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5 SHOWS TOMORROW "THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH" EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 12.20 P.M.

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A Little

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Can Be A

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S

THE MAN WHO

Rod Book

DORIS

JAMES STEWART DAY

KNEW TOO MUCH

by ALPHED INTCHCOCK By my JOHN MICHAEL MAYES

Bery by Charles Danner) and ( in Myrthern Lig

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FIRST MATINEE

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LONG LANE

1st Chinese Picture to Win An International Award,

The Picture That's Thumed on

A Corrupt Chinese Saying.

"THE

wor

LONG LANE", which

oward the

the best for screenplay in tho recent 3rd Annual Film Festival of Southeast Asia, will open in the Hoover and Liberty Theatres at the end of this month.

It will be shown with English aub-titles.

It is a high-tension drama themed on the age-old, but now

The Management,

The Asia Pictures Lid.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1950.

FILMS

Wedding Party

Bette Davis has called herself 24 "trapaference artist" as opposed to those American screen players who rely for their popu- larity on looks or personality alone.

She has gone on to explai that a "transference artist" is cub- ene who can completely inerg: hes own charpeler in that of the person she is playing 77ds allows a good example of the

species at indefinite lifetime before the cameras, Instead of the Beeting Tow yours possible to those who rely solely on ap-

It

1 Wedding Party” she has certainly proved her point. There 10 hide to attempt

maxe

her vice-like Correls J spreading figure she has even allowed the harnteed housewift- Hoss of the rule to extend

10

1 Bing clothes und unflater- it photography of her plump profile

is humouF'OLIN.

if you of abarnet

chon't

Chough

Current & Coment

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films-

In Pictures

065 238

Krurst Borgnine discusses the experts attendant on getting

a daughter married in "Wedding Party"

The Icture patheti, haurly.

skin! glunur. very likable.

FL

orctiesury ab

and Frost Borgin

The battle AVITAge Davis are

is on and New

York's wedhi stag bill moun!, couple living Bronx ite in is baxa driver, she the tension, until the dors her bed to make his week- couple...the bride and

COVET ly wage stretch 10

the are completely engulfed, necessites of Hic. The daughter Tiny's a simple solution that

a race child who has, opinion comes with the last reel and a sut 14 Heldes, raised the social statun txis.cally nice bank of prople are chance

WaTnly the family by falling in love with a schoolmaster.

So far so good. Dissension in the family arises when daughter and boy frimi decide that they Con't want to wait any longer 1 the longed-for day, and will get mauried the very nex! Tucs- Pay with no fuss, he fellis nid

Immediate family only the

Litera

Bette Davis's Picture

fstplk'tea༥l= {485t!?7%° Father pense, mother is dubious what will the neighbours suv?. Uncle Jack Condon, looking like

prechaun ( a mischievous

Comes

naturally

at cachi Wat

anille woking Troin re audience.

1

--

Denis Price gots convincingly

to seed or the dissoluto pariner of Carey,, but the main attrae- tion of "Por: Afrique" is Pler Angeli.

Delightful

Josephine and Men

I recommend this to anyonɑ with sense of the ridiculous, adm/mtion for Glynis Jolms und 4 penchant for British comedy,

It is a delightful Glm.

Uncle Charles la a debonair gratleman of Independent meaIA, elenally in fight from predatory females who think they are the Biswer Lo his collbate atoes. "Josephine and Mon" it his story, as reinted to the barman of the Parasite's Club. The Buchanan's Jack receiver

Maddera confidences Victor one of the best of the ening character petors on the British BCTEN,

Josephine's trouble ไส that she is a paradox. A deceptive inixture of innocence and gulie, frailty and Independence, the la when we first meet her, engaged

up and

wealthy, worldly Donald

Sinden. Taken to visit his pea- Bier author friend Peter Finch, Josephine's kender heart ls Im- mediately torn by his uncared- Hank

for as the of young

the comical appearance, Is Careluily

stale af chaos in his rooms and so does broken to her by her worried yet

centiul still incredulus husband is vera his obvious need of her minia-

trations. groom well done.

focet fa.sy 1J!。. though Jooking

Not a little dra. well through- els conedsicutly out the fen She is given fin

10 de than James Stewart, but as he the response pawn in the game of polities that

are beh'nd the assasshintion de k dinapphix. his

bysunder e 10

ather,

1

lu

WAN

understandable.

