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KING'S ⋆ PRINCESS
At 2.80, 6.15, 7.20 & 2.80 pim. || AT 2:30, 120, 7.30 & 9.40 P.ML.
TO-DAY
SHE TOOK HIM IN
AND GAVE HIM
HER LOVE
His love affairs
were fantastic..
ho took what he
wanted from any woman
as long as she could
help him make a dollar!
DEATH
OF A SCOUNDREL
GEORGE SANDERS-WONNE DeCARLO
ZSA ZSA GABOR - VICTOR JONY
NANCY GATES - COLEEN GRAY
Jansen, Boecked and Presword by CHARLES MATĪB
£££ff-fufnkafu||~|||||||
SHE TOOK HIM
IN AND GAVE HIM. HER MILLIONS
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
KING'S of 11.00 a.m. WALT DISNEY presents TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. "TOM & JERRY" CINEMASCOPE
TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS By M-G-M
Admission: $1.00. $1.50
KING'S
air-Conditioned:
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW
TOMORROW AT 12 NOON
A Golden Opportunity for Chinese and Foreigners do Bee an Indian Picture with Exciting, Sensational Music mingled with Heart Pleasing Gevacolor Dances.
"NAGIN" (12 HIT SONGS)
Starring: Vyjayanthimala (famous Indian Movie Dancer) - Pradeep Kumar. Joeven - Mubarak & others,
Music; Hemant Kumar (Award Winner). Bookings open. Please purchase your tickets now to avoid disappointment.
HOOVER: LIBERTY
CAUSEWAY BAY TEL.72371
TO-DAY
Dangerous Curves! Riotous Fun! in a mad, merry chase on
THE
HAPPY ROAD
Awn
MGM
TO
PARIS
KOWLOON
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AT 2.30. 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 P.M.
Filmed in the beauty spots of France
and Switzerland.
GENTE KELLY
5 SHOWS TO-MORROW
HERRwła - couSITIONED
STAR THEAIRE METROPOLE
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★ AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
ABBOTT...
LOU
ANCE
WITH:
ME,
COSTELLO ENRY!
IT'S A CRAZY, MIXED-UP COMEDY
CARNIVAL
STAR: 5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performance of "DANCE WITH ME, HENRY!"'' A± 12.30 p.m.
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW STAR: At 1100 ĐƯỢ METROPOLE: At 11,00 a.m. LATEST FOX TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS PROGRAMME
* At Roduced Prices
METROPOLE: To-morrow Special Morning. Show
Ar 12.30 pm.
Jahn WAYNE in "SEARCHERS" In Warner Color
At Reduced Prices
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1957.
FILMS
| Death Of A Scoundrel:
Into the carefully planui life of confidence trickster, George Sandors, comes ₤ girl who knows alt his tricks and is impervious to his overy charm.
Glamorous Yvonne de Corio, answering to the rather mun reason to beware of Mr San- dane name of "Kelly" has good ders, but feeling that no owes a lot she penetrates his wushioned oflike with the sure knowledge that "Mr Sabourin will see ME".
he
is
the picture The rest of taken up with the many ways in which the, to me, unattrac- Live Mr Sunders has won his
tho way into
hearts and pockets of a number of gullible womch. Zsa Zsa Gabor is one inlthough to read the public ily magazine tho real-life bool was on the othe foot), art Nancy Gates and Coléen Gray also contribute to the yte in which he feels com- fortable to live.
His death la a welcome relief to all those who feel that the Sanders charm is keeping pace with his receding hairilne.
Real
unbusiness.
BY JANE ROBERTS
however.
the
700
The adults in "The Happy cinema it's not surprising "embraces in "Island In The
Abbott and Road" were che convincing and that
Costello's Bun" are about as suggestivo of Gene Kelly, usually so sure of latest effort should have falled passion as ten on the terrace. himself in any part, sommeti to) in like manner. It's a good thing The characters are paired off be wondering what he was that everyone's sense of humour into a husband and wife part- doing in a story of this sort. dees There was too much emphasis tot lie in the same direction nership in which James Mason as the indecisive son of a pro- placet on the popular miscon The Chinese section of the sperous planter harbours dark ception that all Americans
audience seemed to be particu- suspicious of his innocent wife, larly amused by the antics of emotion by
played with completo inck of Paris think all Frenchmen
Patricia Owenn, the cheruble Costels and when Michael Rennte is the object of liko and too little reason for the 1 ginnced round there seemed his jealousy, for which he pays France effets and completely incompatible
to be indulgent grins on
the penalty fairly early in the and faces of many of the rest of the film.) pernments of the
££I<t©T?CC -- soʻ— Lt жалья woman to fuse into love.
like Barbara Lange is better than slapstick, take "Dance With Me Kelly as they chic French girl leery". if you don't, lake the trying to do the best for her blaren, they'll love i little daughter by schling her to an expensive school her own parents could never afford for She is without the tricies her,
pro- and mannerisms of most fessional pretty manages to suggest a life that isn't been all roses without
losing her femininity.
man
Suggestive
"Island In The Sun": and I can't agree with "Time" magazine's film critic in his view that this picture is
One or two little touches tant were quite amusing would have been doubly so it they had been handled more dexterously.
