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KING'S ★ PRINCESS

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GRAND OPENING TO-DAY

The NEW

LOOK IN MUSICALE:

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Audrey Hepburn Autaire

When Audroy Rocke Everybody

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Funny Face

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EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW KING'S at 11.05 a.m. PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m.

20th Confury-Fox presant

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957.

FILMS

Silk Stockings:

"Silk Stockings" is still running at the Hoover and Liberty Theatres. Try and got a laugh' out of that. If you can't, there is still an opportunity to squirm with mirth as that ludicrous trio

forward step

to sing "Siberia." It is not often I go to see a picture twice, but the second time I con- centrated on Peter Lorro. Just watch his expression,

He can do more with a flick of his hands, or the flutter of on eyelid than most actors can with four pages of dialogue,

not Then is

Cyd Charisse charming in that sophisticated halict number пя she dances

round the suite uncovering all thoce pretty termining delights forbidden by the puritan code of Moscow?

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Moccow

VARIETY PROGRAMME

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

PRINCESS

SPECIAL MATINEE

TO-MORROW at 12.30 p.m.

Edward C. Robinson & George Raft in a Kill-or-be-killed Adventure in Violence →→

“A BULLET FOR JOEY" with Audrey Tottor - Rolozsed thru United Artists AT REDUCED PRICES

- MONDAY at 12.30 p.m. "BLACkboard junGLE"

KING'S

air - Conditioned ·

TO-MORROW AT 12.10 P.M.

MINERVA Movietone presents an Indian Picture SOHRAB MODI in

“RAJ HATH”

Also Starring Madhubala, Pradeep Kumar,

lhas, Karmo. Murad and others Produced and Directed by SOHRAB MODI BOOK YOUR SEATS EARLY!

ROXY & BROADWAY

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY

Please note chango of times: AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M. Tremendous Applause Won! Venice International Film Festival TOP PRIZE

Critics Hailed As Strong Candidate

The Motion Picture That Crosses A New Boundary

In Screen Entertainment!.

20th Century Fox presents

A HATFUL OF RAIN

ROXY:

CINEMASCOPE

EVA MARIE SAINT

DON MURRAY

ANTHONY FRANCIOSA

LLOYD NOLAN

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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FULLER

Fred Astaire aprays the Iron Curtain represented by Cud Charisse in "Silk Stockings", tohich is now showing at

based upon

by

Hoover and Liberty.

and'

pink linings; pink gloves, pink pumps: pink handbags; cosmetics galore.

Reading rough what I've written, neo I've made a thing of shreds and patches. Well, that's what this im l. It's n happy-go-lucky plot stringing together all these gay dances and enchanting secnes, with some pretty good neting thrown in.

I'ct beller mention Kay Thompson before I clone. She makes an I-bomb entrance into ms. Tired of coaching others for their parts, she rebelled, be- came overnight an entertainer, authoress, and business woman. She shows Hollywood that any- thing they can do, she can

better.

do

about

I haven't said much Astaire, for there isn't anything I can add to all I've said before. Ife is his own superb self in this musical, .whose enchanting romantle theme glamorous fashions, hounting melodies,

to be told that it is an authentle wooed to the latest Alm tech- and rollicking frolles will send factual nique because the City of you out into the street lighting social Paris forma a gigantic backdrop your cigarette on a star. untrue, for the Alm. Both well known old and tekiom scen locales play a which role, and going along with it aro

Classical

And what about having un- other look at the apartment in creation

where the carefree evidence gleaned spontaneous burst of high workers, I hope that is

The especially when I spirits is interrupted by bouse fuchrer; the Polen represents the situation allence which salutes his passage exists in thousand of US homes, some of the George and tra il Met By Moonlight:

"I Met by Moonlight" theme hos in- Gershwin songs. Dope as from one room to another, ac-

I think I'd better, mention a now showing at the Queen's companied by the dry drone of crested us for ten decades, and

gospel has spawned among the pages special effect that might set a and Alhambra, might well reading from the

De Quincey new pattern in film technique. according to Lenin; the flare up of literature since directly his back is turned. opened it up to us in his cun- This is a striking unorthodox open in classical tradition:

In the midst of the dark sea And then there is Fred Astaire., fersions. Sherlock Holmes used flashing of the screen from one

com- is a land called Crete, and fair to retire after a strenuous case, colour to another as the

the optically and fertile surrounded by The rhythm

Thus the with wavey,"

a

Inhumanity

Men In War:

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA 14:50 0.15;7.20 & 9.10 p.m. 4.30, 5.30, 7.56 & 930 pm.

