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KING'S ✰ PRINCESS? /

TO-DAY

THE HEART OF A GUN SLINGER EXPOSED ON THE SCREEN!

JACK

Pom Presenta

THE LONELY MAN

ANTHONY

PALANCE PERKINS

NEVILLE BRAND ROBERT MIDDLETON ELAINE AIKEN Produced by Pat Duggan Directed by Henry Lewin-Willen by Harry Essex and Robert Smith TISTAVISION

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW At 11.00 a.m. 20th Century-Fox prosent

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

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KING'S

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TO-MORROW

AT 12 NOON

BASANT PICTURES prosent

“DAKU”

Starring: Shammi Kapoor - Shashikala

Anwar. Kuldip Kaur

Songs sung by: Asha Bhonslo & Mukesh With English & Chinoso Subtities Regular Admission Pricos

PRINCESS

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Adding to Your

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1957.

FILMS

Fire Down Below:

Filmed in the tropical splendour of the British West Indies, "Fire Down Below," starring Rita Hay- worth, Robert Mitchum, and Jack Lemmon, is now show- ing at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres. Tho unique and breathtakingly beautiful backgrounds, screened in Cinemascope al Technicolour, are not the least of the attractions and the enjoyment to be found in the film.

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The india emphasis of "Fire Down Below" on actions. During the film the story takes many original and exciting turns It develops its engrossing narratii 2, Adopted trom the populer und best-selling novel by Max Catto, 44ra Down Below" teits the story of strange and beautiful wymian Felix and Tony (Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon} own and run a small boat on occasional smuggling exçursions

among the small islands of the

Caribbean Sea.

Everything

When

they are hired to transport Irena, (BILL

HAY worth) a lovely woman who has ho passport from one island to

another, the two partners fall out with each other over hier.

hended charmer.

like

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY

Harry Belafonte and Joan Fontaine in "Island In The Sun".

the emotional

an evil killer. Not only must Pulance problem of making pence with his son, but he is physically

by a band of out who seek to avenge a

threatened laws, killing

Cecil

FULLER

with this one, For I confess I am a dog lover, the kind of dog lover "Indignant" writes to the paper about. The kind who lavishes affec- tion on a dog, and, 1 admit, one who receives affection in return.

“Kelly and Me" in all about a dog, and an Alsatian at that, So you and better be the critic and I'll just say that this dog sicals the picture.

A Technicolour and Cinema- scopo production, now showing a the Metropole and the Star, la all about a ditamer who reached for the stars and grabbed a handful of nothing until Kelly, a whita Alsatian, lent him a helping

paw, and leads him to Hollywood and stardom. You can zoo I'm so taken up with the dog, I for- not to tell you that Van Johnson Is the down-and-out vaudeville performer Kelly helps out,

Great Last Days

master with a passion for symphony music and jazz. Naturally his class has the best Each and Boogey Band

Glamour ls provided by in the business, and that is where the trouble, and the Piper Laurie in the role of the Robert Middleton in the other riot of fun, begin.

daughter of a motion plcture studio head, and Martha Hyer star In this Vista-Vison Alma,

as a slinky screen vamp. If you and he is the second part of the Parker, is appointed to the admit to ageing some ten years

A new headmaster. answer to the question every

it out of step with this century, Western fan will be asking: "T school, and he soon makes there a lusty, knuckle damaging, clear

music is to take you will get a nostalgic glimpse place to lessons, The of the Inst great days of knock-down fight?". Of course second there is, one that will have you pupils make it equally clear, that vaudeville; that was somewhere

such is not the case,

around the early thirties, inging hooks left and right. The fight

because John Mills, usually in uniform perkins tries to wrest from the and tight corners makes a cum- burly

Middleton information plete turnabout, and is here as

OCCLITS

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endless

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JOHN MILLS

CECIL PARKER

ITS GREAT TO

BE

am

that Hive

YOUNG

A picture your heart will remember long after your eyes have forgot.

Frum then on you have every- thing including n are at sea,

Thie

Aims brings back Rita Hayworth who has been absent

Kelly is one of the most vor- from the screen for almost

site and perfectly trained dog three years The role, that of about his gunilghter father, 14 curly-readed schoolmaster, stars ever seen on the screen, a disillusioned femme fatale, Is There is quite 2 romantic better, 1 should imagine, at get- He goes through a perfect choice for this red- story concerning the only ling top C on his trumpel than array of show-stopping

that would be dificult even for feminine role in the film, Elaine explaining the foreign policy of

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heavy-stod Alken, former student at New Castlereagh,

back to the dog, but it's alugging action, you will enjoy, York's famous Actors -Studio,

kind of picture. If you this fim which demands only had been less than a week in

clozs. that you sit back in your seat Los Angeles on her Brat trip while Mitchum and Lemmon Weat, when she captured this pack a ilfetime of petion, into ten part in "The Lonely Man.” In its Thousand feel of film.

Photographed on location in th:0 Caribbean island's Trinidad and Tobago, " Down Below" has rome “vur staming vistas of tropical splendour and beauty which All the wide are of the Cinema scope screen with the sunlight of the Caribbean Sea.

Dat Calypso

rhymes in the stars' honour.

Unanswered

ZERİNE DIESER 12

BOGGENY AMOMILET

With the Angel Hill Grammar School Kids

...a splendid performance and is supported by

a talented young cast which must captivate ovory audience with their lighthearted xest and galoty," S.C.M.P.

ts Cecil Parker every bad bead- way, that is some achievement, boy's nightmare of a

notice the chief master, and he does just what a for you will scene is a tender, highly headmaster of his type would mollenal sequence in which she do; he sits 01 the popular has the difficult task of telling teacher, and threatens to ruin young Perkins, to whom she is the school band by donying obviously attracted, that she is them

funds for buying the Island In The Sun: obligated to marry his father, necessary instruments.

