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KING'S A PRINCESS

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SHOWING TO-DAY

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The only way sho could win back ber daughter's love..... was in the arms of the man who had

shamed her!

"Never Say Goodbye

.......TECHNICOLOR

A Universal International Picture starring

ROCK HUDSON • Miss CORNELL BORCHERS - GEORGE SANDERS

From the Play "Cona Prama Meglio di Prama” by Luigi Pwandelo

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S at 11.15 a.m.

WALT DISNEY

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m.

RKO RADIO

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Varioty Programme

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD

Causeway Bay. Tel. 78721, 70155

SHOWING

Kowloon, Tel. 53500 w

TO-DAY

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

"SPRING BLOSSOMS REVUE"

Starring Chang Ye Hon

•

Li Ying

In Eastman Colour

A Chinese Picturo in Mandarin Dialogue

SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M.

NEW YORK: "THE RIVER OF NO RETURN" GREAT WORLD: "THE ROBE"

ROXY & BROADWAY

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

79th Century - Fac DEESTO'S

JAMES MASON

BARBARA RUSH

Color by DI LUXE

Bigger than Life

CINEMASCOPE

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: At 12.00 Noon 20th Century-Fox presents In CinemaScope & Color "DEMETRIUS AND THE

GLADIATORS” Starring: Victor Maturo

Susan Hayward Roduced Admission →→ $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts.

BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m. M-G-M presents TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At 12.30 p.m. In CinemaScape & Color "HELL AND HIGH WATER" Starring: Richard Widmark At Reduced Prices

CAPITOL RITZ

Special Times: AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

TYRONE POWER

KIM NOVAK

THE

EDDY

DUCHIN

STORY

REK THOMPSON - JAMES WHITMORE

DE

HERRERO STRUDWICH

LA VICTORIA SHAW ÖNEMABROMË I MAI PRORASOAR

Sunday Morning Show Af 12.30 p.m. Burt Lancaster in "THE KENTUCKIAN" In CinemaScope

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NO.104

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

The Lone Ranger

ON THE

BIG, WIDE MOTION PICTURE

SCREEN!

ALL NEW! IN WARNERCOLOR!

WARNER

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ELATION MOORE - HAT SAVERIGENS - FREKV

To-morrow Morning Show "KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES"

H. K. S. P. C.

Nende financial, aupport for the take of poor chlidren

Pleane

address communica tions:-Secretary, Hongkong

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1956.

FILMS

Bhowani Junction:

bu

The M-G-M Hon's roar is proving to no empty sound signifying a merely petulant snarl at competi- tors' products. The present film showing at the Hoover and Liberty theatres is do- ing extremely well, and the next two scheduled — 8 western and the story of a man's struggle against the drug habit are each ex- cellent in their different

ways.

With many people vigiling the cinema nel more than once # wook the lion may feel justifiably, proud that he has swallowed 1110st of this week'a customers and looks like doing the same in the coming three."

If

not yet NOGTA yu have "Bhowal Junction" I strongly tivize a visit.

A Weepie

Never Say Goodbye:

The pleasant young man Rock Hudson has once again. been cast in a weepie - this time with German, Cornell Borchors instead of Ameri can, Jane Wyman.

Pour Mi Burchers herself has had rather an unhappy time

She ber short career in Alms contact w was offered a

WOTK

for an American Alm company on the strength of the harrowing 141 performanc sho

as the Suve mother of an adopted child. nghting to keep it from its real mother. Premably the com- be by thenght they would playing safe by putting her into something along the same lines.

Miss Borchers has the part of

a Viennese cafe entertainer who falls in love with an American Army Burgoon. The situation is complicated for Vienna ut e thane, is zoned and her father lives ko the Soviet-controlled

area. They any married in spite of the obstacles, however, in Budson leaves the Army for civilian practice in Vienna George Sunviers, an artist, look. sentimentally , wishing thum happinces but rather dis-

concurlingly tehling Miss Burchers at her wedding recep- tion he will always love her.

the young Money is tight in doctor's home-although some- body must have forgotten to Üle-and tell the set designer Miss Borchers. without felling her husband, supplements the "disappearing family income by on odd afternoons In a chauffeur driven car,

Graceful Plunge

On discovering this, the lus- band immediately jumps to the conclusion that his wife is be ing unfaithful

him End storms out taking the baby with him.

