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THE THREE

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MONDAY, 23rd JULY

"KING SOLOMON'S MINES"

Starring:

Stewart GRANGER

TUESDAY, 24th JULY

Deborah KERR

"AN AMERICAN IN PARIS"

Starring:

Cond KELLY

•

Lastic CARON

WEDNESDAY, 25th JULY

"ANNIE GET YOUR GUN"

Starring: Betty HUTTON * Howard KEEL

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TO-DAY

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A Chinoso Picture - Dialogue in Mandarin Admissions: $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 & $3.00 MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M. WALT DISNEY'S

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July 26

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July

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July

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Sat.

July

Sun.

July

30

29.

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July

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"ROMAN HOLIDAY"

Starring; Audrey HEPBURN — Gregory PECK

Paramount Provents

"REAR WINDOW”

Starring: James STEWART – Gence KELLY

Viet Vision Technicolor

Warner Bros, presents

"EAST OF EDEN"

Starring: James DEAN - Jo Van FLERT

CinemaSecpo Wazer Color

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/ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1956.

FILMS

There was a "Full House” sign at the Queen's cinema on Wednesday afternoon when I went along to noe the first show of "The Vanish- ing Prairie".

i have not been able to get the opinion of any of the many ghildren I saw there, but for my- self, I was n jittle dimmypointed,

The Living Desert" was such good einen Dy well as being interesting and well photo. graphed that it seemed though Walt Disney could not fall to come up with another winner".

Perhaps the fault was that he kept too clung to the formula used in the earlier pleture and in nying Lo re-use it let vu

the more successful

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inctory.

The background for instance is not as varied or as colourful as "The Living Desert” and 100 vicze a concentration

the hårdhs and beasts palis after tires

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The antics of the pricele dog tamusing and it is diffcult to imagine how some of the undur-

photographs Band outu.fox Their struggle for 4x100 15 well illustrated by reivierces to their many enemies. aad

a chance Rives Walt Disney

[emeli, Inlet, badgers, owis, ele, How- ever, a delight in all unimals

protect one from Alight irritation at the length of Life

spent with the prairie dog.

coyotes,

Children's Favourite

of a bison

parent

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Current & Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

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This Week's Films In Pictures

Richard Egan and Jane Russell in a scene from "The Revolt of

A

Mande Stover".

Siam In Colour

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to push her along the

road.

Most

It ceme I was wrong. people, male and female slike, have a

fbe ipcret loathing spidemeyen the smallest pt the species- und producer Willem Alland was confident enough that there same people

sonsutions tickled to have come up with a gruesome Ittle plece called "Tarantula",

would pay to have their

now!

PL JA wildly far-feteled quite silly a parts, yet li will possibly have à morbid Misch- tion r those who are not tcu fussy about credibility.

The pleture's main elulm to horrific famo lies in the fact that it is supposed to cecur $11 The present to present-day Earth dwellers, thereby dis mong my hopes the timid or the squeamish might have that they RIC sceing the morbid druten et 2 sub- or super-linien

From outer space.

in one particularly absunt scene close to the end, the U.S. Air Force is called out to bomb und safe the spider now

gigantle Krown to

proportions und the force then gets com- pletely out of hand.

It Escapes!

*Science"

kas pan of

is allowed mal- cling acquaintance with the story by way of an experiment with picture not to be missed, dame

Les G. CHu stage mannerisins docs synthetic food but don't be disappointed if it 12

well as the easily recognisable und A very pretty Resistan doesn't

neach quite

(Mana "Contine, the your Colonial lady who is determined expectations Disney FC1 him to stick to her hat and shoes the film)--are engaged on this melt a very high standard with

1tv f fact- whatever tredignities are heaped app gently a "The Living Desert",

b. and Murers Swan Blading in a lonely house uut it lasteriet who shows that the casert,

There not rely on her looks

have already been two horrible deaths in connection with the work, now、ver, su‡ 29 we, the audience, have been let Into the iceret that "treated" tarantula has escaped from the taborgtory-without apparently the auxitly to causing much .mewhat particus seientist-ite obvious that the creaturs, like Allee in Wonderlund, is going to grow and

grow and quite a lot of trouble.

is certainly not a flm I would have Sens to froin hue. It war. He 1 lunt to ri Huronggit it is the courte of duty, Jinum adanit to a grudging ret-

Showing with "The Vanishing Prairie" at the Empire, Queen's In Alhambra cinemas is a other Walt Disney produc- tion -- “Siam".

