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High Tide at Noon

BETTA ST. JOHN

WILLIAM SYLVESTER

MICHAEL ORAIQ

FLORA ROBSON

ALEXANDER KĦOX

PETER ARNE

PATRICK McGOOHAN

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BARBARA STANWYCK-BARRY SULLIVAN SCOTT BRADY · MARY MURPHY The

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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1957.

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Current & Coming

FILMS Co

International Police:

Victor Mature.and Anila Ekbery are billed as the big attractions of this pic- ture, but it is Trevor Howard who runs away with the acting honours.

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Which be is on the screen in scene with either of them, like old soldier, they quielty fado away into insignificance.

Dope peddling is the theme of "International Police"-called "Interpol" when I was shown In England - with Trevor Howard as the head et the ring. Oniwliting the poller, Anita Ekberg and Victor Mature | with on

ense that maker one he's going to be wonder how convincingly caught in the fast reel.

Exciting

The smuggling chain pass Deross Europe, allowing the director la include shots of Roman cutacombs, Athenian rooftops, sinister alleyways nnd. ns Victor Mature is supposed to a member of the United States Anti-Narcolje Squad, the dockland area of New Yorit is thrown in for good measure. .

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It is exciting quite often if you don't al Victor Mature's avy cynicism too false or Anita Ekberg's much sultry coolness too

vaunted calculated

and there are some good per- formances from the supporting Watch out for Sydney players. Tafier, always a sound character actor, as Curtis and Bonu Colleono as Amolio.

It Is Tender

High Tide At Noon:

This picture is set in Nova Scotia and tells of the hard life of the lobster fishermen there. The love story woven through it is tender and underplayed, as is usual in this type of British film and contrasts well with the violence of the beautifully Beascapes.

photographed

I admit that f particularly

am nordicled to shots of moun- tainuus waves breaking on rocky shores and storny landscapca generally, but you would have to be the most obstinate land- lubber to be kit unmoved by the photography in "High Tide | At Noon".

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films-

In Pictures

Martha Hyer looks on with horror as Tony Curtis is shot in "Mr Cory".

Robert Walker, Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy in "Thirty

Seconds Over Tokyo"..

man

It

It's a

allowing more build-up and mother when, after preliminary clearer insight into the reasons skirmishes, the blonde and the for the actions of the characters, salesman settled. down into

companionable conversation. The driver of the bus is Rick was the look

I've scen CX- Jason, a strong decisive, un- changed by two wallflowers at a whose dance when the most attractive smiling young WoTits are increased by wife girl in the room is dancing with trouble. Although jealous if he the best looking mate, Bella St John, no raving merely locks mother woman, mixture of malice, envy and beauty, but an actress with a she is outwardly cool towards self-satisfied smugness. sure touch and a complete him and the resulting tension understanding of every character she creates for herself causes she plays is Joanna Mackenzie, her to tuke to the boille. daughter of the "chieftain" of the island in Nova Scotla 10 which

after she is returning

SHOWING TO-DAY school on the mainland.

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

THE WAR STORY SO RAW...SO HOT THAT NO ONE DARED FILM IT TILL NOW!

The AVOCIATES and A2 BŘICH Ca protin

JACK PALANCE

EDDIE ALBERT

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Randolph Scott

Galt Russeli "SEVEN MEN FROM NOW"

STAGE CLUB

A casting meeting

FOR TWO ONE-ACT PLAYS,

“THE ROSE & CROWN"

by J. B. Priestly and

"TWO GENTLEMEN OF SOHO".

by A. P. Horbort

will be held at

"C" MESS, 24 MACDONNELL ROAD, (Opposite Peak Tram Station);

on Monday, 8th of July

at 8.00 p.m.

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Offsets

That fine actor, Alexander Knox is her father, ruling the island people with armness and understanding with, by his elde, wife-playtid by Flora Robson. The quietness and wisdom of these two alistis the wilder and more

passionate natures of the younger folk.

Leaving her behind in their roadside cafe Jason Aounces of on the long trip to the City with love, irritation and frustra tion fighting like rais in his mind.

His passengers crowd.

are a motley

Inter-relationship

the scenery through the windows The photography is good and

of the bus lovely, but the difer- for has wisely not fallen Into the ensy trap of making the picture

travelogue ü

with Cialogue. Much more time is There's It slick talking given to the inter-relationshify travelling sultanan, apparently between The

the passengers, the constant wolf type, a blond

sultry showgirl who knows too much tweer, the young girl and the passage in the barn be.