SHOWING TO-DAY

One of the War's most dashing feats- they kidnapped a General under the nosa of bla aray

THE KÁRI ORGANjazidi bennem

A POKRAJI POVSTA & EVER PREIMMOBLE PRODOČTION

DIRK BOGARDE

ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT

From the Deshan Diet By Pisonligh" by W. Staley Mom

MARIUS GORING · DAVID OXLEY

VISTAVISION CYRIL CUSACK

SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS QUEEN'S:-EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M. "ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT" ALHAMBRA: AT 11.00 A.M.

20th Century-Fox prosents Marilyn MONROE

Robert MITCHUM in "RIVER OF NO RETURN" CinemaScope -Technicolor

for

10 in mare, the

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Everything Pink

to the soothing puncture of a plementary uos are

Odyssey, needle. But there was a touch removed. of decadent romance - about all which the screen changes colour Book XIX. I don't quite know Alm that that. Not so "A Haiful of also helps to set the pace for how to set about a main".

certain sequences in the Paris- relates an incident of the war in the Aegean Sea that might well have found itself in

admit Odyssey. I had better

about that I don't read books the War, and I are films about only when I have to.

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you literary exploration from struggle to shout yourself out

I am not qualified to discuss terpsichorean fantastic flomer through to Shake of, only to find yourself in an-

wa Ed- other, ten times as horrible. It the spare, and Tolstoy to

is as authentie as a madman's gyrations which in their

But this is different. It tells muxl Blunden. 11. has

dream; it is the imagination of interpret the mood of the film,

of "mad' dog likert were of a true lodestone proved no less a

Allan Poe but two dances a depraved Edzar

Hepburn Englishman" escapade that sent But to the film writers and rendered a hundred times more rendition by Audrey

the Cretan morale soarlag. directors. Don't moralise horrible, because, they say, it is of a romantic ballad, and

mad behop dance which marks you've probably read the book her evolution from blue of the same title by W. Stanley about this because it is you,

stocking to wo: famed model, Moss Personally. I think the box office client who

I've been fol always leave title singularly npt, for pays to keep this kind

conception is to blame.

out the engross details of the whole thing in its film in production.

Perhaps one day we shall have weird and wonderful creations and execution was a stroke of the the women wear in these kind Midsummer madness; yet one of But then I remember my a picture symbolising all

must admit I those

that els You ex- of films, Again

things generation flocked to see such decent chaps who

head in air" and masterpieces as "What Price perienced that horror and then am at a loss. Sometimes I think Johnny

Quiet Glory?", "All

decent chaps. these bits are just put in to give pretty bucked to be a member on the come back slili

has Don the men a laugh.

of the mad race of Englishinen, Western Front" while the very "A fatful of 'Rain"

After a job, Best Armistice Day had fallen Murrny without

However, I do know the name

Effective only some ten years behind or serving in Korea, where he of Edith Hend because

picked

the up

delights of seems to have been designing

been The year 1944 wos one we This current release, "aten in

morphine while undergoing costumes as long as I've

for, after War" takes us to Koren to deal treatment.

Koing to the movies. I do not shall all remember, with the latest of man's or- His wife who is expecting a know the name of de Givenchy. being cornered on the ropes, we

on feminine ppet a punch, and began ganised inhumanity to man, and baby is unable to understand his but I am it is showing at the Metropole hellish mood which take him authority I cannot dispute, that dish Ji out for a change.

dress same, year, the island or Cretc and Star Theatres.

out into the night, a hag-racked he is a famous Parisian

one who designer. During this part of saw one of the most daring and

exploits The overworked adjectives of recluse. The only

took SUNDAY 13 Murray's the film, the screen overflows effective this picture and "realistic" and does understand "Authentic". Realistic it 1, Jonathan-like brother (Anthony with pink; pink rainconts with place durlug the war.

