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KING'S PRINCESS

At 2.15, 5.30 & 9.00.p.m. || A 2.30, 6.00 & 9.15 p.m.

3 SHOWS DAILY

WINNER OF 7 ACADEMY AWARDS

BEST PICTURE OF 1957

JACK HAWNING

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BRITAIN'S GREATEST.

NOTION PICTURE ACHIEVEMENT:

COLUMBIA PICTUnta prestol A VORIZON BRITISH PRODUCTION

WILLIAM HOLDEN JACK HAWKINS ALEC GUINNESS

The Bridge on the River Kwai

BISSUE HAYAKAWA -JAMIN DONALD – Andre Macek/Pater Muhame 'She Super Parte permans - mingi Časton-Jun kajra and satindoczna filCHIRLY MONKE PAN BUKOIL Die By DETID LEAN

CINEMASCOPE

Fachruter ®

(This picture will not be shown again in H.K. in 1958).

Please note special admission prices:

Logo & Dress Circle: $4.70. Back Stalls: $3.50,

Front Stalls: $2.40 `.

(Complimentary tickets are not valid)

SPECIAL HOLIDAY Morning shOW

KING'S

To-day At 12.00 Noon Cecil B. DeMille's "KING OF KINGS"

To-morrow A1 12.00 Noon Cecil B. DeMille's "KING OF KINGS"

Apr. 7 A 12.00 Noon Ceell B. DeMille's "KING OF KINGS"

PRINCESS To-day AL 12.50 .. Hank's "THE HUNCH-BACK OF NOTRE DAME"

To-muiraw A 11,00 m. M-G-M TECH, CARTOONS & Free 7-UP drinka 12.30 TEA & SYMPATHY"

Apr. 7 ă 12.30 p.m. Chiere Flm

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AIR CONDITIONED

STAR

METROPOLE

✰ SHOWING TO-DAY ★

Please note change of times:

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

STAR: To-day & To-morrow Extra Performance of "LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON"

At 12.15 p.m.

Some people fall in love at first sight...

-but nobody

in Paris can wait

that long!

EVE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1958.

FILMS

HAVERYTHING I can say of "The Bridge on the River Kwal," has been sald. Now on show at the King's and Princess, it is already laden with honours gained as the best picture mude in 1957. Best netar, best pic ture, best director, best

best screenplay.

photo- graphy, liest music score, best film editing.

You can't have anything bute, ter than the best and that's all there is to -with seven Oseats to prove it.

When you get Alee Guinness at his best. Jack Hawkins at his best, and William Holden at his best, you have three superb actors.

Now Lake David Lean who awept the honoury awarded the best director, and give him a script like "The Bridge on the River Kwal.". The result; You are probably seeing the motion picture of the century.

I'm Roing to chance opinion: think many of you will come out of the Kings or Princess and say: "That is the finest la I have ever seen in my life."

The Ineldent itself, the build- ing of a wooden bridge spun- ning smelly river gorge in a festering Siamese jungle. has After out of the whole been

CURRENT & COMING.

by

ANTHONY FULLER

whole problem of the film calls last nor least, the box-office

boys for something that is taught in business of Hfe, and the ever- un school of druma, It is the

sting challenge of fortitude.

My second point is this: When the Americans start to beat themselves over the heads, they The Lee and Astor re-enter do not stop at half measures, the Almarens with "Sayonara" They ure not the semi- kind of modern "Madam berbarians this flim, would have them, and I do not think it fair Eutterfly."

that Hollywood should show There are two ways of look them in this flight. The military Ing at this Alm, and as you were trying

ዞሮ the would prefer to know what kind youngsters from infoluation, and or olm it is, I will leave out any it one Buttons was sacrificed to personal comment until the end this seemingly harsh system, of this review.

типу boys were saved from marriages, that withstood the society, both mark you.

could not have

ostrockim of East and West,

It is obvious that'Aive "Guin ners as Colonel Nicholson, Sesye Hayakawa as the Japanese Com- mandunt, William Holden as the

sardonie. tough,

courageous American, Jack Hawking as the Cambridge

Don turned Com

Donald as the mundo, James army M.O., and Davitt Lean who direets The Dim, have Joshua Logan, who directs caught with white-hot intensity this im takes it through an

the meaning of the film theme. over-emotional plot that will keep the least sensitive member of the audience gulping in SUB, don't lei my bl o! sympathy. At times the picture muralising get in the way, 30 rises to moments of rare beauty. is a great film, tenutiful beyond I have in mind the scene when words, and those who the young lovers, crushed be- visited Japan WEI love those tween the tw juggernauts of misty shots taken outside Oral; race prejudice and inflexible. And na this Bin will show, bureaucracy, decide to and a Jopan has much benuly to affer way out.

the world, and Japan has much to forgive the Western world. But before Hiroshima there was Pearl Harbour.

