1956-12-15 — Page 2

KING'S + PRINCESS

ARNING ADE 150 A 950 PM

SHOWING TO-DAY

HE RULED A SAVAGE WORLD...

WITH THE FURY OF HIS FISTS!

BRAVIZLAZ SHERMANORAL Azzus.

TONY

CURTIS

CROWLEY ERNEST HARİY" BORGNINE

JUNGLE

... PAUL KELLY-JIM BACKUS - LEIGH SNOWDEN - JOHN DAY - DANIS JANSSEN

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S at 11.15 a.m.

Walt Disney

-- RKO

present

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. Warner Bros. presents

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1956.

FILMS Cube Contag

An Average

Western

At Gunpoint:

"Ai Gunpoint” features Fred MacMurray as a gun- shy storekeeper in a town west. way out

Friendly Fred just doesn't believe in violence of any sort.

Acting instinctively one day however, he pulls the trigger on one of the West's most notorious Killer. und the retiring, law abiding citizen is transformed overnight Into a hero.

las valt does he try to explain that it was lucky shot and to be repeated. quite unlikely The townsfolk tako this for modesty and it only raises him their estern Whereas most

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ROXY & BROADWAY

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

When a sailor's felt holding the baby anything can happen--and it does!

JOHN

MILLS

RICHARD

ATTENBOROUGH

THE BABY AND

THE BATTLESHIP

EASTMAN COLOUR

A 20th Century-Fox Release

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Birds: The bees

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sept the unearned adulation and take care that the oppor tunlly of being found out doesn't occur, Fred MacMurray, wearing his customary alr of puzzled bewildermetit goes to great pains lo correct the false irepression.

good

is troubles are increased where the rest of the gang make St kinwn that they're out to fiquilate him. Those neighbours who were so full of praise here, now link away Dne by one, leaving only Walter Brennan by his side.

BY JANE ROBERTS

Harry Odell In Hollywood

A picture taken in Hollywood during Mr Harry Odell's nielt to the United States aboles Mr Odell, the well-known Hongkong Impresario, on set in the filming of "At Gunpoing".

From left to right, Walter Brennan, Dorothy Matone, Harry Odell, Fred MacMurray. The lad is Tommy Rettig.

which is just about to sail on an important exercise.

The baby is Amuggled airoard and the rest of the flm revolves round the efforts of John Mills and his messinates to keep the secret presence of the baby a

on those he command.

There's excellent contrast between the happy family life Nobody has bothered to keep Guides MacMurray's home-

Reliig

arc

the shunttons bellevable,

but

ment faree that should nake Tacome Tax Inspector

evra

i can thoroughly re- it us a good hearty

sante, an

luchter raber

(Dolhy Malone and person- that's unimportant, It's an out able young Tommy good as the wife and res

the pectively)--und

Jurki Ganger waiting to strike fron the outside, and a dust storm i Introduced at exactly the right moment to increase the tension. The colour is not good, however. and the images are fuzzy o Umes, especially in the scene at the graveside.

An average western.

An Out-And-Out

Farce

The Baby and the Battleship:

British Atras

to usually try indiente in their ties what the pletute is about. And if that omes a very obvious statement, think if some tiles that emuld equally well apply to a musical "Salome Biblical eple

Danced" for

or a

Where example.

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She

FONT

The Baby and the Battleship" the Roxy and Bronway deals with

exactly what it says. ATUET a night

drug in Naples, John Mit, as a very unable seaman indeed, is left with a baby, It's not his, but he, through force of circumstances, 24 Lo take care of it for a while. The snag is that he cue bark in his ship

Mi har Herdern is the cap- tain of the ship md his per. formance is even more hilarious than his trucible Resident Com- missione in "Pacifio Interlude" while

2 tuli ined it eit new BÊ

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#mething th: Ber-

the von right have stumbled on if hell ived long enough Even Roy by lkes

So do I

Everyone Looks

Embarrassed

The Square Jungle:

I don't know when "The made. Square Jungle" was but it does nothing to en- hamer the reputation of either Ernest Borgnine.

much

Fichard Attenborough, after or before his ompletely at home as the "wide lauded role in "Marty" nor Lay

shers once again that does it help Tony Curtis. comedy is his forto,

More About

Rock 'n Roll

Don't Knock The Rock:

ne

Cleverly cashing in on cuarent craze for Rock and Roll, fle Queen's and Alhambra are

Alan

Balon enother tim by Bill Haley's Comete with Freed once again featured.

