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KING'S PRINCESS
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DONALD
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the Hilarious
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DONALD
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ANN
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THE FANTASTIC RISE AND FABULOUS FALL OF ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL FUNNY MEN!
THE BUSTER
KEATON STORY
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HENRY FONDA
"THE WRONG MAN":
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1957.
FILMS
Lizzic:
or
As her doctor explains to her via the hackneyed means of a hypnotic trance, Lizzie is not just one per- son like you
me, but three distinct personalities hiding behind one face.
When the is "Beth" she ly a normal, pleasant if somewhat urdhry young woman obvious:- ly designed to drop neatly into the niche of wifchood, mother- hood and the accompanying household trivialities,
Lizzie a different type entirely. Parading her sex like a guzdy banner she imagines irresistable and devours berseit the man of her choice lika hurry tigress.
Current & Coming,
BY JANE ROBERTS
ГГГГГ
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Donald O'Connor and Ann Blyth as Mr and Mrs Buster
Kraton.
Between the two is poor be- devilled Elizabeth, Confused by misty memories of her noctur- nal pleasures as "Wizzle" and rimly aware of the balanced person she could be if she al- lowed "Beth" to take over, Elizabeth, like the subject of pore Miss Gaynor's performance from under their glamour- the well-known malted
drink in "Daddy Long Lege" with this boy noses in "Joo Butter- adverUsements, neglects her job, onc-DON'T. You'll have your fly". Is berated by the boss and is #
cacort getting out his Abacus Even Geotge Nader's careful- source of worry to her friends and adding another ten years to and relatives.
what you told him, and like the by arranged coiffure and Audio Murphy's le böy tulences tenth lite algger boy. Soun
can't compete with the aging, there'll be none.
urly, gnome-liko rascality of Meredith's Japanese
The Psychiatrist
The solution, however, is not
Charles Farrell's screen Burgess sweetheart has certainly borne wild boy, the years gracefully though and
a cup of the patent beverage every night before going to bed, but daily consultation with a sho makes ง mother nny good looking psychiatrist.
appearance-conscious American How the director has dated college boy could be proud of. to une lines like, "Now you'ro Richard Sargent is her son in
into a
acep
atid icep, DEEEEP "Barnline"
he going
and sleep after all the guying this America's top pop singer of the type of ham hypnosis has taken momentPat Boone bead the I can't think. Its a tribute to male cast list. Rehard Boone that he doesn't make them as fatuous as they might have been on the lips of a lcss convincing screen doctor.
for all forget
Exhibitionistic
If one admits that growing up
Unsympathetic
I was sorry to see one of my favourite
Actors- charactor Keenan Wynn-in a mildly un- sympathetic role as the civilian war correspondent who "always travel Brst
the class while runkers who get out the Am-ri- can Army Newspaper "Yank" have to rough it with the rest of the boys, but he squeezes
in
a painful, interesting and some quilo znappy lines in spile
of
efforts of cerns the
As Lizzie's bibulous, practical dreadfully serious business but of coming off second best in the but basleally kind aunt, Joan only to those who are going battle of the deadline. Blondell shows that it she
It then the
plot of Thatline"
of Briefly "Jou Butterfly" con could once and
Is written off in a
sergeant hat she was formerly t single sentence. 14, on the other editor George Nader and skittish showgiri on the erect hand, beneath the "I must prove staff of four to bring out in three sho might become a pecond
ond that. I'm a man xallon
I days o complete issue of their Bette Davis. For the times.
American college boys servico newspaper. she relles on stock reactions to more that we see 93 the screen With his right hand,
their communicate a mood there are anyway it is realised that there colonel-played with his usual compensating Basher of genuine does exist lost and lonely sense irascibilly by Fred Clark-gives feeling and she is far more of
then the of insecurity,
some them app talk on the morale a real person than the stagily
Absurd Limes
autics of Pat raising results If the newspaper Tormented Lizzle.
and comes out on time, and with his Boone, Richard Sargent
quite as 1ft, by refusing their requests their "gang" are not exhibitionistic as they seem. for an office and equipment, ro- moves the possiblity of their e- complishing the job,
Divided In Half
Torry Moore is the girl friend,
The picture secans almost i be divided in half. On the one Janet Gaynor's Love interest side are the conventional flim (yes, sho is still allowed doctor and his equally con- admirers) is Dean Jagger and ventional neurotic patient, and that old reliable Walter Abel is on the other the slightly seedy Me Beaumont, writer, beautifully underplayed by director Hugo Hans, and Jonn Blondell's worthwhile try ala plece of acting.
It is difficult to see lww the details of Lizzie's past and the different.courses her spilt per- sonality pursues could have been treated otherwise than they are, but I would have liked to have seen Teas scrappiness in their presentation.
In spite of this though, "Lizzie" is good soild mealy entertainment with only
dragging moments,
few
A Warning
Bernadine!
Guaranteed
Doctor At Large:
than the one
Oriental Logic
This is where Mr Fixit Joo Butterfly comes in, With an Oriental logic that is even abla to bring a, pattern or virtuous behaviour into dishonesly be secures for the boys first a house bomb space (when office riddled Tokyo is at a premium then ever for 14 Storal) cameras, quickly followed by all the necessary requirements for getting the newspaper out on
Sequels must be very good with to stand comparison
They are their predecessors. always expected to be at least a degree better before and even if they equal the standard of the previous time.
often fall to I liked this bn. It doesn't pictures, they
have the same range of feeling satisfy.
"Doctor At Large” is the mixture as before not quite efficacious as last Lime,
15
19
"Teahouse of the August. Moon" Or the Imaginuilve photography (even though it in advertised as having been filmed elirely in Jopan many back- grounds look faked) but it amusing light-hearted and a feather in the cap of Buress Meredith.
New Films -At- A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Lizzie": Eleanor Parker be good, bad and Indif- ferent as the reveals tha three sides of her chara acter, With Richard Boone, Josa Blondell, Haro Hass
KING'S and · PRINCES8: **The Buster Keaton Story: The back stage life of the famous dead- pan oomedian with Donald O'Connor in the titio role, Ann Blythe And Rhonda Fleming card the ladies present. METROPOLE and STAR: "Joe Butterfly"; More of the "Teshots of the August Moon"
brew. Burgen Meredith, Andin Murphy, George Nader, Keenan Wynn. QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BKA: "Doctor At Large": Dirk Bogardo gets into more hot water in his search for the perfect post. With James Robert- Justice, Mariel Paylow, Donald Sinden, ROXY' and BROADWAY: "Berhadise"; The grow- ing pains of present day American college boys, Pat Boone, Janes Gay- nor, Terry Moore, Dean Jagger,
COMING
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QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "Biampefted"; A Western. Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo. ROXY A BROADWAY: **Island In Tho Ban": The
smoulders, onst burtia Bod scorches through
of A series Caribbean 'love' affairs. Josn Fontaine, Harry Belafonts, James Mason, Joan Collins, Michael
Dand Rennie, Dorothy ridre.
but guaranteed to hit the spol. When Visiting Hong Kong
Glamour-Boy
Joe Butterfly:
"Bernadine" brings buck Janet Gaynor to the screen und before we launch out into the details, here aro Audie Murphy and some words of warning for George Nader may have a the ladies.
bigger film fan following However tempted you are to than Burgess Meredith, but air your knowledge and com- ho steals the show right
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