Objectionable
The Inference
Dusky Dorothy Dandridge is pursued with √ gentlemanis decorum by the Governor's aide- de-camp, a part that John Justin manages
out to carry without getting a hair out of place and although, by walking straight into Miss Dandridge's house where she is stretched out
it must have come fairly near to else, it's difficult Happy
"Time's" description.
on
the sexiest West Indian daybed reading his intest
the inference manuscript, obvious, again, it's like tea travelogue over made"
The idea for the plot grew up
a hotel terracę. Alec Waugh's Imagiuntive A little less public is the mau and tortuous mind and from It hunting, bored beauty's chose emerged a best seller. I haven't after the coloured Inbour leader, read the original story but as but as Harry Belafonte makes
any book I am thinking particularly of hardly
reaches the fi constantly clear to Joan Fon-
without tain that his the incident
mind is on his on the gendarme a highest-selling bracket
good deal of sin and seduction ambition and Harry Belafonte motor-cyclo. Miss Lange
to believe I'm prepared beautifully cut silk sult with a
that to the exclusion of everything
to skirt that looked us though
imagine could barely let its wearer sit on
Don't expect much of this much in the way of off-screen the chalt, let alone astride & motor ever, Screen love scenes can be Boyd come closer to demonstrat edge of a fashion show sort of thing in the flim how clutches in this one sided affaire.
Colling and Stephen rycle is forood
to ride pillion every bit As torrid without a with Gone Folly behind the single clinch as those in which ing that "the mating season is policeman driver. Finally aban- it's difficult to see for most of always in full swing on the doning attempts at modesty, so the time whose limbs belong to throbbing Caribbean island of raises her skirts to her knees and who
but the absence of Santa Marta" (I quela "Time" gingarty lowers herself on to the
again, but even when she wi motor-cyclo. With a flourish the
nounces to her mother that she driver adjusts his mirror for the
has decided to go
to Canada maximum enjoyment of the
Lo deal with the problem Lugo knees. However, by an over
motherhood (she won't marry long camera shot of the Uttle
Boyd because sho imagineg her the piece of "business" too much
self to be partly coloured) she sirens being laid on it, a clever
makes it sound more ke A touch turned into something
necessary but boring visit to the almost objectionable.
dentist.
The Happy Road:
The emphasis is on the adjective in this picture, for although Barbara Lange as the divorcee mother of little French girl and Gene Kelly as the busy business man father of a small American French, boy frantically engaged searching for their runaway children throughout
ilm, there's plenty of room left for laughs.
aire
are
in
The two children
in- This is a black and white pic- separable at school but decide turo obviously made on a small to run away to their respective budget, the story doesn't hang parents who they understand to together any too well and quite be somewhere in Paris. There's often credibility is encriced for a very refreshing and uncom- an easy laugh, yet it's a wazin, plicated friendship between pleasant flm that leaves you with these two youngsters - the reeling of goodwill
towards hoy protective but not aggres children, lovers and even police- sively so, and the girl self- posscssed but sweet
the in astringent way of Continental children.
They each bring something to
men.
Slapstick
the partnership. Her knowledge Dance With Me Henry:
ventiveness provides the impetus to carry them on towards their Foal.
Bewildered
a
af French helps them through On the heels of the un- many Improbable but laughable nouncement of the death of situations and his American in the formy man half of the
Laurel and Hardy team fat man Oliver Hardy - up comes a comedy by team of almost the same Particularly funny was the vintage Abbott and Cos- scene in which they hitch a ride in a news commentator's car by telo. pretending to be the children of Although the latter may be of 0 cycllst competing
aa alightly later date than the uziraihan eycling race. Waving Laurel and Hardy partnership, to their bewildered "Papa" from the humour is very much the the comfort of the cruising car,
with the stooge taking encouraging him, to his utter the falls, the banana skin slips, bewilderment, and hugely the bumps, bruises and all the enjoying themzelves they gave many misfortunes besetting the a perfect example of the facility life of a comic. of chlidren to give themselves
Up
to the
happiness of the
same,
To be perfectly honest, neither moment 10 the completo Pair have thrown me into the ellmination of anything more paroxys of mirth that have pressing.
