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KING'S PRINCESS

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NOW SHOWING

5 SHOWS TO-MORROW "THE MOUNTAIN" Extra Performance at 12.20 p.m.

AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE IN SHEER SUSPENAKI

PARAMOUNT PRESENTS

SPENCER TRACY ROBERT WAGNER

THE MOUNTAIN

Lastating

CLAIRE TREVOR

Product and Oracted by EDWARD DMYTRYX

TECHNICOLOR® SCIOEMONS OF RAIALD MACDOUGALL Baby News Treyst

EXTRA MORNING

KING'S at 11.15 a.m.

Warner Bros. presents VARIETY PROGRAMME

Artusty

FRENCH AL

VISTAVISION

SHOW TO-MORROW

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. Warner Bros' Technicolor Cartoons plus short Features The Gang's "Anniversary Trouble" & TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Laurel-Hardy's "Helpmates"

At Reduced Admission —

;

OF

At $1.00 $1.50

ROXY & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY Please note change of times:

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M. IT'S SUMPTUOUS! IT'S STUPENDOUS! IT'S SUPERB!

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1967.

FILMS

There were two films shown last week that I am sure must come back, In their very different ways they deserve a return en- gagement,

First "Woman of the River":

串

Gloom & Mambo

"Woman of the River" starts off to the insistent beat of the mambo and the eye is caught immediately after by a boat slowly com- ing into view through the sluice gates of an cel fag- tory.

Not the most romantic spot in the world to place a girl like Sophia Loren is this steamy, fishy, unappetising pirce and Misa Loren is shown looking as untidy, hot and sticky as people who work in such places must be

There are many such touches of realism that illustrate in a dash the kind of fe lived in these poor areas along the banks of the River Po.

whips out a comb before he wagers in to greet the girls, a quick

shot of the musculer legs

of a Baher

girl and the coolness of a church on Sunday as its belis ring out across the silent swamps,

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films

In Pictures

A scene from "The Mountain,"

costume

There's the lusty young at his exploits in the Band doubl if the dialogue would tobneco smuggler who swiftly Waggon shows with Richard sound any better in Italian.

Murdock, but in the following" To be fair, it, is an attempt to years his patter wore thin and appeal to lovers of spectacle and his jokes became tired.

probably the script writer was His renewed success in the not thought to be a very im- Palladium shows recently was portant member of the

team. inexplicable to me until I saw The trouble is that it does

aven this him and realised what an not succeed

drama. artist the little man is

With his thickest of thick In the battle scenes the glasses, bow-legged walk and a

deaths are farcical and mighty continual chuckle in his voice, war looks like A preliminary just to see him is an invitation skirmish. to laughter. He

com- it would seem that the Is the plete answer to Norman King Assur must have hed to Wisdom and has a senso of scrape the bottom of the bar- timing that this other popular rel for courtiers, so small is als comedian has not yet develop following.

On the debit side there is the meledramatle handling of the story itself-one of love, scorn, betrayal and revenge. humour there Is

practically none and towards the end the

Of

gloom was piled on too thickly for even my somewhat morbid taste.

The splendid photography is ample compensation, however, and Sophia Loren lovely to look

Love Second- "The Match":

It.

ENQULFING ACTION

CATAT ORGANISATION PERSENTE

AND

NIGHTY SPECTACLES

Queen of Babylon ("SEMIRAMIS")

Celer by TECHIDOLOR✯ în PANORAMIC

STARRIND

*

RHONDA FLEMING

RICARDO MONTALBAN

ORIGINAL ENGLISH VERSION

དམས་མནཾཡས་ས་དི་གམཱིས;

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: A: 12.00 Noon || BROADWAY; At 11,00 a.m.

20th Century-Fox presents

In CinemaScope & Color

"PRINCE VALIANT"

Starring: Robert Wagner Reduced Admission

p

$1.50, $1.00 & 70 Ct,

UNIVERSAL

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At Reduced Pricas

At 12.30 p.m.

"QUEEN OF BABYLON"

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

AIR

CONDITIONED

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.50. 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PAL SHOWING TO-DAY

Recommended for Everybody!

except parents with a

guilty conscience!

A grown-up motion picture tor grown-up emotions!

TEENAGE

REBEL

ONEMASCOPË

LOADGIN

GINGER ROGERS MICHAEL RENNIE,

Med Natrick

Morning Show To-morrow 12.30 "DESIREE" in CinemaScope

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30

& 9.30 P.M.

A LAUCH ON

THE OCEAN WAVE!

Bly shuts on the pint S liggest comedy lasti

MILLE ATTENDEROINE

►TJE BABY AND? STRÉ BATTLESHIP

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SHOW AT 12.80 P.M "BUD AND LOU MEET THE MUMMY"

CAPITOL FITZ

To-day At 230, 9.20, 7.30 & 9.40 p.m.

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Shin your mjere for Moby Dick |

To-morrow Morning Show At 12.30.p.m. Tony Curtii » Imet Lely HOUDIN

Askey Returns

This is a completely crazy story involving the British comedian who

has made euch a comeback in Music Hall in England Arthur Aakey.