During, because German who backs his with the added thrill that none Francioza)

general was kidnapped prae- tically in his own backyard, as we say. And only a handful of men went after him, It was effective bermuse the incident, with

casual fls air of master-stroke, did so much heighten morale in Crete,

50.

of the stuff thrown about on the savings on Murray's dope-shot

will touch you. How promise to reform.

authentic it in, I cannot say, but

You will have lo admit that

it is not improbable that a this Aim has strength. It

mak

the

the fuses to compremise with sergeant should, to quote

sentiment that can caption, hate the guis of the nauding

has Lieutenant. But to me it shows ruin such a theme. It something fundamentally wrong Tennessee Williams touch, in about the whole system of that it plays tragedy with all disasier of a discipline.

Cat-spitting

Robert

Ryon

the inevitable Greck drama.

Lho

part

Murray portrays the well because he refuses to over- portrays part of Lieutenant Denson, and play; that is where it gets you; superiority of Aldo Ray fills the role of Stair that perverted Sergeant Montana. The theme living in a drug ridden world Is a cat-spitting hatred mutually where only the initiates form a two circle closed to those who refuse reciprocated

Initiation ceremony of the

heroes on the

in

of

by these

battlefelds Korea. A thing for which ordeal by needle, sniff, or taste, Eva Marie Saint who seems will give this pleture credit that it discards the cilches of lo rising to fame on the wings these refought battles repro- duced at Hollywood.

of violence and horror gives a compassionate performance as a who will neecpt the woman There is no sadistic sergeant who inflicts physical and mental worst rather than hope in un- torture on a sensitive conscript. certainty. There is no wise-cracking kid

So, as I have said, the Alm

At 12.00 Noon BROADWAY: At 12.15 p.m. who jokes while his platoon is ends only in that the

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"THE TALL MEN”

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CURUCU

reel 19

being blasted to bits. There is finished. The next reel is never no let me like a hero fall" shown as the drug disintegrates Type; no officer sacriacing his this thing that was once a man.

platoon on the altar of pro- Great Musical

mation; and

по best of all, Hollywood Florence Nightingale stepping straight from

beauty Funny Face:

parlour onto a blood drenchet They used to say that all Dattlefield.

So if you like war from the good Americans go to Paris comfort of an upholstered scat, when they die, but Fred this is your picture. should Astaire seems to be making advise all real soldiers not to go certain; Funny Face, now berserk

seca Benson

when he

huri a cascade of Silver Stars to showing at the King's and the herale defenders. It might Princess is another great scem unusual to see an officer musical largely filmed in going about with a pocket full Paris.

Old timers will remember the of decorations to distribute ud

bitum, but other days, other show that stopped the London

SHOWING TO-DAY DYS

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

9.30 P.M.

DEEP INTO THE AFRICAN JUNGLES...

Actually Shed

In the

CORNEL WHEL

to: BLID

140 GENN

BEYOND MOMBASA

BEAST” AMAZON

JOAN BROMFIED BEVERLY GARLAND

TO-MORROW

Tony Curtis & Martha Hyer

in

"MR. CORY"

in Technicolor.

Unfinished

traffic, but this film has little In common, save the same tie. Audrey Hepburn steps into the role originally played by Adole Astaire, but the story is different.

The title role has eith Audrey Hepburn portraying a Green- wich Village blue-looking who

very

A Hatful Of Rain:

"A Hatful of Rain" now showing at the Roxy and Broadway Theatres is unfinished symphony of is transformed into a world- dope, and if the last move famed model by glamour photo

written in it grapher Fred Astaire. I think ment was

when you see it, you will ogroo would be a dismal theme that this part had to come

Hepburn's written in a minor key. 1 Audrey

way. Her mean that. I think if we carly ballet training and Lon- could see the end of the don musical stage background

road, wo should have an

American version of one

foreshadowed the part

Technique Wooed

of those old Russian stories

"Funny Face" is so spectacu- that used to fade out with larly produced and uniquely

TOMORROW SPECIAL, SHOW the whole family looking photographed that it is hard to

Ai: 12:30 pm

Brigitte Bardot

OMADEMOISELLE FIGALLE”

know where to begin telling you forward to a lifetime of about it. it is aimed in Vista- misery and despair.

It is a hopeless and depressing theme, and I am rather shocked

Viaton techniques and a bold now use of Technicolour. You might say it in stage technique

told

she

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Funny Face". Ameri- Fred Paris. cans in Astaire and Audrey Hepburn.

STAR and METROPOLE: "Men in Way'. A pri- vato fend in a pobile

Robert Ryan

war.

Aldo Ray,

and

that

A

ON THE Bio ScreEN!

