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GEORGE GOBEL

MITZI GAYNOR

DAVID NIVEN

TETAVIBROM

REGIHAD GARDINER - FRED CLARK

MONEY SHIELDOW I PRESTON STUNNER

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FILMS

The game af George Gobet will be unfamiliar to the mujority of people in Hongkong unless they have resided for any length of time in America during re- cent years.

He has never made a Dim before "The Birds and the Bety", his private le is unsensational enough for his photograph not to have appeared in the now- papers wid

14-year-old

marriage is his first and only

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Yet in America, so television conscious, the fact that he is a ptor in this neid of entertain- ment autemintically entities him to acclaim.

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ja

Knowing that i was to sc someone wher

highly thought of on his home ground, I look the trouble to prepare myself for my introduction to Mr Gobul by reading up about him before seeing his fim. Tho glowing tributes to his power to amuse filled me with anticipa - tion

Comedy having become obvious in recent years, it was pleasure to read that the screen's Tay comedian specialised in throwing away fines, in putting over his act with a deadpan face and in

Lho general, applying nofi pedal

T

ild's Insignificant 10 up- presarance, I discovered,

after Birds and the he does deliver his lines with a deteljnin Luce, relieved infrequently by a nervous, de- precating tle smile, and he does have the power of being amstag in a quiet, restrained way. But on the strength

The Birds and the Bees" don't think the term "great" ya applies to him.

Cheerful Film

of 1

His billing above David Nlyen YURDIS 10 me le bu

undeserved distinction. The English actor, os à likable card sharp, caris far more laughs. and two subsidiary funny men— Fred Clark and Reginald Gardiner are quite

enter-

as Gobel. I am talning pared to admit though, that humour is the meet

clusive of

reactions and what bores anu person may send another inter paroxysms of mirth.

Gobel

may well be an aquired taste.

but wallding Into ·បូ cupboard instead of a corridor, holding an absent minded conversation with an elderly woman who has replaced his girl friend at hiş side during a boat deck stroll and keeping a stake in his cabin are jokes too old for repotition. In spite of the disappoint- ment of finding Gobel not quite

New Films -At A Glance

The

Mn

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: Tom and Jerry cartoons, KING's and PRINCESS: Birds and the s": Comedy involving adventuress, her gambling father and her gullible boy Tylena. David Niven, Mlizi Gay- nor, George Gobel, NEW YORK and GBEAT WORLD “Mademoiselle A Frenchi Pialle? comedy. Brigitte Bar- dos, Mischa Azer QUEEN'S and ALHAM-

BRA: "The Flame and the Arrow": A swish- buckler, Burt Lancaster, Virgula MATU. ROXY and BBQADWAY: "Private Proste Bil- tish Army comedy. Bja Carraldeapl Dennis Richard Atten-

WSTOMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY:

"Forbidden

Planet, Adventure in mace. Walter Patreon, Anne Frabeit, Leslie Nielson,

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KING ME PRINCESS:

"The Bawilde Year: A western, Tony Curtin, Arthur Kondely, Miller. NEW YORK and GREAT

"Etranger!). WORLD: My Macdonald Carey," Påt. -Medina, Skip Homeler, The Feminine

comedy. Blinds i Leo, George Haker,?? niza Wynyard,ge "QUEEN" 184 CALHAM- BRA:- "Rock:Around-the Clock!! A ̈mamelonde

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The Froud western, Virginia MS

BY JANE ROBERTS

FORFFFFFF

This Week's Films-

In Pictures

Walter Pidgeon and friend Robby the Robot in "The Forbladen Planet", coming to the Hoover,

Mitzi Gaynor and George Gobel in a scene from "The Birds

Tony Curtis

makes

characteristic entrance "The Rawhide Years".

and the Bees",

ย

in

as anticipated, "The Birds and

Hitle 6lm about three con- fidence tricksters

proposta toast after toast to the assembled guests, deshing

with one

or two really good comedy lines going to Arthur Kennedy.

Good colourful entertainment.

Brigitte Again

"Mademoiselle

Pigalle

is a French comedy starring the Brigitte Bardot who was so appealing in "Doctor At Sea",

The familiar story of a father trying olive up to the "respectable" role he has cast himself in the eyes of his teen- nge daughter the theme. though in this cape the shady side of Mademolile Bardol's father's life is nothing more rữ prehensible than being the owner of e

a night club.

However, to hide the bal he goes to great trouble, getting volved with the poller and with underworld characters.

he ll forced to the tally

his cabaret to hide the girl.

