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KING'S - PRINCESS SHOWING TO-DAY

3 SHOWS AT 2.00, 5.30 & 9.00 P.M.

AT. REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES!

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VISTAVISION

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19,

CURRENT & COMING

by

FILMS ANTHONY FULLER

The Vintage

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SPECIAL MATINEES TO-MORROW

At 11.00 a.m.

(All At Reduced Prices)

M-G-M prosent an Entirely Different Programme of TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

with "TOM & JERRY” Etc. Etc.

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KING'S at 12.10 p.m. The Marx Bres, in "A NIGHT AT THE OPERA"

PRINCESS at 12.20 p.m. Clayton Moore in "THE LONE RANGER" in WarnerColor

SPECIAL HOLIDAY MATINEE:

MONDAY, OCT. 21 M-G-M present Deborah Charles

KERR LAUGHTON in

KING'S at 11.30 p.m. Jean

Stowort SIMMONS • GRANGER

"YOUNG

BESS"

PRINCESS at 11.30 a.m, M-G-M's All-time Great! Textbook Story for 1956 MK_School-Leaving Certificate Examination English Languago Paper 4:

"DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE" Starring Spencer Ingrid

BERGMAN

TRACY

•

Lana TURNER

ROXY & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

Last of the Great Mohicans ... First of the Great Pioneers!

THE DEERSLAYER

Starring: Lox BARKER •

→

CINEMASCOPE

Color

By De Late

Rita MORENO Forrest TUCKER • Cathy O'DONNELL

+++++++++

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: At 12.00 Noon

20th Century-Fox

-presents

"A IDA" in Technicolor Starring: Sophia LOREN

Lois MAXWELL At Reduced Prices

•

:| BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m,

RKO Radio TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m7, Extra Performance of "THE DEERSLAYER" At Usual Prices

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FINAL TO-DAY

At 2:30, 5:30, 7:30, & 9:30 PM

BLYTH

FER MEIDI HTSAT DE FIE

FÁST KILT AND BLAND TILL

- SP BRE OF THE KARAYLET

RF ALL FURRÝ ORCIUS

ملة في سعادة الحياة

BUSTER KER KEATON STORY

TO-MORROW

-

Vicior. Mature à Anila Ekberg

la

"INTERNATIONAL POLICE"

Luxe, the screen is literally filled with a sweeping land will haunt the day dreams scape of wild beauty that

of every schoolboy.

There I give myself away, For as I sen it. The Deer- slayer" is the perfect picture for much boys who are conservative enough to prefer the tomahawit to the space-gun.

in those days just beyond New momad. As a philosopher, he York State, that he flung the dives very deep and comes up book down and said he could very muddy.

that

the

did too, "The Decralayer, which philosophy of the book was too write better one himself. Ha I cars only think

seta a theme so familiar to movie tortuous to weave into any Alm, goes of moderń days, » The the Director therefore demii "blood-brother""; bad white with that part which presento man, good

Injustice the spectacle, and leave Ferrer towards the Indian You've a spectator merely, commenting seen a thousand times sineo. without reaching conclusions, You have a right to ask then, on what grounds do I recom- mend this effort?

Sitting down to about it, I cannot recall vineyard being used as the background of any Alm, which ja strange con sidering tho

Indian: considerable literature associated with the harvesting of the grape.

"The Vintage," M-G-M's re- lease, now showing at the Hoover and Liberty takea w right to the South of France, Into the grapo country. As the film is made in colour, there is story sometime, James Feni- considerable beauty in the pet more Cooper was the very fat ting. Pausing for a moment, the of the American writers to all terpture I am able to bring at realism in this kind of writ to my mind associated with Ing. A story goes that he was imaginary vineyards recalls violence, so annoyed by the passion, and destruction, "The writing of Europeans who had never visited the wild country, Vintage" is no exception.

