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KING'S ✩ PRINCESS

TO-DAY

THE STORY OF NEW YORK'S FABULOUS SON!

TEENECOLO

VISTA VISION

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a beautiful qult

BEAU JAMES

„The Story of Tuludose, trany. Wals A Skisporeda Man agil

BOB HOPE VERA MILES

PAUL DOUGLAS

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EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW 11.00 A.M.

M-G-M. presents

"TOM & JERRY'''

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Admission:

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$1.00, $1.50

SPECIAL MATINEE To-morrow at 12.20 p.m.

Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak in "THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM"

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

PRINCESS

SPECIAL MATINEE To-morrow at 12.10 p.m.

Shree Ranjit Movietone presents NARGIS & RAJKAPOOR in

"PAPI"

Co-starring Dulhari, Kailash, Maruthi, Ramesh Thakur, Amar Nath & Buta Ram Sarma

Directed by Chandulal Shah

Songs by Raja Mohdi Ali Khan & Hasrat Jaipuri Music by S. Mahindar

Rollicking Comedy - Mirthful Music - Fascinating Drama

This picturo is specially withhold for a repeat presentation due to Typhoon Gloria

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STAR THEATRE METROPOLE

SHOWING

TO-DAY

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

The True and Wonderful Story of COL. DEAN HESS.

CLERGYMAN TURNED FIGHTER PILOT!

ROCK HUDSON

BATTLE HYMIN

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FILMS

Manuela

Now "Manuela" is a British film to rave about. It is

Supporting parts аго also well played. For instance, tho First Mate, a nasty sanctl- monious Welshman who ostensibly hates all those

a film you can put along- irregularities of the Captain side any film that has come our way

And Pedro Armondatiž, bald- headed, lustful, yet kind of lately. gentie in a brutish manner. Right from the opening All good confident costing. shot, it is made with the confidence of men who know what they are about, what they want, I will and how to get it. tell you why it is a good film.

1

It

I've never said it before, but I say it now. Go and see this picture, then see it again,

one that is going to put British pictures on the map.

Prosaic

"Mamiela" how on show at The Beach the Roxy and Broadway is

alstributed International Film

by Twentieth Century Fox. It at produced

Now

LTHOUGH "The Beach" by Ivan Toxwell A is an Italian film, it is the authoritative who gives it touch, as I have raid, from the French in theme; in fact it the master is the theme so dear to the word go.

Quarter geniuses, touch is in putting Martinelli Latin

I 'epater le bourgeois,' Trevor apposite

Howard,

It is mention that because it is an merely another version of Haportant point. Where British

"Boule do whor

Sulf" and producers fall down la they try 10 Inject the Latin "Madame Tellier"; the vir

using someone like tuous harlot and the evil Belinda Lee Lo simulate Latin respectable people. passion.

touch by

Foxwell has artistic courage, Geene you can see that every

Is in his mind before he shoots

good film is Trevor ile gives the finest performance of his career as the captain of in old bucket of a ship that should have sunk years ago.

(75%

"The Beach", now showing at the Queen's, and Alhambra does not rely on any purple patches, in fact it is ʼn prosale 11, and when it is taken, tittle fim, but

incidental to The taken

wants it. as he

that is some very fine acting, for it being a second reason

It is also a vindictive and Howard.

human Cynical comment

in Ita closing nature which

to resolve the moments sele problem. It has posed,

hla That man, in spite high flown phrases, his starry- eyed Idealison, bos ideais no The deeper than his pocket. producer says "You don't be- Hleve it? Then I'll prove 15," That

the clever touch. He Coren't get the idealist to walk the promenade with Martine Carol, he chooses a millionaire,

Full Of Gin

me of one or

call to

As I see the part, he reminds two sea-going types who drop in locally every now and again. Chaps who ports that don't exist, Chaps who've been saliing longer than the Flying Dutch- thāt. Chaps never at home on shore, and alive only when they are at sen again. Such is Howard, a middle-aged marred mariner, with gin washing up to his back teeth. A morose, melancholy, moping man, until Elsa Martinelli appears on his | ship as a customer who bas forgone the convention of paying her fare.

lover,

The

Junailc, the and the poet

наго

of Imagination all compact," But what when the lover is the kind of

Howard MATI portrays Brooding upon these things, the fantastic dreams a lover peoples in his loneliness. And the ship sails on through the darkness.

for

Elsa

of

Of course the crowd salutes the millionaire, and the gentle harlot hanging on to his arm, Then you get it. The wicked old man whom we know Al- ready to be beyond the tempta- tion of the flesh, Bay's Martine; "It is elot us they are greeting, it's the money,"

to

There are some lovely shots to compensate for the Blow build-up of the sim, neverthe- less, It's rather like one of those books you can reach from the shelf and dip inta every now and again.

