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KING'S - PRINCESS

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Walt Disney's

Lady Tranny

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From the novel by Mart trans

EXTRA SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

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"LADY & THE TRAMP"

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BHARTI”

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1957.

FILMS

THE excellent

business

being done by eight of the ten first run cinemas in Hongkong has enabled them to keep last Saturday's pic- tures running for a second week-end. I'm sure that the other two, if they had not been subject to direction outside Hongkong, could have done the same thing.

Having reviewed all but one of last week's pictures thero's plenty

to look at of room. "Anastasia,”

Disappointing

To be perfectly truthful and having due regard for the in- terest it for "her cause, the lady rather bored me.

Perhaps it was because I was nee such an ardent admirer of Ingrid Bergman that I was dis- appointed to flad that after an absence from the screen for so long she is back with all her old tricks. It would have been so much better if she had stay- ed away until, with age, charac- ler parts would have come hur metler.

In "Anastasia" she is trying to combine the exploitation of her beauty with, aided by hideous make-up, the characterisation of a half-mad, unkempt

Case.

omnenia

The looks she once had Arc naturally not as clear-cut once they were and her acting consists of a series nt mun- nerisms.

Akim Tamiroff-looking like asqual tone and far from the earthy guerilla who appeared with Miss Bergman in "For

Whom The Bell Toll"—comnes off best in this picture,

Stock Characters

Corrent + Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

:

This Week's Films In Pictures

A scene from "Trapeze"

streets of Paris to find someone who will be acceptable, so that through her, they can lay hands on the money.

There is a great deal made of tile grooming of Ingrid Bergman to Ai her for the gruelling ques- tons she will be asked by the committee and it is not until quite late in the film that one discovers whether or not she is the impostor she, la her half mad tale, sometimes believes herself

to be.

his heart of gold is allowed to come shining through towards the end of the picture.

The sentiment is not too thick- ly piled on, however, and al- though it may not be brilliant, this picture jogs along at an even pace in spite of having been produced oxi a low budget,

Bedroom Farce

Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?

THIS film is chiefly to

show off the charms of

The plot--taken from the suc- cessful stage play-has plenty of scope in 11 for the right actors, but possibly because of over tightly-strapped-in Diana simplifiention of the script. Dors, but it also has three He is a corrupt business man Ingrid Berginan and Yul of Britain's light comedians in league with a fellow repre- Brynner never seem to come to -David Tomlinson, Sydney sentative of White Russin to life. They shout at each other. gain control of a large fortune feel affection towards each other James and Bonar Colleano.

Grand and occasionally give glimpses Duchess Anastasia, believed to of being real people but only have survived the massacre of occasionally. For much of the the Russian Royal family

in time they are stock characters 1018.

projecting the emotions called for by director Anatole Litvak. It is melodrama rather than

left in trust for

the

A group of the old Russion nobilly have formed a company to find the missing woman whom they all believe to be alive and Yul Brynner, a General in the old Russian

Aldın Army, Tamiroff and others comb the

EMPIRE

drama.

Dynamic Cagney

The latter, it is true, is Ameri can, but has been on the British long stage and screen for 60 that his brand of humour has become completely Anglicised.

Is

amusing

The story is simple and need hardly be mentioned. Diana Dory is a gold digger who has como back to tell her husband Bonar Colleano

thai they are not divorced. This legally

embarrassing for especially Collcano as he has just These Wilder Years

married,

There are THE star of "These Wilder

some Years" in Betty Lou scenes much better done than Keim. She is an unmarried his type of thing usually is mother befriended by James in which Wite No. 1 is shut into one bedroom while Wife No. 2 Cagney when access to his

in conversation, is engaged own illegitimate child -

Interested David Tomlinson la an "KING'S RD., H. K. DE 70103

disowned by him 20 years bystander and Sydney James

is denied him. faltes as many laughs as any. To-day: 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. previously

Diana Deciver Is not very THE FUNNIEST MOVIE IN Barbara Stanwyck has a fair- effective as the new wife, but MAYBE TWENTY YEARS!y strong part as the head of a as she is only a foll for Diana

home for adopted children and Dorg it doesn't matter

much she makes the character

Everyone is suitably paired sympathetle oc00,

However, I would have pre. off by the last reel and though ferred to have seen her exert not a top liner in British comedy less

a little it has in it enough humour to appeal and more insight into the solitary please those nostalgie for the life a

a woman in that sort of job film they saw "back Home" and must lead. One feels that her which never reach our Hongkong

screens、、 of wits with James Cagney, who has a twinge of conscience occasioned by his own middle aged loneliness is more of a fight between two people "mutually attracted" as the cinema Jargon has it, than i clash of two personalities with deeply rooted opinions.

ALIYSON LEMMON

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James Cagney is his usual dynamle little self, riding rough- shod over anyone who attempts oppose him, and as usual

to

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New Films -At- A Glance

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HOOVER and LIBERTY:

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Years": Wilder Illegitimacy and tie evils, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pid. geon, Betty Lou Keim, Don Dubbins.

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METROPOLE and STAR; ""Trapez""; All the thrill of the elrous plus ins Lollobrigida, With Burt Lancaster and Tony Ourtis,

QUEEN's and ALHAMBRA: "Од the Waterfront": Violence among dockers and their union leaders, Marlon Brando, Rod Stelger, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Maiden.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Anastasia": There is a legend that a daughter of the last Oxar of Russia survived the family

massacro:

thin picture deals with the possibility that sho did. Ingrid Bergman. Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes.

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