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KING'S 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW “FRANCIS IN THE NAVY”

EXTRA MORNING SHOW AT 12,20 P.M.

KING'S À PRINCESS

220A DIN 2N

OPENS TO-DAY

Francis in the Navy

DONALD O'CONNOR --MARTHA HYER

→ RICHARD ERDMAN - JIM, BACKUS - MYRNA HANSEN

Fegarels 14 AKING MULTI

A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S at 11.15 a.m.

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. "TOM & JERRY” M-G-M TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

PRINCESS

TO MORROW Extra Show at 12.10 p.m. Vikas Productions present a Super Indian Film "TALWAR ka DHANI"

Starring Nadira — Manhar Desai -- Anwar Shammi Sulochana Kammo & Maruti

Music by Chitra Gupta

Rogular Admission Prices

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD'.

Causeway Bay, Tel. 78721, 78155

Kowloon, Tel. 53500

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

A Great Love, A Tragedy that You'll Remember Forever!

"MADAM BUTTERFLY"

Starring LI LI-HWA

A Chinese Picture in Mandarin Dialogue.

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SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M.

"KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES"

"HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE"

NEW YORK: GREAT WORLD:

"THE

LONG LANE"

FIRST

CHINESE PICTURE

TO WIN AN

INTERNATIONAL

AWARD.

It's Themed On A Corrupt Chinese Saying.

Our

MA

We take pleasure in announcing that award-winning picture "The Log Lane" now heen booked in two rat-run theatres. The Hoover and the Liberty, for a day-to-day soul- taneons fail week-end run in Hongkong and Kowloon, towards the end of October.

"The Long Lane" was acetalmod as the best Chinese pleture by international critics and was given the award for the best screenplay at the Fecopt 3rd Annual Film Festival of southeast Asia.

The story is themed on the age-old, but now considered corrupt Chinese saying: TheID are three ways to be undiial; the worst is not have a son. This saying actually Ethern the concubinage system.

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English sub-tilles are ruper-imposed on the picture so that our foreign friends could us and understand the kind of tragedy that rosalis from the saying.

The Management.

The Asla Pictures Limited.

- THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1956.

FILMSI

Cinemageers may be foel- ing justifiably cheated this week-end.

Instead of the usual five first run films on show there are four only and of these one has Already conked up most of the

old faithfuls who make it point to 100 every new flam during this drei few days run,

This leaves one outstanding? new pleture and two “also rans".

May Top The List

The Man With The Golden Arm:

There is no doubt about the importance of "The Man With The Golden Arm”.

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its significane has like the wall the fact that it cancer The soul and body Te Aroying

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half taking drugs, in spite Le aris vrtisiting campagn Brat manks the subject The

1111 rolling podrat. This deserves to sugerect for

by

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virty or the ability of cuel member of the cust, thus from any Juri EXPOSUR ut the underworki

The dinogue is megligible. In fact alam. everyone

The

film Valka, as though verbs were created to be murdered unct sptreh un evil to bu andelged

J when strrugen und grunts

are not sufficient,

扎 mist have (051

ne" hing, in terms of cinema dol-

tors, to make, The backgrounet

is New Yurk where the seentry ih interior pote are

PODITE mogul would

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fres. firth-grad mrvie

What

probably

ไปป for from the small chunge In his pocket and then is not the expense of colour la

sur-

take into caderation.

And it would not prie me to dost myself during the last

weeks of December The Man With The Golden Ann" at sh: top

puttin

the list of ten best flins of the

your

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It 27 difficult tu remain unaffected by "The Man With The Golden Arm" und perhaps It was for this reason that one or two laughs in laughs tra Inappropriate plocos crept in. Possibly The gigglers were Anding that their nervous ten- sion was relieved in this way.