about men to have any respect driver and the citorts of the left for them, a hard-headed

highway patrol offer to seduce ruthless business man who would trample on anyone if the driver's wife while he the details would bring in an extra dolar away, than on

the journey. and a family of three consisting

is

of

Soon after her return to the of a querulous, demanding The best piece of azling in Jsland there are three suitors mother, outwardly docile father the pleture comes, surprisingly for the hand of Joanna, Patient, and man-chasing daughter. Blow

moving Nis, although avery inch a dependable fisher- man lacks the fire to win her, Simon, with his raffish air has more chance but is handicap- ped by his truculeace and air of dinhonesty

the third, Alec, has been away from the Joland for so long that he has to learn to it back into the Island society,

while

Atmosphere

nough, from Joan Collins. Behind the convincingly blowsy, alcohol-soaker amb ele berome, i is easy to be the nutrac ntiractive girl se

must have For trouble is

The atmosphere of impending been when first, married,

to have heightened by the sch glamour girl

aten a threat of a storm and it Is allowed herself to be seen obvious from the start that the muc

muci A * Dart must have taken 11-assorted collection of people quite a bit of courage.

She is are going to sirke sparks off very good indeed and has shed one another and that they will the irrtialing pertness of earlier Alma. Moro roles like this should turn her into

Things do not go smoothly all tum out to be different from her

what they seem. for Joanna even after she has chosen che from among the The restless daughter flings of the better of the younger three and hanging over her herrelf with unerring ahn at the marriage is the decaying air of head of the handsome bus

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act:esses,

The Wayward Bus" is well

A Letter

ไป

response to my

the community that is gradually driver and he, preoccupied with worth seeing, dying as its means of livelihood the dieult task of getting his dwindles.

10 San Juan parrenpers schedule, disturbed by 1017 quarrel with his wife, upset at their deberiorating relationship. Allowa himself slowly 10 succumb to her implied favita- tien. Dolores Michaels isn't called upon 10 do much more thoughts on Judy Holliday with this part than portray on in last week's column I re- overripe teenager whose parents coived a letter from a Chin- don't or won't understand the

liked this picture and rc- commend it to those who are tired of engster pletures, wes- terna and sophisticated elegance covering a lack of story,

More Build-up

The Wayward Bus:

to

mixed emotions involved in 250 reader that seems growing up. but this she does put the Chinese point of competently.

view very well. He says:- John Steinbeck's charac- cleverly tunable to the mood of With his subtle line of talk, ters are invariably complex the recipient, Dan Dailey, as the and the motives from which, travelling salesman is more than their actions spring are a match for the blonde Jayne often difficult to follow. that she knows all the answers.

Those in "The Wayward Bus”

A touch I particularly liked aro no excoption and it would was the sour grapes, "I know

· perhaps · have been better had that would happen" expression

Mansfield who is so conådent

I read with interest your Commentary on "The Solid Gold Cadillac", secking for an explanation for the lack of interest of the Hongkong at diences over the picture by Judy Holliday and Paul Dour glas,

I. for one as a Chinese,

the plcture "been made longer, on the mes of the discontented have an immenso. Kilding for

Judy Holliday, not only for her churns but also for her subtle way of comedy actingu and the human revelation her atories stand for. I am rather inclined to think it is the leading man, Paul Douglas who is too old to attract at- tention.

One Important reason why the average Chinese audience® fatted [D appreciate the western style of feminine comedy may have been due to the influence of the age-old background of the Chinese opera. When there is to be a show of feminine comedy in the Chinese opera, it is untol- I taken by an antie woman in funny make-up, bur tall serer played by the leading lady who can be nothing else buď ali lovely and well com- posed. I suppose it will take some more time to convert the audiences to love the mo~: dern heroine.

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo": The bombing of Tokyo during the second World War, Van John- дом, Spencer Tracy, Robert Bitchum,

KING'S ond

PRINCESS:

"Ugh Tide At Noon": Love and Ilfo among the fisherfolk on an island off the coast Scola Betta BL Juho, Alexander Knox, Flora Robson, William Sylve-

sler.

of Nova

METROPOLE and STAR:

"The Gold Rush": A re- Issue of one of Charles Chaplin's carly Nims made in the days when he

was known AB "Charlie"

QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "Internation. at Foller": Victor Mature of the Anti-Narcoties Squad Ригане dope poddler Trevor Howard Cross Europe while Anita Ekberg looks

elegantly on,

ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Wayward Bus": John

Sicinbeck's story abant a group of people thrown together during a bila journey. Jonna Cal- Ins. Rick Javon, Dan Dalley, Jayne Mansfeld, Betty Lou Keim.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Maverick Queen"; A western in which Barbara Stanwyck is the boys With Barry Bull- van, Scolt Brady, Mary Murphy. In Naturama, KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Littlest Outlaw": Wall Disney's Teclink- colour cartoon. METROPOLE and STAR: "Mr Cory": Tony Curtis proves that it is possible to be lucky at cards and lucky in love, With Martin Hyer, Kathryn Grant, Charles Blekford, QUEEN'S 2nd 'ALHAM-

BRA: "Nightfall": thriller. Alde Has, Anne Hameroft, Brian Keith, ROXY and BROADWAY: -"Three Men In A Boat":

Laurenos Harvey Kenneth

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