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KING'S ★ PRINCESS

A 2.30-300--730 & 9.0 PAL

SHOWING TO-DAY

CINEMASCOPE › TECHNICOLOR

ITH THE SINGIN' DANCIN' BAGA OF THE KANSAS COUNTY BRAWLS/

SECOND

GREATEST SEX

Starring

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JEANNE CRAIN GEORGE NADER - KITTY KALLEN - BERT LAHR MAMIE VAN DOREN · KEITH ANDES · PAUL GILBERT

JIMMY BOYD THE MIDWESTERNERS A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

EXTRA MOrning shoW TO-MORROW

King's at 11.30 a.m. James Stewart in

"THE FAR COUNTRY"

Admission:

PRINCESS

Princess at 11.00 a.m. U-I presents TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

$1.00, $1.50

TO-MORROW AT 12.10 p.m. SPECIAL MATINEE

Satya Roy Production presents an Indian Film

of Love and Intrigue

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956.

FILMS

The Lysistrata theme has been used often in stories. In fact to a greater or lesser degree most women proffer or withhold their smiles to gain what they want.

Martine Carole (who 12- videntally is coming here to- wards the end of May)

last worn in the

Wha

rare, inciting!

the women of Athens for Rome,

I can't remember which) to boli their doors agahis their hus-

bands unth they bad agreed to give up their plans for war on their neighbours.

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Now it is the usually peaceable who leads the Jeanne Craffi moveracht. I'm glad to be able trepant that she does not look like the popular concepikin of a Imale

and emancipat Though

her speeches are tiery, her apperance is as alluring an ever. She rebels in The Second Crentesi Sex"

al.

Cverge Nader is the recipient of mest vt her verbal brickbats and the Ad takes place in the Kansas of the late 19th

Two rival towns are battling

Current & Compr

BY JANE ROBERTS

-This Week's Films

In Pictures

Shelley Winters, Jack Palance and friend in “I Died A Thousand Times".

Lender over the Mongolian Sumpire in the 13th century that consisted of the whole of China, Central Asia, Persia and all Russia east of the Dnieper. However, the picture under review deals only though spectacularly-with the period before his great conquests when ho w3# known inerely IN Temuin

I did not chore the optimism of Pedro Arrandariz at the end of the picture when he said that his counsel wis needed no longer and that he had taught his blood brother all hla wisdom, However, anything to passible In the realm of the cinema ond to return to my cartier comment un **The Conqueror”—It's lovely to look

tit.

Rough & Tough

Baw

Some years ugo 1 Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino in what I thought at the time was a most ex-

for possession of it safe contam And Two Stars From “Guys & Dolls" citing and touching gang-

ing

the County

she

al sti place of the saft

will determine the location ul

The County stat

It's all very light hearted and there are song by Kitty K.len and the rest of the cast.

Terrifying Film

"The

Night

»[ the The

"TAJ AUR TALWAR" Hunter" terriflest me

Daljeet

B. M. Vyas Starring Shashikala Maruti Heera Sawant Altaf & Smriti Biswas Music by Soodipt Directed by Dwarka Khosla

At Regular Admission Prices

Next Change At KING'S & PRINCESS

CHARLTON HESTON - JULIE ADAMS

The PRIVATE WAR MAJOR BENSON |

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"GOOD FUNI"

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TECHNICOLOR VISTAVISION

SUNDAY Morning shOW AT 12.30 P.M.

Warner Bros. presents !! RKO Radio presents "FIGHTER SQUADRON" "THE AMERICANO"

in Technicolor

"

in Technicolor

Joseph L Mankiewicz, director of

GUYS and DOLLS

patronized

TAILOR CHEUNG

during his visit in Hongkong by the introduction of famous movie stars, Cary Grant and William Holden

From left Mr. Richard L. Guardian. Mrs. Guardian, Mr.

Joseph L. Mankiewlis, Mr. Chaung Wood-hol

Just arrived large selection of summer materials including American Dacron and British Mohzir

Theatre Lane, behind Queen's Theatre, Queen's Rd, C. Hongkong, Tai, 63184. Telegraphio Address: "MYTAILOR” HONGKONG,

idea of two orphaned chilel- ren drifting down a river. begging sleeping in barns, for food and being reient- lessly pursued by a mad preacher intent on murder is one of the most horrifle to be thought up as a film theme for years.

And what is worse is tant it Is so well done The acting brilliant; the photography fright oningly threatening withou being obvious, ATIC the

well chosen.

avtors

J

Shelley Winters is the mother Her of two young children. husband, tired 01 seeing his family la want, commits crime for which be is caught and executed. Before his death however, he innages to pass on the hiding place of the monry to the two children. Cleverly he has not told the mother, realls- ing that in spite of his love for her, she is not a strong charue-

10

After her husband's death she

is lonely and dispirited mil

into the smail West Virginia community comes

Frank Sinatra.

in revivalist patter and u re known henceforth as "the regal ligious meeting he leads, full

of talk of love, hate and hell- Bre is an utrenky reminder the mob-frenzy that can worked up by pseudo evange

sts.

look".

is

The similarity goes further. of Susan Hayward is supposed to be be

B Tartar princess who wept off her feet by the leader of the Mongols tribe who by various cunning moves are try

Jean Simmons.

It takes

aler story-"High Sierra". It may be that it has re- mained in my mind because cinema to the my visits then were few and far be tween.