There

at much new to be and about this type of music If you like it all go, and if you don't you'll be giving it wide berth

it's

3

The people who "kick" Rock and Roll contend that

not music of all, but who cares About that? It's gay, it's lively and at least it is pretentious Nebody Courried with 1. has

Everybody in the Alm looks embarrassed at whot they are called upon to do and even the boxing scenes

only 100 obviously faked,

Any middleweight boxer failing his arms about an does

deserve Tony Curtis would be knocked fat with the first

10

punch, and as a contender for the world ulte...well

With the spirit of Christmas descending on us, it would be nice to be able to say something good about "The Squaro Jungle" but frankly, I can think of nothing. Even the Curtis charr, that usually praises the lightest weight film a class or so, is per funetorily applied Crowley, whose future looked so bright a year or so ago, scens to have given up the struggle for stardom and settled for a steady job among the non-triers.

ind Pat

What's On Over Christmas

For those who

heartbroken

timours of

nt the

A

The man want to it Never having been a Marlin told Russia abounds.

chosen to shake Misa Hepburn'a faith in the fatherland is none plan their Christmas cinema and Lewis fan I way not visits ahead of time, here is

nctly

than the other

Bob Hope artd the schedule:-

although this picture led to

the ways between parting of

He hi write: Ben screenplay

rather and the star conducted publicly on the back page of an American newspaper, it's done more to bolster Hope's some- what lottering career than any of his recent pictures.

the

break-up in partnership, unil after having seen this picture. Now it secrns a great pity and one could wish that however much they may dislike each other oft screen they rould patch up their differences sufficiently to make a few more alms like "Parmers".

this

As might be expected, most of the pletures are light in charac- ter, with only the Metropole and Star Theatres, in keeping with the dignity expreted at the launching of a new policy, going in for a "berry

The Hoover on

and Liberty are

The Queen's and Alhambra hoping to score with the Grace

The serious feel they can't

note, struck by Kelly musical, "IIb Society"

go wrong with It's got an imposing cust- an adventure and as even the the Metrople and Star theatres, Princess has with her two of most sophisticatett people have is "Alexauder the Great" with Hollywood's most talented King old me how much they prefer Richard Burton in the title role. entertainment to It's on the lines of all the big. of Song in Bing Crosby and

type of Frank Sinatra--and in addition, something that makes

pictures, but also them spectacular about the iries too much

fo explain the complexity what to me is far more im- think

You'll this present day of the man's nature. portant, that coloured

clown troubles of the hottest trumpet in jaz world, who's to say that the choose this if you prefer cheese today

Louis Armstrong.

Queen's and Alhambra may not 1a apple plo anil cream. The King's and Princess are live the biggest Christmas Box

of the tokings

Ibt hopes on Pinheir

the Offico popularity of Dean Martin and "Barthage" is the firm, Jerry Lewis in what is probably There's more comedy at the the last picture they will make Roxy and Broadway, with together "Pardnery".

Katherine Hepburn guying all

dedicated those tough,

Lady Communists with which woro

I've already seen this picture and can thoroughly recommend

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SHOWING

HOOVEN and LIBERTY: "AL Gunpojat": A Fred Mac- western. Murray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan.

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PRINCESS: "The Square Jungle": Tony Curtin boxen his

In and อน trouble once again. WIR Pat Crowley, Ernest Borgnine.

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QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "Don't Knock the Rock": Rock 'n Roll de- fends itself against all comers. M Katey and the Cometa, Alan Freed, Alan Date,

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