Bro sinister perfor-

from Bernard Miles Hrendit de Banzie und 1

long afterwards there are hilarious scenes of wedding presents being returned, par- ents bring soothed and a com- pietely

unruffed

Josephine marrying friend Finch,

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We next set them patent dumestic bliss in a neal,

bright cottage. obviously well endowed with the world's goods and with the whole of their life revolving notend the hus- band's successful career 318 A

Even More Laughs

Enter agains

In effect. This is not on m

1 portant. pleline dealing

incident does with an isolated

lives of members of In the community

taxed who are

glad to see that there is no dealing with each day's Plu suggestion until almost the end blems"

FLA they prestat them of the picture that the Bille vive?.

But it does bring that boy's life is in real danget. excellent actress Bette Davis wou

would have made the plot har- before us once again in yet an- rowing. father that exeltion.

Donald Sinden, other "differen role, and it which would be is pity.

no longer the wealthy business- The clox cones in the Albeit mi He is on the run from keeps Ernest Borgnde befurs the cameras when he might Hall, where a drst performance the Police who seem to think have faded awuy of Arthur Benjualty's "Storm that his partner's defection is otherwise after his tremendous success as Cloud Cantata" is to be given thing

to do with him. Minty.

This piece of

of music, heavily Josephine is sunk. Here again Above alt it introduces a more charged with foreboding, omdatos is à male th search of her pity, muture Debbie Reynolds. Gume the signal for another murder help and understanding. She is

as the tension slowly asked in the pony-land-swinging hue and

when the cursetted evident that Peter Finch doesn't see why the ingenue and substituted

Bitebenek has nut Last his almost Whe the young retrese

cevicted

criminal Touch buging that heart-

should interfere with his now aside mere cuteness for a brav

in-the-mouth seeing into every comfortable routine. Ary it acting.

member of the auriience,

W.Bun Hartnell, another my favourite character actor sxps around the cottage with Sealand Yard-like thorsaghness and it looks as though Sinden is for gul, wth Peter Fuch turn kasing his wife to the 749 more eligible criminal.

Barry Filzgerald) reuches for his pipe, arter pares for the storm

pparea The neighbours, us contident- is predicted, sagt neconding to the standards

tuls

*

0

tussing

Hitchcock Film

world over and mother is very SAKITT digging lucr

in Daughter Debbie Reynolds

a wedding she going to have can look back on all her life.

flowers, with champagne, enormous wedding cake white sai hetograph album. Much

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and a

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWINC

The Man Who Knew Too

mounts

15

14

A Hotch-Potch

Port Afrique

This is a hotch potch of In case the presence of murder, apparent betrayal, Doris Day in this picture theme etc. In which Italian leads you to suppose,

born Pier Angeli appears as spite of the title, that it is a a Spanish girl and sings musical, let me diabuse for the first time you of the iden at the out-

Hot.

It is in fact

16

in

re-make by Alfred Itchcock of his 1934 thriller of the same name, The original stars by the way were three bright ones in British ple- tures at that time

Leslie

screen.

SUCH

011 the

from the

unly 17) roles which call for the pathelle, big eyed, wolf-like approach to attracting the opposite sex, Miss Angel now blossoms forth in i clinging, Spanish inspired gown and in her songs there is no Banks. Edna Besi unct Nove

hint of the kind of girl who Pilbeam -- all

protection three of whom nudes HOOVER and LIBERTY:

"Wedding Party":

have now vaskshed from the wolves.