I thought Island In The As you may have guessed, there The story is so unsophisticat- is a theme song, and would you ed that it could be thought out Sun" would play to big SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12:00-REDUCED ADMISSION

rate the believe it? It's

still smarting business, at any called "The by a schoolboy Lonely Man.”

from six of the best, yet the Roxy and the Broadway zcript ta so clever that it re have decided to

run this grinded me of the days when I ured to howl at the preposterous picture over a second week- Will Hay and his impossible end. I have little to add to class

the excellent critique that appeared on this page last week, but there are two points I should like to make merely to see whether you

Riot Of Fun

During the location Alming in Trinidad on “Firs Down Below" now showing at the Queen's and Alhambra, the West Indian calypso singers following the It's Great To Be Young: Alas unit around the Laland, Well, stun me with a tborked overtime comporing toffee-apple. Here's a highly Every time one of them saw a respectable British Co-ed member of the cast a verse i Grammar School, with John his or her hanour was quickly Mills us

a genial history made up and song with a hand stretched out for the "pan-of“. A typical cæuimple made use of Robert Mitchum's with the ladies: citlogised him with:

reputation

ત singer

"Robert Mitchum, with Lho

Indies you are nifix,

So be generous Man, and

That

hand over fifty."

that world he

$80

Hongkong.

Jack Lemmon whose hobby is writing song lyrics created a piece of amusement when ac- costed by a singer who chanted: "Jack Lemmon is a star with

horn of plenty, The least he can do is hand

over twenty."

Paean Of Praise

The actor promptly replied in

song:

"Thanks a lot but ag loud as

you boiler,

The most you'll get is a single

dollar."

Rita Hayworth's ardent song admirers were leas IRCTCERATI). In fact a couple of them, Mighty Spire" and "Lord Superior", wrole a pacan of Your next Suit or Topcoat praise to her beauty.

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A Mild Addiet.

to

The Lonely Man:

I gave

up going Western when no longer qualified for the penny-rush, that is until I saw films of the quality of "Shane". Since then, I have become a mild nddict. The Lonely Man," now showing at the King's and Princess, is not a film that exhausted all Hollywood's superlatives, yet it has all the qualities that have put Westerns back in the front rank of entertain- ment films.

Fugged Jack Palance, famed for hiz portrayal of the in venomous hired gumen *Shane," which won him an Academy Award nomination, Is the lonely man of the tile. Anthony Perkins,

for his outstanding nominco work in "Friendly Pressssion” 1 Floors soulthe yauE DOW who has harbored hatred for Believing him to 38

Oscar

New Films

At A. Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "I's Great To Be Young." British Technicolour comedy. John Mills and Crell Parktr. KING'S AND PRINCESS: "The Lonely Mark" Vista Vision outdoor drama, Jack Palance and Anthony Perkins, METROPOLE and STAR: "Kelly and Me." A dog, a boy, and a girl. Kelly and Van Johnson. QUEEN'S AND ALHAM

BRA: "Fire Down Be Tow

Technicolour,

Spontaneous combustion

calypso-land. Hayworth, Robert Mit- chium, and Jack Lemmon, ROXY and BROADWA

"Island In The

Sun." True love and the other thing under the hot Caribbean sunshine, Joan Fontaine, HAITY Bela- fonte, Dorothy Dand- rldg¤; › Joan Collins, Michael Bennie, James Ma 2011.

COMING

HOOVER And: LIBERTY:

"The Living Idol," Love and reincarnation. Slovo Forrest, Lillane Monte- vecchi, James Robertson- Justior. KING'S AND PRINCESS:

Animal Farm." A our- toon

version of Goorge Orwell's animallegory." METROPOLE and STAR: “Foreign Intrigue," Cloak alid dagger thriller. Robert Mehua. QUEEN'S AND ALIAM. BRA: "Phantom of the Buo Morgue," Edgar

Poe's Allan

shocker. KAM

Makien. Clande Dauphin, Patrici Biodina, Steve Forrest, ROXY, and BROADWAY: “An Affair To Romem- ber." Romaníto comedy. Cary Grant and Deborah Kort.

Cyril Frankel's direction keeps the pace at a Uvely speed and Clibert Taylor has done a fise job with the colour camera,

If you want to know where the music really comes from, the hit-parade theme song is agree or not. sung by Ruby Murray, white

My first is, don't you think Humphrey Miticton and is that John Williams steals c boys help out on the jazz side. pleture? I mean from an acting If you like more serious musie, point of view. When he dis- Then here is an opportunity to cussed Dostoyevsky's Crime and hear the London Schools Sy Punishment with the wilting phoay Orchestra play the Mason, smashing right through classics,

hia pompous facade, then, alrify: "I'll send it (the book) over some time," or something like that, I've seen a small part steal a picture before, but never better.

Well, it's all a lot of cheery nonsense, and maybe It's the mood I'm in, but somehow I feet we could all do with a bit of cheery nonsense. So there you are, John Mills leading a slap- happy, cheerful, laughing team, it: a colourful romp of fun you can take the whole family to see at the Hoover or the Liberty,

Dog Lovers

Kolly And Me:

I don't think you had better follow me too closely

The second point, from rather a lofty angle, Good picture that it is, did you feel it lacked completeness, as do all works that pose a problem and leave I unanswered? I am not for one moment pretending there is an answer that I could even blat at, but, even so, I am irritated by people like Alec Waugh who ask me questions I can't answer, and they don't try to answer,

ROXY & BROADWAY!

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ISLAND

IN THE SUN

Jan MASON Jon FONTAINE-Dorothy DANDRIDGE Joan COLLINS •Michael RENNIE

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Lana Turner in "BETRAYED"

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