During the war be mode most people roar with laughter

For That Perfect Evening DINE & DANCE

at

Winner Restaurant

&

NIGHT CLUB

Music by BENNY & his Melody Makers

AT USUAL PRICE

WINNER HOUSE King's Road

Tel. 70301

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In the court scenes

Great

The story, graced with names that

have nodding aquaintanes history, concerns that

of Lime

when the came down like wolf and gobbled up Chalden. The ancient cily of Ur was then Baby Babylon and as Babylon is ynonymous with sin, ratis have been the locality that de- cided the producers that this was a good property.

In "The Lova Match" he is, of all things, a train driver with with

period lugubrious character who is perfect fall for him. This is his fireman, mate, or whatever is the correct designation for the second In command of sicam engine The pair of them are in constant hot water with the Railway authorities and it is a game of wits to sec who will come off best.

The farce is laid on with A trowel, but if it doesn't provoke laughter from both Chinese and

foreign audiences

Alm" "Hind· · utilised, more fully and more successfully than any. other 1956 Alm, the artistle and technical resources which dis- tinguish the motion picture from other arts."

Ro

The National Board of view, one of the United States most influmiial public organi tlong conegued with motibaj pick tures, started back in 1920 the. now widely-copied ·przeties of selecting the top best flims of the year...

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and

LIBERTY:

"The Fastest Gun Alive": A western. Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Jeanne Crain,

KING'S and PRINCESS:

The Mountain": Suspense and thrills in the French Alps. Spencer Tracy. Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, METROPOLE and STAR: "Toy Tiger": Sentimental Jeff Chandler, comedy Tim Hovey, Laraine Day.

ROXY

QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "Seven Men From Now": A western Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvių.

and BROADWAY: "SEMIRAMIS":

Twen- tieth century idéa of orgies in old Babylon. Rhonda Fleming, Bicardo Montalbate

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY:

of

"Madame Curie': A re- Issuo scientiat's Greer Garson, Pidgeon. "Teahouse af

the woman

life story.

the

in

The Assyrion

usurper Assur Is the villain. his cousin, who spends his time when not plotting to overthrow him, chooses his dancing girls from captive Chaldeans, and the ane. very surprised Indeed,

upstanding champion of the One lovely sceno-which I conquered is Ricardo Montal- hope the Kowloou-Canton Rafi- ban. Rhonda Fleming, dis- way won't copy-shows Arthur covered coyly caring for goats Askey and his mate whipping when first seen, progresses from up Their train to get back for this comparative freedom to football match. The train captivity at the dissolute court, cintters through

stations, a brief period of bliss with her whizzes along the tracks and lover who pierces her prison comes to a grinding halt as tha

In the best tradition of two catapult from the driving swashbucklers, by creeping in

through the garden, cab and canter off to their game

a short with submission leaving signalmen with

reign of sulky hair shaking fists all along the the villain and anal happy jine.

ending as Queen of Babylon.

KING'S shall be

2

lora

Best 1956 Film

Michael Todd's "Around

Walter

August Moon": About American forces Okinawa and one of the beat films made In reocht times. Glenn Ford, Afarlan Brando, Eddie Albert. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Checkpoint": Crime and motor racing mingled with romance. Anthony Steel, James Robertson Justice, Odile Versols, Blauley Baker, Tho Vagabond King": Ausical washbuckler.”

Shirley Eaton is a pleasan". little newcomer to the starle barid and in spite of the dread- ful nocent she has been called to adopt as a

Akta to Nor country The World in 80 Days" railwayman's daugher likable.

is very has been chosen as the best motion picture of 1956 by the National Board of Re- view's Committee on Ex- ceptional Films.'

A Spectacle

“Semiramis”: :

Henry Hart, chairman of the and clitor of the

The best thing that can commitler be said about this film is Board's magazine, Filma je Ra- vlow, sald "Around The World that Rhonda Fleming looks In 30 Days" was chosen Decad attractive and that for those the committee believed that the of you who like the familiar trappings of girls, whips, brutes and accidental en- counters in swimming pools, there's plenty of it.

The film was made in Italy and spart from Rhonda Flem- ing and Ricardo Montalban who in spite of his name ap- pears to speak good Ameri- canese-the speech is dubbed, I

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KING'S ROAD

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SEE THE ENCHANTMENT OF ASIA IN THE MYSTERIOUS. ISLANDS OF BALI & MALAYA.

FILMED FOR THE FIRST TIME!

A TRUE AND DIFFERENT

| PICTURE UNLIKE ANY YOU

HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE

CANNES FESTIVAL AWARD WINNER'

CINEMASCOPE FERRANIACOLOR

LOST CONTINENT

and ALHAM- BRA: "WEB": A good crime

thriller in Freneli with English sub-titles. Directed by Jules Dessin, with Jean Cervals as the principal actor, "Batel- lite in the Sky-Bolence Walter 21ad-4, Lola

Moxwell, Donald Wollt. "Animal World". Alta to "The Living Desert": Written, pro duced and directed by Train Allen. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Fale of Two Queens": Hedy Costume drama, I smart. "The Girl Can't Help It": Story plus Rock 'N Roll. Заупе Mansfield. Tom Kwell, Edmond O'Brien,

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