However, 45 few Phil Carey is the hero. Hard- domestic crisis sensibly

serven scene. solved by

to remember ly man enough for the new Bette

people will be able Davia

the earlier in, there is little stuctive Pier Angel I would Ernest Borgnine

Dobble point in comparing the present have felt, but hero he is, never-

work

The warrior's home- with its predecessor. and Barry

Cheless, As a thriller, The Man Who coming from The War (he is Knew Too Much" accomplishes an American Army pilot The PRINCESS:

Its purpose without being too turning to his home and busi- "The Man Who Клен

obvious, except perhaps in us ness in Morocco) is Much": Altrod Hitchcock's thriller

and

with help from

Reynolds Fitzgerald.

KING'S

Too

and

a new look by James Stewart and Doris Day, QUEEN'S and

BRA:

ROXY

Melodrama

ntr

ALHAM- "Port

Afrique in Morocco. and BROADWAY: The The

King and I":

Version

the of musical. Broadway Deborah Kerr, Brynner, Rita Moreno.

Yul

COMING

ROOVER, and LIBERTY: "Gaby" A Franco American love affair ia Loudon, 1044. Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Sir Codrio Hardwicke, KING'S and PRINCESS:

The Way Onl": Drama. Gene Nelson, Mona Free- man.

Creature ***The Walke Among Up Horror film. Jen Morrow.

and

ALHAM- "Odbore": Wi

QUEEN'S

BRA:

bersis and

final scenes,

cerris

ал

Plør

He finds his wife diehardly gay. his dis- As the title suggests, it con illusioned partner neglecting the

Innocent bystander business

cir- odd stories and who by accidentally learning too culating about his wife's acil-

her death. much about the criminal inten- vities before

plece in the lig-aw tions of a third party becomes Angell's virtually involved in activities of

puzzle is un enigma to every- for reaching consequences,

one except those who know that James Stewart is this man. with only one love interest, it

his He.

wile and

young must work out before The End. son re on holiday in Mar- Nice, rotund James Hayter is in "Port Af- merely rotund rakesh as the story opens. As

rather

change from his successful proc- que",

He

д makes

tice as a doctor they have come comic-strip villain and I prefer

to absorb the local colour and him In sympathetic

do all the things that tourists

nit

usually do. This gives Altred

Hichcock

plenty of opportunity

to place us aboard his magle carpet and although I have to Marrakesh, he never been seems to have hit the exact note that would strike any tourist.

Son Kidnapped

Fo exploita the contrast

the between

ancient and the modern, lingers on the ridiculous

things visitors on holiday buy and ably convinces us

la

is

Kebya. Rhosch Fleming,

Brusio ario Lang, Mario Mexico,

Barila Fontaine Joan Montiel, Vincent Price. ROXY and BROADWAY: and Man":

Josephine Briti

recommenga C

Johns,

Peter

Donald

Finch,

Sinden, Jack

Buchanan, Pacifio Destiny"

on

Bir Artzenta besedi

"Grimble's book A Fauna of islanda". Denholm Elliott, Hamn Stephan, Pie Angell, Phil Carey, **) Dennis Price:

a place where

that

this

the sudden

death by knife of a Frenchman

disguised as an Arab would

of

na normal to an inhabitant as it

is shocking to an American ne customed to read of these things only in his Sunday newspaper. Going to the help of the dying man, Dr Stewart has a cryptic message delivered to him, that Although superficially uni intelligibly, assumes Important. proportions when it is made to him, by the kidnapping of his young son, that it is not to be pared on to the authorl- Herbeliner French, or later on In London, whare ho has gone on a slender cluo, British,

Dorm 'Dayw controlled healuerdas,

parts.

of

in

The talented Boulting Brothers made this film, and while being lighter in subject than their Pivate's Progress" come more often,

the laughs

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