Perhaps if I saw it again the essen that emotions of the past

bu

would

How

eminot

recaptured make itself

upparent. ever, there'-

compensation in sering what. although it is not admitted as such, is obviously a re-make of the proces picture. "Died A Thousand

how us its extiral churaeter criminal with the same affection for animals as had Humphry Bogart in the earlier picture, the sun shamefaced lashes of kindliness and the same menace behind the low-pitched tune of γούστο

The similarity ends there, fr where Bogurt always appears to be relaxed, the restless eyes and Palance give fense bearing kim the appearance of being

and finstont

capable

besttating

Bognst

un-

violence. whereas

Is a graduate

of the

"o' provoke me or I'll get

mud" school.

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The *tory concerns a robbery that goes wrong, a killer's act of compassion int financing operation on the club foot of a young girl (the disinterestedness of the deed is open to question when the young dri is

LOT! Nelson) and a lot of tough talk and rougher behaviour.

Shelley Winters has 10m role of the handsome very much in the news at the ing to gain power and recogni- Lupino's original will. I suppose, be tion from their neighbours.

gangster's girl friend.

Shelley preacher. He has a strong line moment

before Winters makes her a little mora kome time John Wayne, with a minimum convincing though, than did Miss a cer- Lupine, The blonde Shelley amount of dialogue and tain amount of torso exposure coms to have the right sort of brings the proud beauty to her brassy dumbness that would see a hero in a killer who had very kлces, but when he does, he is hardly in a position to appre-little time for her.

Pard, the lovable little dog clate it, being tied up like chicken. tired, hungry and who brings bad luck to all bli filthy.

owners is played by Daisy II, a Love has conquered ail by son of the Daisy who has fen- this time, however, and he is lured in all the "Blondle and embraced and cried over by his Dogwood" pictures. repentant bride ("I take you ferm wife he has previously grunted, which presumably has settled who is miraculously

Cold-blooded

Having shared the cell of the children's father he knows that there is a large suin of money

But as hidden somewhere.

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his attempts to discover the hid- ing place before his cell mate's death have failed, he has track- and in- ed down the family sidiously inveigles himself into

good graces wildered

the

To

and simple

be.

of the

Shelley

ciztails

Winters

give any further of his cold-blooded. secret Mounding of the children, of his merciicas treatment of the trust- ing mother and of his macabre pursuit of the children as they try to escape would make "The Night of the Hunter" sound like A Victorian meledrama. Yet it is

far from thal There lo sound

comman sense in the character of Lillian Gish-an eccentric

maid who be-

old

Iriende

lonely, lost children, and her defence, (armed with a

the shotgun) of her charges as killer prowls round her hous comeUmes visible, com÷Umes no more than & shadow is pro- bably no more over dramatised ban that of a woman delending her home from a Mau Mau ot- tack.

This is not a comfortable film. Its pervading feeling is one of gloom. Yet It is an adult nim. and because of its infrequency in the film world the discomfort of being made to think in tho cinema should be suffered

'Whas' & Whistles

Howard Hughes the star maker presents "The Con- queror" and as a great part of the build-up he has given ouch stars se Jean Harlow and Jane Russell has do pended on an appeal to the eye, you will know what to expect from "Tho Con- queror".

Visually it has been well pro- ducod and directed by Dick Powell.

Seldom have I woen Susan Hayward appear as lovely, A coal and as feraicine. fiho gots. through the dim with a super- cillous air that, in view of its adoption by another film stär

New Films

-At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: EX- "Guys and Dolls": cellent musical, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons,

Sinatra,

Vivian

Frank

Blaine. KING's and PRINCESS: "The Second Greatest Sex": Musical. Jeanne Crain, George Nader.

Kitty Kallen.

NEW

YORK Bad GREAT WORLD: "Night of the Hunter": Murder and Robert suspense. Mitchum, Shelley Win- ters, Lillian GisH, QUEEN's and ALHAMBRA: "I Dlea A Thousand

Times": Crime and punishment. Jack

Palance, Shelley Winters. ROXY and BROADWAY: *The Conqueror": -Spectacle. John Wayne,

Busan Hayward,

COMING

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HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Swan": A princess, ⚫ princo and # moner, Grace Helly, Alec Guinness, Loule Jourdan. KING's and PRINCESS:

"The Private War

of

Major Benson": Comedy. Charlton Heston, Julie Adame

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Stranger Cha Horseback": A western. Joel McCrea, QUEEN'T and ALHAMBRA: "Inbul"; Romijnce, Glenn Ford, Valerie': French, ROXY and· BROADWAY: "The Man Who, Never WA Awar

Clifton Webb, ateria Grahame.

stacland by such close con-

abductor. Hrimy

MAJESTIC

lact with her

At evenly spaced intervals throughout the alm someone SHOWING TO-DAY bellows "Bring wine, music, there shall be 19 and on

me the dancing

come

While the screen audience Is muffled to the ears in furs these voluptuous creatures cavort in slave girl manner and the ive audience around me in the cinema whistled and "whaa'd" (according to their nationality) in a most appreciative fashion. Their costumes, what there were of them, were colourful and fa- genious.

Pedro Armendariz brings more nobility than is necessary to the part of Genghis Khan's blood brother and adviser. while the acting talents of Moorchicad, who 13

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I died

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JACK PALANCE-SHELLEY WINTERS

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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GUYS AND DOLLS

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AIR-CONDITIONERY

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"CAPTAIN CARVALLO" Claudine DUPUIS Marcel PAGLIEROJ SURGES

A Comedy by

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