Certainly the laughs could not have been' occasioned by the action in front of thean, Frank Sinatra's agazined writhings when at the height of his unsatisfied craving for another shot of dope may be embarrass- Ing, but they are at

no time anting

Deep Understanding

He is just back from a com- bined gaol term and druk addiction curo at the beginning of the film, but although his step Is

light and his manner the happy he walks through streets of lower class New York The atmosphere seems to close in on lám, sucking away his newly acquired confidene and making his brash talk sound liko the scared clucking of a frightener

hen.

The background musle 15 blaring jazz and tho insistent bass notes of a piano tako on a threatening tono s he comed closer and cluster to his old omorni hounts and the sleazy companionI ot his pro-gaoi

days.

Although most of the charac- tems are a little averdrawn, they are not unreal or perhaps it is from

that Runyon's people "Guys and Dolls' have condi- tioned y into understanding them. Their acceptare of the more sordid asports of life is terrifying. The dope ped- dler, the racketeer, the bribable

-Richard III-

I have news of the long awalted "Rh 'hard 111", pre- viewed a month or sú ago, the It will,bo shinon as Queen's and Alhambra cinemas towards the end of the year and audiences will find it Was well worth waiting for,

In order to serve the large crowd at our

MAMMOTH CLEARANCE SALE

We shall remain oper: as usual Tomorrow.SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7th 1956

From 10a.m. to

p.m.

see, tomorrow's. Sunday Post Herald for further detalled particulars

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BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films-

•

In Pictures

A scene from "Jeatphine and Men"

Glynis Johns in "Josephine and Men"

Frank Sinatra in "The Man With The Golden Arm”

Pier Angeli and Phil Carey in a scene from

"Port 'Afrique”.

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of solving themselves and fading quietly away into the routine that has taken the place of the grand passions of youth.

This is the theme of "There'a Always Tomorrow"-a very opt Title for the subjeci.

although

Fred MacMurray, quite a succcesful businessmati is less quailfled to cope with the problem of having a pretty with and busy children who

have come to accept him as the head of the household, Inking it for granted that Daddy by mature enough not to expect constant tangible proofs of his family's devotion to, pride in and depen- dence on his person.

self

Lake a lumbering elephant, Fred MacMurray nicks away at these little

jotts to his esteem and when, afer a series trritations Barbara of minor Stanwyck flunk back into his Ufo, he is ready to embark on an affaire with her.

Unfortunately it is difficult to work up much interest in the proceedings as in spite of the insufferable interference of the teen-age children who suspoet the worst, we know that thres Auch

nige people as the basically contented husband, the 171- jealous, happy

the freedom loving Cineer woman will never really seriously en- proach on each other's territory. Immature Person

Dark ra Sunwyck nd Joan Bennett have both

borpo the well

found und I to Imagine how tho former, as an

celent business

) care

difficult

woman obviously

capable 01 seeing through bombas!, and

the latter. atsetel, balnaced

of

and with a quier 'umour comuld have tolerated the Immature person played by MacMurray, for a mothent.

Pat Crowley comes

off best

in this pleture. Greeted with a fantore of publicity

when she was first launched us a new find, she has so far not done much to justify it. Simpering sweet. neas seemed to be her sole con-

tribution to the Hollywood beauty chorus with sometimes a dash of coy poriness to vary the performancë.

In "There's Always To- morrow

She seemis to have ahed these mannerisms and a rather tikablo personality is glimmering through, Let's hope she doesn't slip back among the nondescripts.

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER

and LIBERTY;

"The Мап WEL The Golden Arm" Frank Sinatra as a drug addict, With Kim Novak and Eleanor Parker, KING'S and PRINCESS:

"There's

To- Always DOFTOW": Fred Mac- Murray is the husband. Joan Bennett the wife and Barbara Stanwyck the understanding other woman. With Pat Crow-

QUEEN'S

And ALHAM- BRA: "Klas Tomorrow Goodbye": A gangster melodrama. James Car- ney, Barbara Faylon, Helena Carter,

BOXY and BROADWAY: The King and 1": The filer version of the Broedway musical. Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Elts Moreno.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY:

"Wedding

...:

domcsile crisis vonatbly solved by Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine with help from: Debbis Reynolds 104 Batty Fitzgerald.