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I will not dwell on the many sad moment:

of the nimthe death of the children: the bugs

stess of the realisation that o in pile of reaching what they think to be journey's end time This is a pleasing documen. and tie again, they must oner lary, wejf photographed in me wander on in search of a colour

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with humour

the instruction

und a Japanese pilion comp. chaun.

e-present fear that they may histeherad out of hand 111 rier that they may no longer a feeding and housing rob im to the Jmianese,

the way In which the While the incidents form :: the main part of the film, it is built up to the pa

nacs of improbability which a piece of hope, showing formed the climax. with the Birdied ineans at dulto the commercial flin dues, that courage and 11 refaeli be Leaten Ik still Legouuble currency in this world

automation.

In "The Vanishing Prairie", as the lite hggests, Disney has singled out the birds and animals whose numbers are dwindling and to hold the attention. the narator interposes remarks on the actions of the subjects on the screen Some are a holy and others a hindranes.

The scone showing the birth

is included in

itis version and while being a little distasteful. has been Addre

It has wisely evatied the cap Y quite unemotionally and in my opinion, can cause no anxiety trup of parading the innumeratale

the sensible

and Lempics

of Bangkok, teacher, The

more positive stead, with only a short exeur- instruction child reoctyes on

Sin inte the port and vir nwalters of thus sort, The fest unhealthy whispering there will be

aumaly photo- the sougar, pather, a wh phove kan of his meny Bates you wish to

will probably

The Chilchen's farmurtle emphasised that he is meao marauder that he is often ma but hills only when

Fungry. 1

His grace superb and the alow motion pe (thes are used often in Vanishing Tratrie")

Of all graphed,

The

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not the

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

FOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Three Musketeers": A swashbuckler. tanu Turner, Gene Kelly. KING's and PRINCESS:

****Tarantula":

Ноггог Alm. John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "A Town Like Alice": About women POWs under the Japan CSC Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Marie Lohr, QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA EMPIRE: "The

and Vanishing Prairie": welt Dianer feature.

and BROADWAY: ROXY

"The Revalt of Mamie Stover": A girl in love with money, Jane Rus- sell, Richard Egan, Joan Lexile, Agnies Aloore- head,

COMING HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Ransom": Search for a kidnapped obitd. Glenm Ford, Donna Reed, KING'S and PRINCESS:

The

Return of Jack Blade", A western. Johnn Ericson, Mari Blanchard, Neville Brand,

סודיי

Spollern": A western. Rory Calhoun, Jeff Chandier,

Anio Baxter. NEW YORK ùnd -GREAT WORLD! **210 Quiet Man": Romance, and whimsy in Ireland. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Vlotor-MacLaglen, Barry Filzgerald. QUEEN's and ALHAM- BRA: “The ... River Change':

boundary change and ity effect on . Germán hơnes. ROXY and BROADWAY:

John

and Julie'': The adventures of two chills dren trying to kón・・ the - Coranation,, Moira Lister,

Notud MIlleton, ́ ́ Coti=" niaños · Cummings, Wii- frid: Keđa. While,

Comstatics of Stone Royalty, concentrates on a typical family living one sampan.

Like their Darts, they mannge to squeeze a phenomenal number of people, inte their mall boat and as the cat is to the Siamese what the chow dog in to Hongkong sun- hawlled in pun dijera, the crew.

Chincse enner.

The end of the docum afwey

parti ularly fin

"tor

He wouldn't win any prizes my show. but therurter in face would shame many a movi

His hilariou Fud Bat with a mere intdlubber who has effrontery to hall him s the boat passes was one of the highlights of ly afternoon's cinemagojng.

the

Nevil Shute Film

Anyone who read Nevil Shute's

**A Town Like Alice" and was not moved by the courage displayed by the forgotten women of the Klory must be very hard- boiled and cynical indeed.

Separated from their menfolk, at the complete mercy of thel Japanese captors and only ton nware that their presence was an Unibarrassment the enemy they could have been forgiven for any form af mental or physi- cal breakdown.

Yet though this is admittedly a work of fiction, it is based on truth and any major distortion would have called down abuse and worte on the head of the author.

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have left Pater Finch unlit Jan. 2

because 11 201- Hematic falls below Virginia McKenna, but beemist hhh elever artist hal term automatitally expects he 12 of ham art... delon dis

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"Tavanluki". leaving ward on Mara Corray. her in this, you'll

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the picture and although my bought was Unned with relief "The Daly that there was to be a short rest no stretch of the imagination from the leubles of the women, ceus envinge how a picture of the sequenes in which they put this type could take more than their truck

cut of commission 2 few weeks to complete, Miss

end her day

core, H. in order to stay back with them

ReBion hould be here

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had the authentie ring of dry horrify us before the end of the

Australlan humour.

