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KING'S PRINCESS

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.20

*

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 G. 9.40 P.M.

9.30 P.M.

(Please note change of times)

TO-DAY

Living Fast... Loving Hard... Frankie Sings His Heart Out In An..

Electrifying Performance!

FRANK

SINATRA →

JEANNE

GAYNOR-CRAIN EORIE ALBERT

The Joker is Wild

A Charles Vide Production

* BEVERLY GARLAND - JACUE GOOĞAN

Brected by

CHARLES VIDOR. SANVEL J. BRISKIN

OSCAR SAUL · from 2 100% 29 ART COMIN The Laf den & Lanac – À Puasa Boletve

EXTRA MORNING SHOWS TO-MORROW KING'S & PRINCESS At 11.00 A.M.

Walt Disney's

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

KING'S At 12.20 P.M.

Victor Mature Anita Ekberg in "ZARA K"

H

PRINCESS At 12.30 P.M. Grace Kelly Alec Guinness Louis Jourdan in "THE SWAN”

CinemaScope and Technicolor. Admission: $1.00, $1.50

ROXY & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY ★ AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P..M

A TRUE STORY OF UNDERCOVER AGENTSI

COUNT FIVE and D

CINEMASCOPE

JEFFREY HUNTER NIGEL PATRICK ANNEMARIE DURINGER BAYID NGSSOFF-ROLF LEFEBVRE

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m.

ROXY: At 12.00 Noos

BOB HOPE

JANE RUSSELL

in

"PALEFACE"

in Technicolor

A Paramount Picturo

UNIVERSAL

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1958.

FILMS

* * *

sees the Inst delali. And yet people THIS week-end

several changes at the "life is so dull." You won't

think so after seeing this, cinemas, although variety and opera continue in inter- val run between filmo hit the Lee and Astor. "Peylon Place" comes off at the Roxy and the Broadway to make place for “Count Five and Die,” a 20th Century Fox British CinemaScope.

This dlm stars Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Patrick, and Annemarie Duringer, and is produced by Ernest Gatside, and directed by Victor Vicas.

This stark CinemaScope cloak and dagger fim is set in dismal wartime London, and concerns two intelligence officers, one British and the other American, who officially conspire with the Dutch to put the Nazls on a false Invasion scent. But their schemes almost go astray when they are outwitted by a wołan enemy agent,

The authentic plot of this film Is approached trom the documentary angle and

Is denied the conventional romantic happy ending, but thanks to faultless characterisation and skilled and imaginative direction. It holds the audience tight in a grip of almost unendurable tension, and proves that fact is infinitely more exciting than fiction,

Let no one imagine that it is any national pride which leads me to say that this is the finest, most adult, and by far the best | film on espionage to come out of It is an any studios anywhere. outstanding British explonage ilm.

XE all remember Frank Sinatra the singer, and more lately we have come to admire Frank Sinatru the actor, but in "The Joker is Wild," we have a combina ton of both singer and actor a very which adds up to entertaining Blm.

Once again, in search of good have produec drama, the found truth stranger than fiction,

CURRENT & COMING

by ANTHONY FULLER

ANT

out some beautiful scenic and Metropole. Starring effects which will delight the Jock Mahoney, Shawn 5 mith, and William

true cinema connoisseur.

The Jangunge barrier will Reynolds, directed by Virgil prevent the average foreigner Vogel and produced by Wil- from abbreciating the ubije Hani Allrd. dialogue, but the English sub-

this am- NOW it Universal-Interna- titles set you over

tional enter the realm' of culty,

fantary, you can rest assured Aan film, it points to the they do it well. This cothpany progress in film making that is takes no risks of appearing it crosses the ng achieved, for although stupid when for convenience, "the company border line from fast to fiction, went to Japan for location work, and every tim they make of it a local film. The story was

this type is plausible, so that written by a local girl, and to the audience is satisfied that at set, as far as I could toll, in the least, it could happen. Interior of Northern China, at the time when local armies were more or less bandils.

are

a

and in short, the plot la the There are some beautiful career of Joe E. Lewis, a suc- sequences, especially one which cessful night-club singer, who has a girl singing a song of c Eets his throat slashed by some lamb she holds in her arms, and Chicago hoodlums when he quila cells of her loneliness in a world the job he has for a better one. both hard and cruel.

The Western observer will This Faramount Vista Vision

and that Chinese Alma release is made with shocking breaking away from the photo realism and features Frank graphed play treatment, which Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynar, Jeanne slowed them down so much, and Crain, and Eddie Albert, and is although this film contains directed by Charles Vidor, pro- little stage convention, it is duced by Sam J. Briskin, with

miles ahead of any other treatment for the screen doxe Chinese Alm regarding technical by Oscar Saul,

achtovement that I have seen.

