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KING'S PRINCESS

CAT 230 515 7 20 À 939 POM

* 150 km 150 211 PONE

SHOWING TO-DAY

KING'S 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 12.20 P.M.

THE

THE LOVES OF THE BOLD... THE GLORY OF THE BRAVE!

AND

BOLD BRAVE

WANDFU

COREY

THE

SUPERSCOPE

DON

NICOLE

TAYLOR MAUREY

ADDED: BRAND NEW RKO CARTOON KING'S NICK OR TREAT" PRINCESS SIMPLE THING"

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'Sat 11.15 am,

Columba

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

L 3 S100CES

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m.

20th Century-Fox TECHNICOLOR CARTOON

PROGRAMME

Ar Reduend Admision: $1.00 & $1.50

200INCESS.

TOMORROW, SUNDAY

AT 12.00 NOON

Madan Citra's present a superb Indian picture

"BAGDAD KA CHOR"

THE THIEF OF BACDADI

Sharing CHITRA. DALJEET. Krishna KUMARI, Yashodhra KATJU and many others

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Produced by RAMKUMAR Directed by SHREERAM

At Regular Prices

ROX & BROADWAY

DOUBLE ENTERTAINMENT TO-DAY

Please note change of timos:

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

MISS PAI KWANG ON THE STAGE

Clamorous Actress-Producer-Director Pa Kwang

IN PERSON to enthrall you with her latest

Mandarin songs AT EVERY PERFORMANCE.

ON THE SCREEN

光白

TTBAR

AA 20

丹特鮮

Kuo Kwang Matlon Picture Co. prosents Miss Pal Kwang

FRESH PEONY

A Chinare Picture in Mandaria Dialogue

With Superimposed English Sub-titles

Produced & Directed by

Mies Pui Kwang

AT USUAL PRICES!

BOOK EARLY

TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: At 12.00 noon

20th Century-Fox presents

in CinemaScope & Color

"GARDEN OF EVIL"

Starring: Gary Coopor

Richard Widmark Reduced Admission - $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts.

BROADWAY; At 11,00 a.m. Walt Disney's

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1956.

FILMS

'Cha Cha Cha Boom'

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Of the four first-run films showing in Hongkong this week-end, two have to do with war. The third in frankly senplat and the fourth, "Fresh Peony", about which wrote inst week, is a Mandarin Chin esse in made by the very lovely Northern actress, Mes Pal Kwang.

"Cha Cha Cha Bogin" will All to those who like their Pakis hot,

an Luth American Every body in } se us to be having a good time hte Be soul-search- those problems to worry #bg who dislike in be hurrowed.

"The Rack'

"The Rack" is completely different and as with "The Bold and the Brave" does a

lot of ferreting about in the minds of the main charac

10 fers, attempting

słow

what makes them behave as they do.

The former, like "The Calne Muuy,"

ARARAS

ים

44 81 place almost courtroom and Paul Newman, as the returned of t

Kozsa IN being You motimiled for apparent dk fee lon So the enemy

There fin Arling from everyone, with the posible exception of Walter Pidgeon, ::/ A Francis hows that she has Bot more than good louks recommenut her.

"Bold And The

Brave'

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Current & Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

“Cha Cha Cha Boom' Dancers

David Niven stars as intrepid traveller Pleas Fogg.

The celebrated Mexican

hls plays comedian Cantinas mans.rvant, Passepartout,

Was a little disappointed with Wendell Corey In "The Bold and the Brave" but have

Co-stars are Shirly MüçLaine, nothing but praise for Mickey Rooney. He gives the best per est non exolie Hindu princess, formance

Robert Newton, A dim- have ever seen from und and the Alm is worth willed spector from Scotland golug to for this ugly, clover Yurd. lalle man alone. Hilk card game is hilarious.

'Fresh Peony'

"Fresh Peony" is one of those somewhat involves Chinese stories about love, loyalty and deception, that

Producer Michael Told Almed the movie in his giant-screen process, Todd-no and Eastman Colour, un location 19 eight different countries.

whiz through Spain and Stam, As Fogg and his manservant travelling by roll, slap, balloon and elephant, amused to spot dozens of inter- nationally

you

will

be

depend on a mass of detail sharp, brief "cuneo" roles.

famed players งา

to retain the interest.

Miss Pol every

Kwang deserves

sueccas in this almost Joan Crawford's

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS-wornat venture and Chinese

At 12.30 p.m. 20th Century-Fox presents "NIGHT AND THE CITY" Starring Richard Widmark At Reduced Prices

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

AIR CONDITIONED ·

Owing to longth of film, please note change of times. SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.15-4.45-7.10 & 9.40 P.M. A film that is acclaimed as Entertainmont Perfection!

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S

The King and

IN THE COMPLITS DRANDEUR OF

CINEMASCOPE 55

COLOR by DELADE

PEVTyr-Port varig

DEBORAH KERR : YUL BRYNNER EG

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30

ORIENTAL: Marilyn Monroe in. "NIAGARA" MAJESTIC: "TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE"

DAVY, DAVY CROCKETT KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER!

Attention, Youngsters! Save Your Money for a

REAL FOX FUR DAVY CROCKETT HÅT. Watch for further announcements of date and place of sale Shipment on S/S President Wilson

and foreigners alike will tind the pleure interesting. 11 Is not us polished as its English and American counterparts, bul It must bo remembered that this is Miss Pai Kwang's first step Into the producing and directing fold.

Around The World In 80 Days

"Around the World in 80 Days" is N spectacular movie inspired by Jules Verne's classic adventure story about an Englishman who races around the globe -the year is 1872-simply to win a bet!