In spite of the alry manner in which the flim unfolds,

leave does

you wondering. "Are we still too ready to cast the Arst stone?" The film says "Yes," I should say it leaves too much unsaid to be as con- vincing as all that.

Pretty Good

it

CURRENT & COMING

by ANTHONY ANTHONY FULLER

New Films

At

A Glance

SHOWING

KING'S

PRINCESS: "BEAU JAMES": Bob Hope portrays Walker, Die

Jimmy Night

Mayor of New York. QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "THE BEACH"; Martine Carol in a sophisticated roir 4 'Miml' who tries to take a respect- able holiday 'by the sta. ROXY & BROADWAY: "MANUELA": Trevor Howard and Elsa Mar- inclu in an Ivan Fox- well production of a 'must not mirs It' British

here. Miss Koshi stepped right from the screen, Into the hearts of the audience as she shepherded her walls along

those death-filled roads of Korea.

Rock Hudson at the moment of decision when he felt God could better use him as a good pilot rather than an Indifferent parson.

A scene shot from the cockpit of a fighter when Rock gets on enemy plane in his sights.

The children

the from orphanage who take part in the film, and in particular one chubby little fellow who just doesn't act, but relives thoso awful moments of joy and terror, when death swept down from the Korean skies.

The story is perfectly true, and I recommend it to all who inve in perhaps a lesser senso then Colonel Hess, had to So make a similar decision. many of our generation have had to Ince that awful con- tradiction, whether it be better to be passive in the face of evil, or should one go out to Baht I with its own weapons? There is only one jarring point, and again it Is the director's bid to capture your heart from the opening shol. That lavleble chofe that sings in close harmony. It's played out now, and such a Budion

worthy picture needs no saccharine to sweeten is message LIBERTY:

plexed humanity,

A

STAR & METROPOLE: Battle Hymn The true story of Colonel Dean Hem who found a trucr vocation Aahler pillot than да д parson. Rock and Antia Kashf. HOOVER

"THIS COULD BE THE NIGHT": A

hard-up

school-tencher makes an honest supplementary allowance in a right- club. Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, and An- thony Franclosa,

COMING

24

KING'S

PRINCESS! "War and Peace": A rc- issue of Tolstoy's Classic, QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "ilellest of the Navy"; A U.S. Navy submarine exploit in the mine. Infented depthe off Japan Ronald Reagan, ROXY

BROADWAY: Three Faces of Eye" The true story of woman possessed by three different personal- tiles,

**The

STAR & METROPOLE: "The Killlng": A cang zet *krize happy.' HOOVER & LIBERTY: Vintage"; Two brothers, fugitives from the law, who stumble Into a French vineyard.

many

arc

to per-

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

• TO-DAY.

It's Gay and Refreshing with a Saucy Touch!

THE

BEACH

Starring

FIN COLOR

MARTINE CAROL

with

RAF VALLONE

FACTS OF LIFE EXPOSED

for THE FIRST TIME.

SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS QUEEN'S at 11.30 a.m. 20th Century Fox presents "THREE COINS IN A FOUNTAIN" Starring

Greasy Slope Clifton Webb Jean Peters

Beau James

HE "Roaring Twenties"

THE

have already become a legend. I will leave it there because a picture yet to be shown here will give me an opportunity to write more to the point of a gencration that sot the Western world sliding down the greasy slope to decadence.

Here's New York of the Middle Twenties, as portrayed In "Beau James", Para- mount's Vista Vision Techni- colour reconstruction of an event in the Hfe of New York's playboy "Night-Mayor" Jimmy Walker, now showing at the King's and Princess.

Out B this crazy world drunk with paper wealth rose the fantastic situation displayed i thin film.

Bob Hope takes the part of where 50

oddly mixed many Walker, the Mayor of characters are gathered under New York who ran the big city from al ringside seat of the the roof of the Tonle Club.

Aport from Jean Summons Central Park Casino. and Paul Douglas, there

I am terribly interested in Anthony Franclosa, and Juku

the the period and the templation Wilson, part onnier of

to discuss it rather than the torel singer

film. My reason is, the Westere: respectively.

world lost something then Those who wonder where Zaau which it has never recovered.