The theme of the picture 18 ORD of conflicting emotions. One Is of the loyalty of a man to his younger brother who is wanted for murder, the second is his love for a girl who is denied him.

Mel Ferrer and John Ker

play the two brothers, Glancario and Ernesto who exope from the police by crossing the bader" from Italy into France after Ernesto has killed a man who has brutally beaten a girl.

Like the hop-pickers in Kent, there exists an itinerant band of vineyard workers who des- cend on the farmers at harvest time. The brother

join this. band, and then the plot unfolds. Plor Angel is the young farm with girl who falls in love Ferrer. But Ferrer in his roman- tic role feels he cannot return this love, for he persuades him- self that somehow tie is a herid of unhappiness,

in

John Kerr, who we saw "Tea and Sympathy" brings all the Intensity he displayed that part to this picture as the highly-strung younger brother.

picture The Vintagờ" is a that is colourful, exciting, and with a deinyed mispente, nemirst.

of the grape the background harvest. Jeffrey Hayden directs the picture. He is a well-known

T.V. Director, and this ig his debut as a film director. The Deerslayer

"The Deerslayer," Twentieth Century - Fox CinemaScope production, now showing at the Roxy and the Broadway, has ar- rived too late in my life to receive the appreciation from me that it deserves. Filmed in Colour by De

For A Memorable Evening DINE & DANCE

At

WINNER PALACE

&

NIGHT CLUB

Best Chinese Food In Town Music by

Celso & his Quartette Modeme

WINNER HOUSE

King's Road

Tel 70301

I went so far as to suggest that the distributors hold it over until the Christmas hol!- days, but they can't.

You must have read the

New Films

-At A Glance

SHOWING

& LIBERTY: Vintage": Two

Maxim Gorki phict of Tolstoy and his philosophy, “Hla mir- roundin become like a desert where everything is scorched by the sun and the sun Itself is smouldering away, threaten ing a black and eternal night."

First it is James Fenimore Cooper's classic brought to the screen. Secondly, it is benulle a bade- ally filmed against ground that could never bg That is what I mean. For caught by the mind's eye from hours this wonderful Alm pre- the pages of the beak.

sents its vivid picture of his- It is without doubt the pic- tory while Fondo, Audrey turo the family can attend. If Hepburn, and Ferrer movo to know where to against these epic years, The you want

take the children, there's need to looks any further. Dir- the dark.

na dlm ceasca, and one in left in

octor Kurt Neamana háa takter

his Lank very seriously and Naval Heilents. cssembled a fine rust with Lex

Admiral Nimitz comes to Barloer In the title role, Rita the screen in "Hellcats of

Moreno and Carlos Alvas return

as two lovers for whom all the Navy" now showing at works out well; Six-foot-four the Queen's and Alhambra, Tucker in the shady trader, to introduce the picture, I while Cathy O'Donnell provides cannot think what useful ihe stupid exasperation neces- sary to these films,

purpose this film serves, for Jay C. Flippen gives the it is really a documentary twist I had forgotten when he and the reason Nancy Davis does a bit of quid pro quo by appears is merely according scalping the Indians As it is in

that people colour, all the gore sows bright to the axiom HOOVER

as won't look and red. But children are

nt pictures. *Tho

pleased about this as parents which contain no feminine brothers who

aro at times squeamish, and role.. fugitives from the law,

hunting knives, and blood- vineyard descend on a

stained arrows are all part of a Pler at vintage time.

healthy boy's mental inventory. Angell, Mel Ferrer, John and Michele Ker

War And Peace NEOTERD. QUEEN'S & ALMAMBRA: "Helloats of the Navy": A story of a submarine exploit In the tabio. Infested

од Waters Ronald Reagan, Зарал.