M-0-ld prosta AN ARTHUR FREED PRODUCTION ring

FRED ASTAIRE CYD CHARISSE Silk Stockings

JANIS PAIGE PETER LORRE

ChasmaScope. METROCOLOR

to The

39

10

we

You'll see the film open after all the business of putting the plan over is inished, and cune in as Captain "Bill" Moss (David Oxley) sails from Lybia escorted by a group of partisans, to join his friend Major "Paddy" Leigh-Fermor (Dirk Bogartie), Specfal Service Oncer, on. enemy occupled

Crete.

of

Paddy, a debonair blent poet and soldier, has already become something of a legend

where on the island,

hu is popularly known as "Philldem". (I think you'd translate that "the friend".

QUEEN'S and ALHAM- You'll Laugh

BRA:

by A daring Moonlight",

'44. Creic escapade In Dirk Bogarde, Marius David

Met "Ill

and

Goring. Cusack.

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Silk Blocklogs". Songs and danoc, both sides of Fred Die Iron Curtain, Astaire Charlane.

and Cyd

ROXY and BROADWAY:

A Hatful of Rain". grim episode of dope.

and Don Murray

Eva

Marle Saint

COMING

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Navy Wife". The riot- ous life of a Navy wife in the land of Gelahs riris. Joan Bennet and Gary Merrill. STAR and METROPOLE: "True as a Turile". Pine- wood's hilarious comedy of life on a vintage yacht. Keith Michell and Elvi Hale, QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "The Prince and the Show Girl". A tale of merry not so old Eng- land. Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monron, HOOVER and LIBERTY:"

“Dan Glory". A Western In 1ho "Shane" olun. Stewart Grainger and Rhonda Fleming,

ROXY and BROADWAY:

A

to Bentmber". soniimentál Journby with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.

1

You see some heart-in-mouth landing scenes, and then meeting with the local partisans. And, if you know the lype, and the desert was full of them. you'll laugh when Paddy turny up elaborately dressed Cretan Chleftain.

as a

Another scene which

is as historical as it is hysterical, is when Paddy

Into Kots seek the

CO- Herakleion to operation of another partisan, a ritatist of that town. "Caught In the surgery. Paddy tries to bluff his way out, but doesn't succeed. Then follows that grim humour ns the German soldiers have to be quietened by

a quite unorthodox anaesthetic.

The German Commanding Officer, General Karl Krelpo

REDUCED ADMISSION SPECIAL MATINEE: LIBERTY THEATRE AT 12.00 NOON Errol Flynn in "THE DARK AVENGER"

AIR CONDITIONED

STAR THEATRE METROPOLE

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

THE PART OF THE MILITARY MACHINE THAT BLEEDS!

ROBERT RYAN..

The LIEUTENANT

who'd tand

Als men

anywhere

ALDO RAY.

The SERGEANT

who'd fallow his

Rel

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lo grieven

MENNAR

Released the United Artists

STAR: 5 Shows To-morrow & an Mon., Sept. 9th

METROPOLE: 5.Shows To-morrow Extra Performance of "MEN IN WAR" At 12.30 p.m.

Star:

TO-MORROW SPECIAL MORNING SHOW

At 11.00 mm1.. METROPOLE: At 11.00-a.m, M.G.M. TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

CA 152

CONDITIONED

(Marius Goring) is captured, SHOWING TO-DAY SIMULTANEOUSLY

TO-DAY AT 2,30,- 5.80 7.30 and 9.30. P.M.

nerve- and then begins th racking trek to get him out.

A typically English bit is the following. The operation, now all successfully accomplished, that remains to do is to top out the morse signül. They've got the set all right, but no one knows how to use. It. Watch the General's face as he ex- presses exasperation at being caught by a crowd of botching blunderers,

где

The general uses his wits, but he finds these amateurs are not such amateurs as he suUPPOSÉS,

You don't need

to tell for you that the part is made Marius Goring, nor that Dirk Bogare Just laps it up. Zahari (Adeeb Assaly) and George (Wolto Morris) team up well as the partisans.

All I want to add is, I wish the Rank Organization had paid the extra money, and let us oce thls in colour.

WIFE

206 CENTURY-FOR

AGAN COLLINE RICHARD BURTON-BABIL SYDNEY-CY GRANT

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30)

"KING'S THIER!!. M-G-M- Fictain

Columbia Picture “ROCK AROUND THE

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