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Monday Feb. 25th at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 26th at 8.30 p.m.

LEE THEATRE

Prologue by Edrhund Blunaòn

Spatumes and settings designed by Douglas, Bland Music arranged and preschfed by S. M. Bard and Members of the Sino-British Orchestra.

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE PRICE: $10.00; $6.50; $4.50) $3.00; $2.00 AT THE LEE THEATRE AND AT THE LEE THEATRE-TOWN BOOKING OFFICE ··

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Dakota Incident": A western. Linda Darnell, Date Robertson, John Land, Ward Bond.

KING'S

"Red

and PRINCESS:

Sundown": A WEAVEN, tory Calhoun, Martia Hyer, Dean Jagger,

METROPOLE and STAR: ""Trapeze"; All the thrilis or the circus. Gita Lollobrigidas, Burt Lanenster, Tony Curtis,

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA; "The Burning Bills': A

westernt. Tab Natalic

Wood,

Hunter.

Eduard

Franz. Frank Paglia.

ROXY and BROADWAY; **Three Brave Men": Communit witch hunt- ing in America. Ernest Borgnine, Ray Mlland, Dean Jagger.

COMING

ROOVER

and LIBERTY: "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A re-issue of the Victorias melodrama. Spencer Tray, Lang Turner, Ingrid Bergman, KING'S

and PRINCESS; "IN Your Honeymoo

Necessary?": Really

Bedroom farce. Diana Dors, David Tomlinson,

and

drama

Bonar Colirano, "War Peace": Tolstoy's Russia. of old Henry Fonda. Audrey

Diel Hepburn,

Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman. METROPOLE and

The

Several actors can be seen нecond time within a short period at the moment.

in

A younger. Ingrid Bergman stars with

Spencer Tracy, "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" — the horror picture that is being re- vived at the Hoover and Liberty next weelt and it is interesting to compare her pr formance as the almple little barmaid who appeals to boscr Instincts of the doctor, with that of the Grand Duchess, Anastasia, in the film that has just finished at the Roxy and Broadway theatres.

the

Dean Jugger too presents two different faces, although both are fairly familiar. He appears almost as at home in the Stetsoa and

the leather jacket that is badge

performer in Western as he does in the star- studded uniform

sentor of a official of the American armed forces and can be seen wearing

01

both this week. The former in

"Red Sundown" and the latter in

Tree Brave Men".

Then

there's

Skip Hoineler who ruely seems to rise above "heel" rules, AN nican 412105 sadisile ara Western villain van be in "The Burning " he also han

part In Linda Durne

pleture "Dakota kudden"

val at the Hoover Liberty,

Last but evrtainly not least Lollobrigida, who changes her spangles and tights in "Trapeze" for the more digauled creations of a great opera star in "The Woman in the Atos Beautifut World".

Witch-Hunting

Three Brave Men:

Ernest Borgnine is

once

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films

In Pictures

Rory Calhoun and Martha Hyer in "Red Sundown"",

While the letter is good as the puzzled, loyal citizen who can't believe what it is happening to him, it is Ray Milland who is most convincing ture.

in this

Disappointing

The Burning Hills:

pic-

supposed to be a “good” Indian

was continually expecting him to turn on his employers the Suttons and allow the young couple to get away,

conclu- Before the expected. slon, mines cave in, redskins and and ruffians bite the dust everyone gets their just deserts. Where the burning his come in

can't think,

I

to

The best thing about "The

They were uniformly greeny Burning Hills" is the pre- blue in colouring and the only sence in it of Natalie Wood. reason for the title seems She's a very pretty young- be the fact that the setting is It is popularly ster with startling black Mexico where eyes and although she over- supposed to be hot most of the does the fiery Mexican girl

she is supposed to be por

again vast as "the little man traying, she is far ahead of

the Tab Hunter,

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his

in the street" in this pic- the rest of the cast as far ture. He is

an ordinary as acting is concerned.

here, his fellow,

of proud daughter's success at school irritating almost beyond endur. ance. He has neither looks nor and of his son's chances of acting ability and seems to have

to the prominence getting to the Naval Aca- risen STAR:

studio has given him by virtue demy of Annapolis.

However, it's the time of the of a broad pair of shoulders.

Amerlen big purge of 1953 in when so many people are look- Ing askance at their neighbours Do the simplest statements can be misconstrued. The resulting clurge is that of being "Com- mist.

Unguarded Moment": A teacher

(female), 瑞 teenager with murder and asapit added. QUEEN'S ad ALHAMBRA: "The Fiends"; A French thriller with English subtitles. Simont Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Bleari- Directed by Georges Clouzot, ROXY

and BROADWAY: "The Extra Day"; Film actors recalled from their various pursuits for an extra

day's shooting.

Richard Baschart, Simone Simon, George Baker

ΤΟ his dismay, Ernest Horging Bnds he has come to be regarded with suspiclon and But Dean Jagger, as Assistant bas

the

Serotry to

Navy, ordered his dismissal from his job, Ife is a security risk.

Must of the picture is taken up with the preparation for the Court Case

which Roy In Milland Acts in Borgnine's defehee.

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To-Morrow Morning Show At 12.30 p.m. "THE GOOD DIE YOUNG" Laurence HARVEY Gloria GRAHAME

time.

Shepherd's Delight

"Red Sundown" is a modest

mule picture and Jays no claim to being an epic, but it is com- petently made and in addition to the two good-looking stars Calhoun and Martha Hyer, has

added attrocilon as an veteran character actor Jagger who is never disappoint- ing.

that Dean

I had expected quite a lot As with "The Birning IDs" from this picture and although, the title bears little relation to as one picturegoer remarked the plot, but the colour la good "Once you've seen one Westem and there is plenty of action. A you've seen them all" it has good saloon brawl can always been well enough publicised to be counted on to help out in a more than routine Western, and there's a beauty

in "Red Sundown".

aruuse

Interest.

That this interest is so little deserved is due mainly to the use of nearly every stock situa- tion in the Western boole. Tab Hunter start the flim oft by re- herating ad nauseam that he "wants ter sre Mist'r Sutton". When sufficient interest

dialogue aroused by this plece of

sample of the rest-Mist'r Sutton is discovered at his desk and Tab Hunter, with as much viclousness as the poor boy can muster, discloses that he suspects three of Sulton's men of murder- Ing his brother.

By this time we have gathered that in spite of his misleadingly mild manners, Mr Sutton is the Bad Cattle Baron of the district and about as trustworthy as a rattlesnake, Hunter explains that he has trailed the three killers to the Sutton establish- ment

he and when asked if could identify

the men Bays that one chain smokes cherools. Signal

for

Sutton--Skip

Fon Hometer to enter with cheront

in corner of mouth.

After a little more by-play Wood

and

proves

tions

gun-play, Natalie

that in

the best trad}-

of all outdoor heroines she can bandage a wounded man, and cause him to gaze coulfully into her eyes in spite of the pain,

The girl is an orphan her father naturally having been killed by the Sutton gang - and with what I imagine, to be a broken Maxican accent, spends a lot of the film berating her spineless brother and tequila drinking uncle for not being as brave as Paw.

There's not a bad performance from Eduard Franz as a half Indian tracker and as he was

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TAB HUNTER and Natalie Wood flaming with the fire of first love in The Burning HillsTM

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