Recommended As a film of Before going on to the film,

Interest to

"the immenso those who like to hear Sinatra Westerner; starring Lin Dai, in some of the nostalgie num- Wang Yin, and Chang Yang. Lers might be interested in the

songs he revives from Thirties. You got; "At Sun- down," at Crica for You," and Naturally, strung onto, some new numbers.

the

For instance, "The Lahd Un- known," is a story inspired by Admiral Byrd's 1947 South Pole expedition during

which ho discovered d mysterious warm water area in the midst of the Antarctic lecfieldst

From there, screenwriter Laszlo Gorog is elt on his own in amongst the awesome prehis i ho pushes his cast toric monsters that exist in the twentieth century, their sur vival being due to their living in a volcanic area untouched by Age and unchanged the Ice since the Mesozole era.

The monsters look terrifying- ly real, and the mechanics of the cinema have improved be- yond all bellet since the time when King Kong first snatched a plane from the sky.

But the film does not rely upon stunts elone, and in this story of a selentiae expedition THE Land Unknown" headed by Jock Mattoney, there THE

and presented by is plenty of excitement The film's honesty of trend-

adventure. Recommended for mint takes you from the scene Universal - International in the favourable attention of all where the terrible scars and CinemaScope, at the Star "science-fact" fans, the loss of his singing voice build a barrier between Sinatra Apart from 1

of and people; and he turns from romantle sequences and an the lite he knew and loved, to occasional visit to a

arc

couple

03

the

pub, the gambling and drink, fum makes 110 attempt to glorify war of

the play to

Co-starring. Mitzi Gaynor gallery, but the personal prob- a show girl, and Jeanne Crain lems which

Involved as a society beauty, "The Joker logically widen the scope of the is Wild," now showing at

14

fold picture, und heighten its ex-

King's and Princess,

straight-from- tremely stern climax.

with an honest the-shoulder realism that brings tension, sadness, and laughter to the audience,

Jeffrey Hunter portrays the susceptible Ranson to perfection; Nigel Patrick, as the precise,

The role Eddie Albert takes slightly Impatient English

ever in this friend is the re- Omeer, Major Howard, gives a

played the port enactment which performance

leaves.

In the true story, that of Aus- nothing to be dcaired.

tin Mack, the best friend and Annemarie Duringer completely

the night-club disarms both the audience and accompanist of

singer. more susceptible Jettrey

Old film fans might be inter- Hunter, she portrays the

that Jackie courageous, even if two-timing, ested le corn

a small part Rolande.

Coogan has this aim, Well recommended, as an-

the

David

+L9

Kossoff,

and Rolf good entertainment and

other acting triumph Lefebvre, and other well-known performers also register In this Sinatra. authentic story,

The Alm takes you along the

shabby grimy streets, alongside

in

for

a canal, and through the grimy THE Alhambra is re- marshalling yards of London's

rear suburban STORE. The turning to Chinese pie- atmosphere created in these

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

SHOWING

KING'S & PRINCESS: ""The Frank Joker is Wild." Sinatra, Jeanne Cralu, Mitzi Gaynor, and Eddie Albert, night-club In a story of a entertainer who made good with drinking and gambling. STAR & METROPOLE: ""The Land Unknown" The story of four people who probed "deep into the Antarelio to

hidden discover #

valley inhabited

pre-historic Jock Mahoney. Shawn Bmith, HHllam Beynolds, with Henry Brandon.

monsters,

ROXY

BROADWAY: "Count Five and Die."

- Intriguing story. · Diest-rate „Beting, popular staru, clever direction, impeccable detall, intelligent disleruo, and an

scenes, mostly shol at night, tures, and in the production lend to the flim an atmosphere they call "Scarlet Doll,"

*KING'S they have achieved a beau- of stark realism.

vnst tifat film. It is a Again I say, the. picture is Inscinating because it is screen effort, and the East- bringe absolutely true right down to mancolour proceBS

เ

Lee • Astor

Tol.72436

At 12.30 p.m.

Tyrone Power

•

Susan Heyward

in

"RAWHIDE"

At Reduced Prices

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

HELD OVER!

CONDITIONED

AT 2.30, 8.30, 7.50 & 0.20 P.M.

TO-DAY

SEE Horrors grips the earth at 2.50, men, 7.30 & 0.30 F.M. Robot runs amok!

M-O-MYAMAZINO ROSCIT THRILLERİ

The INVISIBLE BOY

KARLO. TONE - ROBERT »L HARRIS

ROBBY. The ROBOT

Morning Show To-Morrow 12.30) "THE HUNCHBACK OF

NOTRE DAME"

WALT DISNEY-

HIEN VARKER-ZUF HINTEI

Walk Displayb

Men Aquist

Morting Show To-morrow.