Davis, and Nancy Arthur Frans. KING'S

PRINCESS: und Pence's Tolstoy's masterpiego brought to the seFTET. Andrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer. ROXY

BROADWAY; "The Deerlayer""; James Fenimore Cooper'i Advtaturė classio pro- sented in CinemaScope and Colour De Luxe. Lox Barker, nita. Moreno, Forteat Tucker, and Cathy O'Donnell,

METROPOLE: STAR &

"Battle Hymn":

I have two films left to review, but as one is "Battle Hymn," and my review is so recent, I merely say that the picture is being shown for a second week-end at the Metropole and Star.

bc

0.4

Admiral Nimitz tells us that!.

to tave his consent

that operation

toale these selected submarines and crew into a

ad- most hazardous venture. The target mine-infested Japan, and with submarine Commander took.

was the waters arouad the picture deals the calculated risk a

It is exciting in its way, particularly in the depth charge ta me. thero sequences, but seamed an air of unreality The next

Aim for reviewing about the whole thing. For one is "War and Peace," which thing, I find you can never get returns to the King's and the minor members of a cost Princess. Such a film is worth to give a realistic study of a a second review, it only to group who feel they are writ- sting out certain themes à arat ten

can get review necessarily caves - character portreynis, but the Buched.

bet, You

single

group effort is too much of a that muchness. First of all I noticed

What I really want to say is, I most renders of Tolstoy found something missing from the with the Cinema would leave am, yot I heard none say what wat alone. When wo realise It was, As a film I found it a 'dhat whole towns know what it magnificent historical spectacle, is to wait below while beabs also it is most authentic in are falling on them, we do not pictures to recapture, the disposition of the armies need A

for however artificially, thom when they drew up order

tense moments on or under the battle,

But each historical accuracy sea&arywhere else. was not so much Tolstoy's in- Again, any serviceman would three- tell you that the landing, party tention. His aim was fold: to give an eple picture of from the submarine would have the invasion of Russia during been wiped out before they had the Napoleonic Wars; to present run many yards as they do in his theory of history: to ex- the film. plain his own personal philoso

sensitive study of a frie Iseldent in the life of Colonel Denn Hessr

moves Into week

scoond. showing. Itock Hudson, Martha Hyer, and Dan Duryea, and Anna Kashfl.

. COMING

*

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of

HOOVER

LIBERTY; "Lisbon" A intrigue in that colourful elly.

Hay Milland. Maureen O'Hara, Claude Haize. and Yvonne Faineaux,

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA; “The Curse of Franken- stein': A horror from the British Stables by Warner Bros, Peter

Hagel Cushing,

Court, and Robert Urquari. KING'S + PRINCESS: "Man in the Vault": Has thriile, BURDENSE, and Ekberg. William Camp- bell, Karen Sharpe, and Andia Ekberg. ROXY & BROADWAY:

"The Three Facts Evo": A drams of the mind. taken from setual life story. Joanne Woodward. David Wayar, Lee J., Cobb. STAR * METROPOLE: "The Killing”: An ex- elting suspense - packed story of 1

naco Track robbery. Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, and Vince Edwards,

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

BALEIR CONDITIONED

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 9.30 p.m. The Year's most sensational performance!.. You may nover again dee anything so shocking as this ploture!

it will shock you out of your seat!

T

Kahoy Trancote

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or RAIN

Morning Show To-Morrow 18.30 THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING”-

of

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AL 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

TERRIFICI. TREMENDOUS!

TRIUMPHANTI CINEMASCOPE

ORLANDO

MIČN KETYKÓŁKA, KOSAKIA sa

KARRŐLIO MORÍ KORILLA DE LUČA

da Inglish Verbotte SUNDAY MORNING' SHOW "THE GOLDEN BLADE” (TECHNICOLOR)

Nevertheless, for those who phy in relation to God and the don't know the real thing, there material world,

is much in this picture to thrill should ty

that this ple- them, but what sickens me is the ture succeeds only in dealing neurotic kid who slings bitter with the first premise. Few phrases at his CO. Did this pictures I can think of have take place so often in the US. forces? It happens in almost surpassed this as a spectacle,