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All this is told in fashback. the main body of the picture taking place In the preneni when Rock Hudson, που successful doctor in America,.

wife is faced with a

returned from the grave and a ninc- year-old daughter to disabuse

of the idea that her mother is dead.

The daughter

is played. somewhat brattkaly by Shelley Fabaress

A less spankable child would

the havo mado

more moving.

story much

Current & Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films-

In Pictures

James Mason, under the influence of drugs, in

a tense scene with his wife, Barbara Rush, in the film "Bigger Than Life".

A scene from "Never Say Goodbye" starring

Cornell Borchers and Rock Hudson.

Bill Travers and Ava Gardner in a dramatic

scene in "Bhowani Junction.”

In the French version, show~ The ending is more CONYCD- out of scents behaving in the bog at the Queen's and Al- tional than usual with French screen's

George Sanders drifts in and

A

less romantic And

more

With Danielle Darrieux are

best "perfect gentle- hambra, the lover is a very films and I would have preferred man" fashion. Rock Hudson is different type. The son of a Just Rock Hudson kindly, un- country blacksmith, he is yel of realistic solution. burried, pleasantly immation for freen rough disposition and outlook and

many while probably

the dis- not possessing women's idea of the perfect tinguished oncestry of his Loo Gena os her husband and male,

mistress has a kindness of heart Erno Crian as the lover. Cornell Borchers' first plunge. that is lacking in her worldly Into the warmed, technicoloured husband. waters surrounding sentimental Acreen love graceful.

No

stories

is fairty

Nuither is Danielle Darrieux the bored thrill-seeker of the

One Too Many

book, but a devoted nurse to Bigger Than Life: has been her husband, wounded during great strain placed on her noting ability, the the war and now confined to a

It would camera has been trained on her wheelchair.

seem, from articles written about his very lovely, expressive face,

Mason,

rather than on her less remark» She turns a dead car to the private life, that James able, though trim figure and her muggestions of her sister Hida

while being un- two lending mon support her that things being as they d doubtedly a clever fellow, with the air of finding it with her husband Aho should

take a lover and fights against is a bit of an exhibitionist. picasant to do so.

the realisation. that a certain There is no doubt whatever A likablo fim with the issue

Wie hurdace always present in me about his scene stealing in nover in doubt

husband's chozaofer, has become moment.

taala occentuated by his infirmity. pictures.

French Version

Lady Chatterley's Lover:

I can't remember very much about the original "Lady Chatterley's Love

Many things happen to make It is not meanly done. Except life difeult for her, and she is in the case of "A Star Is Born when be temporarily trans beginning to sink into despair gamekooper when the now

ferred the xcomva bo Judy Garland, philosophy.

It is simply that ho stradually raises her from ner takes good care that in him apathy and she begins to feel pictance his is the central part that life is worth living after one of the other actors must

Hit

Society for the Protection by D. H. Lawrence, except. This hoppy state cannot coti- of Children. PO Box 50s that Lady Chatterley took time indefallsly howevka

ds her lover her husband's an attachment grows betweUCH

the two that larar

dat Zongkong.

Collection : Căniri, je nisirtualon,

eventually tired of her,

be as courlion to his king.

In

could't have Lalled "The part je made for him rig

is: a cheerful.

ginating th

bus a vocation for teaching and Wood and respected by hi colleagues, his wife and his son,

He has

u secret however. Sudden attacks of pain tell him that he has some serious illnes and

the realisation that if it proved fatal his adored wife and son would be left deditute foroy him

to aggravato his condition by laking work.

on extra

It oma incomprehensible to me that he should not conádo in his wife about his physical condition or

his extra work-

sho is a perfectly balanced young woman, unlikely to go to pleces when told of possible mlafortune and her subsequent behaviour show that she is capablo of above average resistance. However, he docan't, and his inevitable collapse coIES as a shock to her.