"FANNY BY GABLIGHT” Starring: Jatics MABON

Blowkit GRANGER

TELEVISION

TELEPHONE: 77-2021

Tel. 67777

“TO-NIGHT, AT 8.00 P.M.

CANTONESE OPERA

"THE PRINCESS"

花女带

presented by

SIEN FUNG MING

PLAYERS

"THE LEGEND OF

I MADAME WHITE SNAKE”

傳蛇白

presented by

SUN YIM YUEN

PLAYERS..

* Admission: $12.80, $8.90, $7.60, $5.00, $4.70 & $3.00

CAPITOL RITZ

showing to-DAY ★

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

糙

JERRY LEWIS

funnier than ever in one

of the funniest pictures ever

THE DELICATE DELINQUENT

DARREN MCGAVIN - MARTHA HYER ROBERT VERS HORACE MMAHION = pravdat sy #ERRY LEWIS, work and avated by Dan sedikit

A Fanermount Picture:

TO-MORROW SPECIAL SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.

CAPITOL

RITZ “TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN"

"HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE

DAME".

་

apt. titre making the boat over. espionage story Jeffrey Hanter

and Patrick,

Duringer.

Annemarie

ALHAMBRA: "Sourlet Doll,” A Chinees film of consider-

bechnical abla

ability. English subtitles, filmed in Eastmanco Jur, starring Lán Dal, Wang YE, and Chang Yang, it nmkes an admir- ablo Introduction

HOOVER & LIBERTY: "The

COMING

PRINCESS: Happened in Rome." The Bank Organimation's Techni- mara Technfestour story of a holiday that began liko sil other holidays, but didn't finish up quite the

Isabelle June Laverick, Corey, and Inge Schoener,

STAR & METROPOLE: "The Paths of Glory." A big

of molive atm

pacifist Intentions, abot in. Munich and Kubrick, Starring Kirk Douglas.

BOXY

BROADWAY: Calle Empire.” A 20th Century Fox Colour de

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY

COMPLETE CHANGE

OF ACTS, COSTUMES & SCENERIES

• 3 SHOWS DAILY

THE WORLD-FAMOUS “SHOCHIKU REVUE”,

"THE BEST AND MOST PROFESSIONAL STAGE SHOW EVER TO REACH HONG KONG"-H.K. TIGER STANDARD.

BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

SHOWING

ALHAMBRA

AIR-CONDITIONED

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

TO-DAY

A MILLION DOLLÁR PRODUCTION!

ENTIRELY

FILMED

IN

JAPAN

for

Western admirers of Eastern .filmy techniques,.

娃紅

of

Filde and The Passion." Cary Grant, Frank Blantra. and Sophia Loren

Technicolour

· drama romance and rebellion during the Napoleonie do enpation of Spain.

Luxe, CinemaScope outdoor producilors of war between ranch kings, and cutlaws. / Joel McCrea, with Gloria Talbot, Dois Maggerly, and Phyllis Contes,

ALHAMBRA: 'Continuing a K of top-rate Chinese

"

HOOVER & LIBERTY: "EaÙ" They fall." An absorbing story set in, warline' Now Zealand; which brings out with stark reall the dangers which beat the Jonely. Jean Slaiminas, Joen Fontaine, Paul Newman, and Piper Lattrie. ·

HOOVER LIBERTY

CAUSEWAY BAYI VIENG RATI

Now in its 3rd Week of Engagement TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9,40 P.M.

Extra! Added Attraction at the 2.30 and 9.40 Performances-Authentic Pictures of the Earth Satellito "THE EXPLORER”.

the pride

the flame.

...the passion.

CARY GRANT FRANK SIMTRA SOPHIA LOREN

STANLEY KRAMER'S

46 = MONUMENTAL FILMING OF

THE PRIDE and THE PASSION”

SPECIAL SUNDAY MATINE!

HOOVER 41 12.00 noon Charles Dickens' *DAVID COPPERFIELD"

Lional Barryntero Yourway O'Sullivary

Tachicolor Viskerbloe Released thee tinired Artista

AT REDUCED ADMISSION LIKKKTY a 12.30 p.m. Richard Widmark Bella Darvi

“HELL AND HIGH WATER”

Scarlet Doll

'Starring

LIN DAI

(Winner of the Best Actress Award) WANG YIN ..CHANG YANG Eastmancolor --- Wide Screeni

lith English

Subfilies

A1P - CONDITIONED

STAR · METROPOLE

CRAND OPENING TODAY AT 2.30, 5,80, 1.30 6 930 PM.

DEEP IN THE

ANTARCTIC WILDERNESS} Monstars Fram

TLand

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