KING'S 134 PRINCESS: "Franela kuthe Navy": „That unio' again. Donald O'Connor, Martha Hyer, Jln (Esckus, "The Man Who

know

- Too"Much": Alfred Hitchcock's Sur‍]]-- polles, the streetwalkers — ell could only have come from a

fer given a new look by mix and mingle with the com- deep understanding of the part paratively honest citizens of and if it does not brizig him a

James siewark and Dorly DAY. these dingy back streets with a nomination for an Oscar award

and ALAM- easy familiarity.

QUEEN'S I shall be most surprised. The picture also reflects credit for BRA: "Port Afrique": Walting at home for hún is imaginative, direction on Otto Melodrams in Moropoo Sinatra'a neurotic wife, Eleanor Preminger.

Fier, Angelf, Phil Carey, Dennis Frion, “Odongo":" Wild beasts ɛand sayagÜS In Kenya, Rbonds' Viem. ing, Macdonald Carey, ROXY and BROADWAY: "Josephine and Mon": comedy--highly Schnee, Denold : Boden,

Parker. On the ground floor

of the apartment house is Kim

Novak who tries hard to be a "An Also-ran

nice girl, with only

Sinatra is

alipe from grace Sinet

wendriched tween the

two and in spite of his repeated m- There's Always Tomorrow:

in- letence that he had boo

Cured

at the drug habit for good, it is Shattering as they may only too obvious that his tangled, 'geem to be at the time, life uncertainty and instabilly

ane og to and him back to it most crises in any family, *Brand - Dinantywa performance-they do not anoup..too effriesnews that frequently, have the habit

the

Denhom. Elliot,

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

*.10, 3,15, 7.20 to 0.36, p.m.

290 300 7.50 A NGO VIS

★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★

JAMES CAGNEY

"Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

F700 WARNER BROS.

TOMORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. QUEEN'S

Walt Disney's COLOR CARTOONS

ALHAMBRA Columbia's "VALLEY OF HEAD HUNTERS" Johnny Weissmuller

AT REDUCED PRICES

HOOVER

CAUSEWAY BAY TEL.72371

TO-DAY

FRANK

LIBERTY

KOWLOON TEL. 60148, 60246

AT 2.30, 5.20. 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

THE

SINATRA

MAN

ELEANOR

WITH

PARKER

THE

GOLDEN ARM

KIM

NOVAK

SUNDAY MATINEE HOOVER 11.30 a.m. "MOONFLEET" Stowart Granger

REDUCED ADMISSION

LIBERTY 12.00 noon "THE KING'S THIEF" Ann Blyth

RO X YƐ BROADWAY

2nd BIG WEEK

a

NOW SHOWING THE 10th DAY! Please note the special times: ROXY: A 2.00, 4.30, 7.00 & 9.30 p.m.

More

Move an rger huset

hop wer

knows

1

ROXY:

BROADWAY: At 2.15, 4.45, 7.10 & 9.40 p.m.

HILARY RODGERS & HARMERSTEM'S

The King and I

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To-morrow Morning Show At 11.30 a.m. 20th Century-Fox prosents in Cinemascopo & Color "THE EGYPTIAN” starring Edmund Purdom & Jean Simmons — At Reduced Admission,

BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performanco of "THE KING AND !" At 11.30 a.m.

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

AIR

CONDITIONED

SHOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY 2.30-5.307.30 & 9.30 2.30—5.20—7.30 & 9.30

A very fast gun-fighting film of the Western Front!

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SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 "BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK" || "HELL & HIGH WATER"

CAPITOL RITZ

PIRAL AL 2:30, 8:39, 7:30 & 9:30 pm.

A Torrent

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