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

ALHAM- QUEEN'S and

BRA: "Cha Cha Cha Boom": From the same #lable as "Rock Around the Clock". Perez Prado and Orchestra, listen Grayco.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Tho Bold and the Bravo": A coward, a bully and a elown

Kaly Taylor

Wendell Corry, Don

Mickey Roos67, Nicole Manroy. HOOVER and LIBERTY! "The Rack"; : The, oauri martist of a brainwashed American soldier, Paul' Newman, Wendell Corey,

Walter Pidgeon, Edmona O'Brien, Anna); Lee Marvin

BROADWAT and

darin: picture, with) Euge Halmub tlfen? In which MURE: FAÍ KWangsatáry,;

ROXY

Selections

the fact that it is so huge that the individual scene never has time to develop emotional horse-power,

In

full

the circumstancos Dua is unavoidable. Even a picture an good as this and I consider it one of the best intelligent spec. facles ever attempted could no bearably last for five hours ut more.

Notes And News

For Film-Goers

Lollobrigidn

co-stars

~~ Gino

with Anthony Quinn in "The finnohback of

Dame" Notre which the Rank Organisation is to distribute throughout Britain anci the Cominoowvalla.

cluding Canada and Malayn. Completed in Paris recently, the im version of Victor Hugo's classic is in colour and is now

Jeun Delannoy b. ing edited. directed for producers Robert and Raymond Hakim. It was made in English by Parts Film Productions at the same studio

#s "Trapeze.”

Flora Robson ashi to be lock- the train that takes her dully down to Pinewood Studios from London, "It helps my Canadian azzent,” she

says. Confusing? No. At Pinewood she is co-starring with Michael Craig, Beita St John and William Sylvester i the Rank ganisation's "High Tide Noon," the story of which is set Nova Scotia, Flora likes to repeat her lines aloud and on the 40-minute run to Pune- wool she learns her part for the day's filming. In privacy.

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working out that any summary

what it is about must ruu In his biggest im brenk

and still re- yol- Into many pages

Pinewood's "Tiger in main an absurd over-simplifica- iho

Tony Smoke" — hitsky Hon.

Wright plays a scene which runa five mimates and gives Almost everything In the him 185 lines of, dialogue. Cast range of human experience is a Jack Havoc, kang boss

and covered from the heart-search- killer, he nimed the scene after tugs of a young girl in love to only two rehearsals and three profound analysis of the taken." A London columnist nature of war; from the shallow into Tony and his pretty Now ran artifees of a decadent Court and flange, redhead Janoj

Munro. society to a study of a mat

Nice: found that on the opposed to violence and war at Riviera all you do la ask for a time when R was not fashion- Callaghun

when усти wan' able

to think In that way Tony Wright, because everyone People and ideas pour through remembers his Slim Callaghan this story in every conceivable roles in French films.

variety.

Honest

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The background to all this is the tremendous Napoleonic wars from Austerlitz to the retreat from Moscow.

To commit

to celluloid all that is contained in and implied by this novel would require a nim running not three and a half hours but three and a half months.

Up went

when eyebrows France's Brigitte Bardot walked into the restaurant at Pinewood on a surprise visit. She lunched with Dirk Bogarde, her co-star in the box-oflice record-breaker "Doctor at Sea," Earlier there woe a high-spirited reunion with producer Belty Box and dirce- lor Ralph Thomas,

June Laverick has recovered from an accident while filming Souvenir D'italle" on lotation In Italy. Doctors ordered a 10-

day rest after they stitched n and head

wound which June

The most that a film producer cun hope to do is to provide set of animated illustrations to the original: an honest fusteful pictorial summary that suffered when she fell while cun hint of the hugeness of the

original withoui

embrace It.

attempting to wolvin

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tricky scene in- her car. She co-stars in "Bouventr Ditalto" with Vittorio de Sica, Isabelle Corey

"War and Peace" magnificent attempt to achieve and Inge Schorner. this impossible tark.

11 is vart, beautiful, in perfect tante, admirably east and acted, overwhelming in its spectacular Impact, fully capable of holding the interest for three and a half hours, and at least cuts a few [ect down into the limitless bulk of Tolstoy,

Good And Bad

Joan Crawford, one of Here are the best period battle America's foremost film scenes-Austerlitz, Borodino, the from Moscow-ever players for a quarter cen- retreat tury, writing from

But here, too, is hor screened.

delicate study by Audrey Hep- homo in West Los Angeles, burn of a young woman matur selects these plays as the ing through heartbreak from pieces that have made the adolescence to womanhood; and

a subile

Henry greatest impression upon

analysia by an Intelligent man trying to maintain a balanced and altitude towards the war violence from which Instinctive. ly he shrinke..

her in all of her going experience:

1. Victoria Regina

Fair Lady 2. A

theatre

3. The King and I

Inherit the Wind South Pacific

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8.

Middle of the Night Poter Pan

Come Back, Little Shoba: 9. The Diary of Anne Frank. 10. Lady in the Dark

'War And Peace

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There is an effective Napolcon by Horbert Lom, and an even more effective portrait of the Russian commander Kutuzov by Oscar Homolka, mi

Milly Vitale, May Britt, Loa Seidl, Mel Ferrer and Vittorio Gassman all contribute to the huge mosaic of the good, and bad in 'Russia: that.” 'realsled

Napolcon,

for, of y photography - Jackers

Arst praise must go to the Tolstoy, like Shakespeare, director, King Vidor, for his Was a genius who know kingly, handling of the great everything about the com- crowd seenes, and to the direc plex nature of the human ait, for the superlative mind, spirit, and soul, copur, kerults he has achieve

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