This Could Be The Night night-club,

Back at

לריים

an Cx-

sub-

And EO, 08 middle-aged Infatuation must, Captain Howard ruins his nautical reputation, neglects his duties as any fool-lover, and loses his ship. What a bit of acting. The third reason Is Martinelli. She is seventeen- year-old alley cat of some TEAN Siromons finds yet pitts had got to can see her in However, back to the film, South American port, She is JEA

in this this film og n landlady solicitous There were glants in those days, like a homing-pigeon yearning another role

Ruth, and Dempsey, Babe nover M-G-M funny, "This Could of Jean Simmons' welfare. a home she has

the night-club, you Lindbergh. Baby-faced uppers this be the Night" now showing get as crazy a set of habitues looked on seen. Smuggled aboard

while their crazy craft by Mario tho

at the Hoover and Liberty as you could wish to find. A human escorts shot down their engineer (Pedro Armendariz) who regarda her us his hobby This time, she is a school strip-tease artist who yearns bootlegging rivals in cold blood. for the voyage, she is taken teacher who becomes a part- to cook; her mother,

I have time secretary in a night wis nas other ambitions job, everyone had a racket. burlesque queen (Joan Blon- Crime did pay, and none had over by the captain.

for her, Leon, a temperamental The picture js faithful to chef plus the usual crowd of events as they occurred. Starred columnists, playboys and real along with Hope is Vera Miles as the show girl for whoin he Jean Simmons, д school- ventured his political life. Paul teacher, hand-up of course, en Dougins again, this time na D ters this crazy world in order Tammany politician who thought to supplement her income. The he had the Mayor in his pocket. fun starts when everyone feels Alexis Smith who plays the called upon to prolect her part of Hope's loyal but estrang from the seamy-side of things. ed wife, And Darren McGavin The twist is, not only con as tho stubbornly honest Jean Simmons-take care of her secretary who warned Hope self, but most of her associates that he wouldn't get away with as well.

all the Line..

not seen Miss Martinelli before, club to Paul Douglas, a not that I can recall, but her business in this picture is tough ex-gangster. love, I should say the 18 The laughs in this movie

arrive from Buch a situation bad'uns, extremely necomplished.

ROX Y & BROADWAY,

SHOWING TO-DAY ★

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

Sometimes as gentle as a kitten...

sometimes as savage as a tiger .

that was Manuela!

TREVOR PEDRO VAAS HERA HOWARD ARMENDARIZ MARICELI

Manuela

• WIELER WIGS bey den til han Topat

GHY KAMILTON ITAM FOXWELL

BATION LOW chad.

Released by Twentieth Century-Fox

Distributed by LION INTERNATIONAL FILMS LTD.

- TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW ROXY: At 12.00 Noon ||· BROADWAY: AF 12.30 p.m. 20th Century Fox presents in CinemaScope & Color "GOOD MORNING, MISS DOVEP' Starring: Jennifer JONES ■ Robert STACK At Reduced Prices

BROADWAY: To-morrow Special Morning Shöner At 11.00 am. M.G.M. TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prions

It

good show all A pretty round, and if you compare with the current shows, will see it adds to the varity of the week.

True Story

Battle Hymn

What interested me was to find Walter Winchell who knew you Broadway so welt the narrator of this apley fantastic place of crazy history. My description of the period is taken from Scoli Filzgerald.

THINK I had better warn you not to be put off by the title "Battlo Hymm," now showing at the Star and Metropole. If you follow this colunin, you will have gathered, that war pictures as such receive very little sympathy from mo. But this one is dif ferent. The battleground is the cout of a man,

and the events of the Korean Wer are secondary to the | spiritual struggle. 4.

This Universal-International Tim is beautifully made in Technicolour and Cinemašcopa, und the word that springs into the mind concerning itm direction is 'sensitive."

There is a beautiful perform- atos from Anna Kashi as the stirk who undertook, thé, charge of the stranded war orphans. One rarely vibes the word Intelligence when meeting "PL

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with the Beautiful FI".

Fine leathers used Cor flexibility and long-w¢AX

Break-proof H

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In Cinemascopo--Technicolor

| ALHAMBRA at 11,00 a.m.

Paramount presents

"THAT'S MY BOY" Starring

Dean Martin Jerry Lewis

AT REDUCED PRICES

HOOVER LIBERTY

CALAKEWAY BAY^ "IL-7283)

KOWLOON TEL BOLAK HORAS

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 P.M.

Sizzling fun, Excitement and hot Romance!

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PRETTY-BUT-BROKE SCHOOL TEACHER MIXED UP WITH MOBSTERS!

MIG-M presenta, IA CINEMASCOPE

JEAN

PAUL

ANTHONY.

SIMMONS DOUGLAS FRANCIOSA

THIS COULD BE THE NIGHT

SPECIAL SUNDAY MATINEE

HOOVER at 12.00 Noon Sterling Hayden

Anna Maria Alberghett! "THE LAST COMMAND" *Trucolor

REDUCED ADMISSION LIBERTY at 12:30 pm. Tony Curtis Piper Laurie in "SON OF ALI BABA" Technicolor

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To-day: 2.30, 520, 7.30 & 945 || -- SHOWING TO-DAY —

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ROBERT MITCHUM

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PASHA SHOES

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