Coy, kittenish Brigitte Bardot is a somewhat advanced school- girl and with an air of wide eyed innocence demolishes the singer's romance with a woman doctor, shocks his valet, plays poker with the valets friends

and in general causes a good

deal

of chats before the happy ending

The familiar face of Mischa Auer, who has persumably for- saken Hollywood, makes i wel- come reappearance.

Swashbuckler

"The

Flame and the Arrow" allows Burt Lan- caster to show athletic

off his to his

prowess heart's content. He was

once a circus acrobat and seems to have kept in trim despite the rigours of Holly. wood life.

In

on

Ule

1 commented earlier sustained popularity of Tony Curtis. Perhaps a lot to do with it is the fact that whatever bu dogs he

gues at whole- heartedly the circus film Trapeze" in which he appear's with Burt Lancaster and which we strall be seeing here satin, ha was conched by Lancaster to per- form all the risky tricks used by the older inua la hit original tet,

But

return to Burt Lancaster. His title in "The Flame and the Arrow" in Dardo the Arrow duc, presumably to his proficiency fying through 0 the air with the greatest of case! This swashbuckler takes place in medieval Italy which at the time was crawling with usurpers and insingente-sually nobody knew which

As was which Burt Lancaster is chief of a of insured- however, you'll be safe

his glass to the floor after each tioniste band

one and causing the others follow sust

to

Clark's face is a study chagrin, as he struggles to pear nonchalant in the face this bull's-eye blow ot pocket.

in

up

of

his

The tile sorg — a dust be- tween Mitzi Gaynor and Goorge Gobel is insignificant, buy her solo mimber La Paifelemme is much better. Although re- miniscent of Doris Day, Mitzch Gaynor has a charm of her own and it is pity that she has not been given mere dancing to do in "The Birds and the Bees".

Western

Tony Curtis has come a the Bees! is a cheerful, happy long way since his early days of popularity with the specialty is cheating at card teenage BTPUP. Dávid Niven is father, Mitzi Gaynor-vivacious

whose

in assuming that the legitimate rutor in power is the villain,

Fighting on castle steps, in dungeons and from castle walls

is the main ingredient of this picture, with Virginia Mayo standing by, looking suitably melting while she is waiting to be rescued.

Rock 'n Roll

Musicals featuring fam ous bands have to my mind been very lukewarm affaira on the musical side. Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Eddy Duchin have all had their bande paraded on the screen and the musical back- ground, though pleasant, has left no lasting impres sign.

Whether not Bill Haley's Comote will still be household words a your from today. In and pretty

It seemed then that although spite of the storm their rock is his daughter, and delight: he had the flashy good look the you" playing Bag growed ful Reginald Gardiner is “the

swagger and the bounce silable mains to be seen, but ther

never

be filend of the family the third for action roles, that there wire style could certainly

described as Jukewarm. accomplice. Goorge Gobel, far too many of his type in the

Rock Around the Clock" is wealthy,

fold for him to stand any chance gulilble,

retiring of staying the course.

hot,

de loud, Insidious and young man is, their prey and us

AnitelyTM fo jazz fans only. I they descend hungrily on him,' He has since proved this was fascinated by it and intend pity is the emotion around wrong and the varied roles he to see 14 second time, How can ho win against these has taken have afforded him the soasoned vultures?

experience he lacked

Before the end of the picture "The Rawhide Years' has a however, we've come to like fairly routing story gambling them all and naturally, in on the Miestopp river boots nocence has heatly and gently back in the late 19th century, turned the tables on sophistica girl running -n canoe

killing or two and a hero whoes

*

hot headodhem is, the principal

Fred Clark's big scene le one cause of his attraction the

more

The actors In It, don't matter very much though: what they do iambooth enough. You'll go to see this if you be the jungly beat of rook onda roll Jazz combination of the old ¡lve, with a bit of rusca cinco In

and a hint of spational Hoodlum At Heart

Skip Homeler, who has been specialising in killor, reform tranger At My roles, fa given a chance to

of the beat. David Niven and ble But Tony Curt!" bingo nin Mitzi Gaynor are posing an extra little something to the Uro mambura of the French picture that fume it into

Intocracy, Fred Clark Is

than a run of the mill period Gobel's father, and in

of being a polf-made "man," self

humble He has bom giyen en she Conscious

Jou obout his origini. Uršuro of Aimself with supporting actor, a ruumi

Bupporodly

distinguished mata, and be and Aftir Door", visitors, he has orderet the most, nedy...... make aghapter · partner. expensive crystal to be brouchi ahip, alternately out, for the big dinner party,

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So Gay and So Much Fun as it can only happen in Paris! Exquisite Brigitte Bardot of "Doctor At Sea" fame la at it again!

MADEMOISELLE PIGALLE

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