'Horrific'

tuminer,

'Mamie' Delayed

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD

|~Causeway Bay," Tel. 78721, 78155. † „Kowloon, Tel. 53500

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M."

VIRGINIA MCKENNA PETER FINCH

A TOWN LIKE ALCE

with MARIE LOHR RENEE HOUSTON

JEAN ANDERSON - HAUREEN SWANSON

Pembroke by jobb JADR

LES

SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12,30 P.M. NEW YORK: "HENSEL AND GRETEL"

GREAT WORLD: United Artists Colour Cartoons

QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA EMPIRE

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AIR-CONDITION E D

QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA & EMPIRE 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.l2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9,30 p.m. SHOWING TO-DAY

NEW HORIZONS OF ENTERTAINMENTI..

Walt Disney's

Sikring NEW Trus-Ufe Adventure Feature1

THE

VANISHING PRAIRIE

QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA

COLOR

-

EMPIRE

5 SHOWS TO-MORROW "THE VANISHING PRAIRIE” QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

EMPIRE

AT 11.30 A.M. AT 12.30 P.M.

CAPITOL BITZ'

I thought the fashion for horror pictures was com.

As the success of "The Man pletely dead and that the anti-climax of raising a held it over one more day, it has In The Gray Flannel Suit Fas laugh instead of a scream of been impossible to

be Revolt of Mamie Stover"——it has terror was too great to

At 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. not been previewed to the Press. risked by any of today's A review of the picture will ap producers.

pear in this column next week.

See The SHOWING TO-DAY (FINAL TO-DAY

ORIENTAL Majestic

So au well as being a moving SHOWING TO-DAY

work of fiction, it is all the mor powerful for being a faithful

cproduction లక్

events that

really took place.

British think of no 1 can nctress available to the J. Arthur Rank Organisation who would have better fitted the role of Jean, the young typist whose courage and determination, almost scrawly jodged Ja frame, supported and comforted those lonely women driven alin- lessly backwards and forwards through the Jungles in an effort to "lose" them.

Hers

no flag-waving, speech - moldog. haranguing leadership, it is the natural, almost bovine kind, of refusal sdmlt defeat and the Simplicity to deal with Each problem ng it presents itself.

book wili

To have read the

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

A mighty story of the last dangerous buffalo hunt!

STORTI

CINEMASCOPE COLOR

LAST HUNT

TAYLOR-GRANGER

not diminish the appeal of tits Morning Show To-morrow 18.30

film, for while it possesses enough action to please those, whose main Interest is to Ro how it all turns out, most of the emphasis has been placed on characterization, and the presentation, within the frame- work of the book, of collection of human being behaviour in ocrlain altuations with their make-up. While The

un- doubtedly

Virginia Ko to McKenna, hora is not a limetight- stealing performance which Loaves nothing for her fellow motors, Mario Lohur, althougła - xminining vestiges of her grande

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To-morrow Moming Show

"DESTRY'

Color, by Technicalor.

SUNDAY 22nd July

at 10.30 a.m. Indian Picture:

"SHAHI MEHMAN"

with your favourite Stars SHYAMA & RANJAN

BY BIPIN: RASUL

BATTLE STATIONS!

Maring JOHN LIND

WILLIAH BENDIX

KEEFE BRASSELLE

RICHARD BOONE WILLLUM LESLIE

& COLLECTURÉ

Sunday Morning Show Af 12,30 p.m. Randolph Scott In "TALL MAN RIDING"

in Wamercalor

At 2.30, 5.30, 7.800.30 p.n

BY REQUEST

A LOVE STONY...posibly one of the greateAtt

Witam HOLDAW

picnic

Kim Novar

To-morrow - "THE LAST ACT"

A Columbia Picturo

RÒX Yɛ BROADWAY

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY AT 2.30, .5.30, 7.30 and 9.30, P.M..

JANE RUSSELL RICHARD EGAN

TO-MORROW ROXY: At 12.00 Noon -

{^-- Puccini's 'Iminorial ¡“MADAME NUTTERFLY"

AIA TECHNICOLOR Starring: koru,NACHIQURA

Niccia FILACUNIDI.

The Revolt of

MAMIE STOVER

CINEMASCOPE ME LATER

MORNING SHOW:

BROADWAY? At 11.00 *.m. ** NKCON Radio proactieON "LACKBEARD THE FLATW

Bláiringi lobert NEWTON" Linds DARNELL-

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