Me! Ferrer has to carry the very picture I've seen dealing with war from the U.S.A. ongle. second and third themes. say that Ferrer fails to do sa

Ronald Reagan gives a nice the sub- would be unfair, the part does cool performance as not allow him sufletent scope, marine commander, and if he; and the

thoughtful had put his temperamental 3 Cinema gor is bound to ask, /e on a fizzer, I should have "What is it all about?"

enjoyed. the plcture more. to I began

read Tolstoy while I was still at school, but

more

To

Nancy Davis has no real part in the show, just a few scenes as I have grown older, r find stuck in, and they don't it very my first findings merely

con- well.

BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY

HONG KONG BRANCH

GALA FILM PREMIERE

UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

SIR ALEXANDER GRANTHAM G.C.M.G. AND LADY GRANTHAM

Darry! F. Zanuck's Production of

Ernest Hamingway's

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

★ FINAL TO-DAY★

NO CREATER STORY.......ND GREATER GLORYI

HELLCATS

NAVY RONALD REAGAN Nancy Arthur

OPTINE

DAVIS FRANZ COLOMBIA PICTURE FRAGASZA

ADDED: LATEST CAUMONT-BRITISH NEWS! *MAN'S FIRST STEP INTO THE SPACE AGE COLF-BRITAIN'S RYDER CUP VICTORY

ETC., ETC., ETC.

• OPENING TO-MORROW •

QUEEN'S: 5 SHOWS

EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M,

FILMED BY THE COMPANY THAT GAVE YOU "ON THE WATERFRONT" AND WITH THE SAME SHOCKING REALISM!

COLLINA

NAKED TRUTH

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GIA SCALA - RICHARD BOONE, VALEASE FRENCH

AIR - "LONDITIONED

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STAR THEATRE METROPOLE

2nd TRIUMPHANT WEEK! NOW SHOWING THE 9th DAY! AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 P.M.

The Time and Wonderful Storyint COL DEAN HESS CLERGYMAN TURNED FIGHTER. PLOT:

ROCK HUDSON

HYRON

CINEMASCOPE TECHNICOLOK -

MARTHA HYER DAN DURYEA DON BEFORE

ANNA KASHFI-JOCK MAHONEY TO

A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

TO-MORROW MORNING BLOW-

STAR: At 11.00 a.m. Walt Disney's Feature Length Technicolor Cartoon "PINOCCHIO”

METROPOLE; At 1160 am.

M.G.M. TECHNICOLOR,

CARTOONS PROGRAMME

In CINEMASCOPE

At Reduced Prices -

STAR: At 12.30 p.m. MG.M. presents

In CINEMASCOPE & COLOR "THE STUDENT PRINCE” starring: Edmund PURBOM

Ann BLYTH

METROPOLE: At 12.30 p.m. Faith Domergue

in

THIS ISLAND EALTH"

A Universal Picturo

At Reduced Prices --

★ NEXT CHANGE ✯

CITY BENEATH SEA

THE TECHNICOLON

RYAN-POWERS- QUNN WALL.

** NSEU MATTEE + A UNIVERSAL-DEFIRMATIONAL PICTURE"

HOOVER

CAUSEWAY BAY YELLTREY

LIBERTY

"THE SUN ALSO RISES" OPENS TO-DAY 2.30, 5.80, 7.30 € 9.90 P.M.

Starring

Tyrone Power, Ava Gardnor, Mal Forrer, Errol Flynn,

Julietto Greco and Gregory Ratoff

Released through 20th Century Fox

AT THE

ROXY THEATRE THURSDAY, 31st OCTOBER, 1957

AT 9.40 P.M.

Overture by the Band of the 1st Bn. The Green Howards By Kind Permission Of Lieutenant Colons! H. A. Styles

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when the time is ripe for hum

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HOOVER 12.00

Tony Curta

**SON OF FAT BABA"

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