schood all round mo in
the
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New Films
-At- A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Happy Road": Two Punk Way children antio thetr
parenta. Geno Kelly, Barbara Lange, KING'S and PRINCESS:
"Death of a Scoundrel": The man la the bird of proy, the women are tho willing victims, Georgo Sanders,
de Yvonne Carto, Zsa Zsa Gabor, METROPOLE and STAR: "Dance With Me Henty": Abbott and Costello again. QUEEN'S and ALHAM-
DRA “Stampeded": A' western. Alan Ladd, Virginia. Mayo, Neville Brand KOXY and BROADWAY: "Island In The Sun": True love and the other thing under the hob Caribbean sunshino. Jean Fontaine, Harry Bela- foute, Dorothy Dand- ridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie, James Magdo
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "It Great To Be Young":
Comedy, John Mills and Cecil Farker. KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Lonely Man": A western. Jack Falance, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand. METROPOLE and STAR: "The Roads Legend": A western. Hagh O'Brien. QUEEN'S and ALHAM- "Fire Down Bo- Rita Elsy worth is sea between tha devil as played by Robert Mitchin, her own dia. illusion and the naiveto of Jack Lemmon, LOXX and BROADWAY: "An Afsir To Remem- ber': Romanos plus mis- understanding in Sip posed to equal sudden maturity, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr,
BRA: low"; ali at
Joan
Unrewarding
cast
In a rather unrewarding cole as the father of James Mason and Joan Collins, Ball Sydney comes off better than the rest of the
Unimaginative, direct, accustomed to rule his family at his workers with benevolent disregard for foolish deviation from the cepted Colonial way of life, he is like bewildered bull when eventa depart from their normal pattern.
+
any де
Poor Diana Wyrryand scented completely out of place among the other players. Her thestad- cal reactions might have carried more conviction End they not been so allen to the relaxed technique of people more used to the rereen than the stage. The melodramatic way in which she revealed her guilty secret to her been more daughter would have at home in a period piece in- stead of In an attempted expose of the problems contronting community. in which promise must be found between the desire for self-government by the local population and the administration of benefis by the educated executives.
OCDL-
The De Luxe colour I found hard on the eyes, but I have no doubt that the lush presente- tion, impressive cast and aug gestive exploitation will pack the Roxy and Broadway for t satisfactory run from the office point of slow.
Pint-Sized
Stampeded:
110k
the
This picture has alternative title of "The Big Land" but as both give the required impression it is of no material difference what it's called.
The story is of a catliemaN, misunderstood by his trituds, loved by a girlVirginia Mayo
befriended by ala-buddy Edmond O'Brien and in the final reel loved by everyone. Ladles and gentlemen....I give you....pint-sized Alan Laddi
ORIENTAL MAJESTIC
AIR
CONDITIONED
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 230, 8.30, 7.30 à 9.30 p.m. Au exelting & interesting fim. Taken from actual scenes.
VICTORY
AT SEA
Maning Show To-morrow 12.30
"Kook ATMnd The Clock".
TO-DAY
At 2.30, 620, 7.30 & 9.10. p.m.
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
| Starring
Gene Tierney Cornel Wilde Jeanne Crain
‚Â ̈ BIM CENTURY-rom (picture
TaMorrow. 386 show - Show
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
1. 7.90A N, 30 2011
QUAN, FIRA, ↑ 26 A NDA p 191,
GRAND OPENING TO-DAY ★
5 SSOWS TO-MORROW EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11,30 A.M.
ROARING OUT OF THE MISSOURI- KANSAS BORDERLAND!
The
Texas
gun-finger and the
Kansas City Monda
The story of Chad Bargas-wa nem* gave the bly kuod the biggest showdown it had ever se007!
ALAN LADD MAYO
VIRGINIA
EDMOND O'BRIEN
in
STAMPEDED
„WARMEERCOLOR
ROX Y & BROADWAY
SHOWING TO-DAY
Please note change of times:
ROXY: At 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M. BROADWAY: At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M. More daring than the screen has over dared before! DARRYL F. ZANUCK'S
İSLAND
SUN
James MASON-Juan FONTAINE-Dorothy DANDRIDGE+Join COLLINS-Hehe! RENNIE anking Harry BELAFONTE
WROTE Boy
ma Dana Wayang + „bean Wadlene › 'Blaston Bay - Shan Dyonay
COLOR DE LUFIZ
BOREZAMAN BY
CINEMASCOPE DARRYL F. ZANUCK ALFRED HAYES
GET 19
4
5 SHOWS TO-MORROW, EXTRA PERFORMANCE OF "ISLAND IN THE SUN" ROXY: . At 12.00 Noon BROADWAY: At 12.15 p.m.
BROADWAY: To-morrow Special Morning Show At. 11.00 am, Walt Disney's Feature-longth Technicolor Cartoon "PINOCCHIO” — At Reduced Prices
CAPITOL RITZ SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 9.30 P.M.
THEY CLASHED IN A HEAD-ON
CONFLICTI
med trans
Three Violent People
CHARLTON
ANNE
HESTON BAXTER
GILBERT
TOM
ROLAND TRYON
SONTEST
GECE
TUCKER BENNETT
+ ELAINE SLITCH,
BUDOLPH MALÉ
Sovvale de JAMES EPHARD GAMET TECHNICOLOR
TO-MORROW SPECIÁL AT 12:30 P.M. CAPITOL
"THE OUTLAW WOMAN”
in. Cole
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