres

the participants was refreshing.

Their Control

"The

Lieutenant

The sing is that his wife

· hasn't walled to hear the result of his test, but, thinking that klo immediate posting to Taltyo Įwas assured, his dashed out to re-enlist us a W.A.F. lleutenant in order, supposedly, to be near. her husband,

When she succeeds where he has falled, he spends the rest of the picture trylity to get her back to his side as a civilian,

The New York Times critle

describes it gaiignra conspicuously-unreal". Though to be fair, he does pretade this by saying that "these two ex- ceptional specimens of the Human race (referring to Tor Ewell and Sheree North) "Man- age to beat a little fun out of the nonsense,"

Red Indians & The Yellow Tomahawk

A few years ago when small boys played cowboys and Indiana It was always the less aggressive who were made the redskins. This was not because of the current trent of white- washing the redskins and showing them as misunder- stood natives whose hunt- ing grounds the bad white men were invading. It was merely that beenuse of the unpopularity

had they hitherto suffered in West- erns, the weaker boys were less envied accorded the

side,

Nowadays It's a very different story and quite often the Red Indian Is shown as a noble savage, justinably incensed al the rela

hunters, invading his territory and provoked by the Indcefsion and stupidity of the mikary.

Any mall boys left who are Wore no playing at being Man from Mars are now fighting for the

it

I could pick out many polats from this im that will haunt The de- me for a long time. solute howling of the wind round a derelle: oil drilling camp the former owners having vanished Skirts" has not been pre- into the wilderness; the strange viewed to the press, and as feeling that must have been ex-

by the

woman it only started yesterday perlenced by the young wor and her husband when they ex- was not possible to see it plored the underwater remains of before this column went to

ship a sunken Italien

hact they ace danced on

on at ship's parts

rty press, ce

married; the This picture before they were hieroglyphics on anclent graves marital difficulties of an Ameri- they came across in the desert can couple who have trouble in indecipherable by even the most gelling together again after he iearned experts, All these things has failed his physical examina combine to make this a memor- tion when called up as an Air able picture.

Forte reserve offleer,

A scene from 'Picnic”.

concerns

STAGE CLUB

present TO-NIGHT "OTHELLO”

LEE THEATRE.

at 8.30 p.m.

Booking in advance át

Lee Theatre, Booking Office

(opposite EdinbuHİY

The

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privilege of being on the of the redskins.

side

"The Yellow Tomuthawk"

Rory Calhoun is a good white min-ah Indian secus who

a friend ib both red and white

allike and gets duly rewarded for his publie spiritedness, but he is about the only one,

The rest are the usual bunch adventurers of one sort or bi- other, with Fergie Castle and Rita Moreno es the two girls.

The Prince And

The Poacher

"The World In His Arnis” (what a foolish title!) takes us back to 1850, which in safely enough in the past for the improbable to happen without anyone challenging it.

Gregory Peck has been doing a little

seal poaching up in Alaskan waters urd has come down to San Francisco to whoop it up and make li éssential, from the apparent lavishness of the party he throws, for him make another quick excursion to pay for his celebration,

to

This is very much to the laste

of a

a Russian countess who is neeing from ate sultör and only tob prepared, in spite of her ribbons, bows and bangles, to chatige him for another.

It stélts a somewhat improb able swop, de her beautifully uniformed and very much decorated Prince Semyon looks as though he smelle a lot sweeter that the sed captain.

However, as Prince Seymon 1

Esmond (who only gold

supportftig perts in fins and Gregory Peck is the stafdring mun, Aha Blyth hasn't much cholce

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Murder!

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