Terrifying Climax

has

When Mason's Utness boen diagnosed, he is told that for the rest of his life ho will have to take the drug cortisone if he is to live. Ho is solemnly warned of the ill-effects of not adhoring

strielly to the prescribed dosage and is asked to report any untoward reaction such as depression or clation.

From here it is completely Mason's aim and he seizes the soone.

From the one extra pill taken to combat the depression Induced by the drug, he pro- gresses to tying and cheating to obtain more and more,

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his

At first delighted that he has

completely recovered health and fondly amused at his brash self-confidence,

bis wife

later begins to realise that ali is not well and the scene towards the end of the film, when Mason sces himself as God and is

about

to kill their son with a pair of selenors is a terrifying climax

The tension at the end, walle Mason's family and the doctors whit

to 800 whether he will come out of his coma sane or Incurably mad is well sustained but the trite ending itself steme to ba a concession to the box office.

This is a good film and seldom have I seen mental suffering >

the

Betoon.

comprehensibly transferred ไป

The deep T happiness of the realises that the drug is dragging

בטחת

09 ho

him deeper and deeper into grip and the agony of not being able to communicate his

misery

to anyone is most movingly por trayed by Mason

From both Barbara Rush, as his wife, and Christopher Olsen, playing his son, he gets intelli- gent support.

wouldn't have thought Barbara Rush capable i it-she obviously got sympathe

le help from producer James Mason

*

New

Films

-At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY:

"Bhowani Junction":

Polfies and romanes in what is now

Ava Gardner,

Pakistan.

Stewart

Granger, Bilt Tryczn KING'S and PRINCESS:

Never Bay

Goodbye":

Romance, tears and re unions la Hudson. Cornell Borchers, Hock Hudson, George Bandera,

QUEEN'S and ALHAM

BRA: "Lady Chatterley's Lover': A combustibio French

version. Dan- ukelle Darrieux, Leo Goan, Erno Criss ROXY and BROADWAY:

Bigger Than Life

James Mason verras the drug

Cortisone. With Barbara Bush and Wal-

Di Mithai.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: Had "Tribute To “A Man: A Western, James Pappas, Cagney, Irens

Don Dubbhus. The Man With The Golden Arm": Frank Blostra as a drug sadkor, with Kim Novak and Kitanor Parker. KING 8 and PRINCESS:

*IMTY Crockett: Western Fow Parker, Buddy Ebeen

A

NEW YORK and GREAT "Caroline WORLD:

Cherie French colume ploce, Martine Carol. QUEEN'S and ALHAM-

"The Lort

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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

** 80, 1.15, 720 & 9.36 p.9.

230 A 9072224131.

SHOWING TO-DAY

DANIELLE DARRIEUX LEO GENN

COLUMBIA PALAPINAN

3 34 LAWRENGLA

"LADY.

CHATTERLEY'S LOVER"

WATCH FOR IT !!

The Bank Organisation presenta a Michael Betoon. Pretvation

Scotland Yord from the inside

Made at

Eating Studima

JACK HAWKINS

THE LONG ARM

ERNO CRISA

2016 AN, 11*

TOMORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M.

QUEEN'S

Alfred Hitchcock's "DIAL M FOR

MURDER"

Crace Kolly

Ray Milland

Technicolor

ALHAMBRA

Columbia's Tochnicolor

VALENTINO

Eleanor Parker

— AT REDUCED PRICES

Anthony Doxtor

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M-GM, DRAMA AFLAME WITH LOVE AND REVOLTI

AVA GARDNER

STEWART GRANGER BHOWANI JUNCTION

CINEMASCOPE

WITH PERSPECTA STEREOPHONIC SOUND

SUNDAY MATINEE

HOOVER 11.30 a.m.

"THE PRISONER OF ZENDA"

: REDUCED ADMISSION

LIBERTY 12.00 noon

TOM & JERRY CARTOONS

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30—5.30—7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

20th Century Fox presents a maltojniceds in

Mystery and Deliction,

VAN JOHNSON-VERA MILES

23 Paces to Baker Street

CECIL PARKER

HENRY EPHRON

HENRY HATHAWAY

NIGEL BALCHIN CINEMASCOPE

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ORIENTAL

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