I could pile superlative upon superlative, but to who pur pose? The whole world has declared this film great, and if there occurs a touch of pride be cause I Inn English fim, sure ly that is natural,»,

Yet in so saying, I must not forget that it comes troma

happy collaboration of American The camera holds a long shot sponsorship of British protes-f the lovers, shown through Sional skill. That how mist of pastel pluk net curtains. should be, and when such happy They are locked in each other's unions produce great films of arms in death. Now I saw this the kind, I am oil for 1.

film early in the morning, and surrounded by hard-billen fika executives, who cry only when one of their film doesn't Kross' a record.

This Columbla Horizon British Production is fined In Cinema- Scope and Technicolour,

667 JERRY

ME

have

ANDREW"

now playing at the Hoover and Liberty, is a I state this as a fact. They colourful romp in Merry took out their handkerchiefs and England, which gives Danny sebbed like children, and I ad- Kaye a new accent, a, new mit that I joined them.

role, and endless opportu- jet witles for. exquisite

clowning,

Marion Brando, 03

*

.

ȚITHOUT intention, Hongkong has opened world of war, and is now an epic up a Film Festival season. nighter ace relieved from combat

big has put everlasting on its showpiece, so every endurance-even at the mouth one should be delighted

film fans, distributors, and exhibitors, and by no means

couroge

and

of hell.

Rarely do autors simultaneous- ly rise to such helghts, but the

ROXY & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY

4 SHOWS TO-DAY, TO-MORROW AND ON 7TH APRIL

Due to the importanco and length of the picture. please note special times:

At 12.00 Noon, 3.00, 6.00 & 9.00 p.m. THE SPECTACLE OF LOVE AND WAR THAT MAKES- MOTION PICTURE HISTORY!!

GARY COOPER

LOVE

IN

AUDREY

HEPBURN.

THE AFTERNOON

MAURICE

20

CHEVALIER

Froduccé and Bieneledby ·

BILLY WILDER

MEIN JOHN MCKITA LA 1 Bornstar by DIELY WEDER and I. A. L. DUMOHO

Deped in Noval by CLAUDE ANETTAtvsical Dataplation by FRANZ WAXMÁM

An ALLISO ARTISTS Presentation & Treasad DVŲ UNITED ANDETE

STAR: To-morrow Special Morning Show At 11.00 a.m.

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METROPOLE: To-morrow Special Morning Show

At. 11.00 'a.m, Fox Technicolor Cartoons At 12.15 p.m. EXTRA PERFORMANCE OF "LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON"

(At Uspal Priços)

METROPOLE: Special Morning Show on Mon., 7th Apr.

At 12.30. p.m.= "RHAPSODY”. Starring: Elizabeth TAYLOR

An M.G.M. Picture in TECHNICOLOR:

mini At Reduced Prices visi

Dodd0; Relznick ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S

A

AREWELL

TO ARMS

ROCK HUDSON JENNIFER JONES VITTORIO DE SICA

Date

Charles Vidor

BEN HECHT CINEMASCOPE Related By Bơm Chewy-4

ROXY: Specially Added! CinemaScopo Fosturotto "'ORIENT EXPRESS TO HONG KONG" Color by De Luxe

BROADWAY: Specially Added! CinemaScope Featuretto "OUTPOST KOREA" Colór by De Luxe

Admission Pricas: Logo Sests $4.20; Dress Circle $3.50, Back Stalls $3.00, Middle Stalls $2.40; Front Stalls $2.00 (Included Tax) Complimentary tickets are not valid for this picture

BROADWAY: To-morrow Morning Show At 11.00a.m. FOX TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS, At Reduced Prices

and race prejudice, gives a The script comes from Paul beautifuity controlled "perfor- mence of a man whose narrow- minded approach to racial prob Jems surrenders to the ex- quisite benuty of a cherry blossom Idyll.

DEVASTATING

Gallico, and contains that touch of sophisticated whimsy, so that although we see Danny Kaye at we are conscious his funniest, thai in us all is that longing for a life away from the prosaic business of everyday affairs.

The songs swing away from If it were left to me, the fe- the tear-k-off stuff you usually wards this flim earned would go get with films. These arc to Red Buttons. I know he catchy, tuneful, and casy to earned the "Best Supporting whistle. For kistance, the number Actor" along with Miyoshi which introduces the academic Umeki, but I feel he did even. Keyo and the film is called better than that. Milko Taka as "Everything is Ticketyboo," and, the leader of the Matsubayashi & classroom number, very "The Pipes of Pan" dancers appears with that re- clever, is mote beauty that the Occidental which all follows from a lecture male finds so devastating... on Mythology.

Patricio Owens, us Brando's flance, playing away from home as it were, does not get a look in. Charming as she is, in this exotic cherry blossom idyll, her Occidental charm is clumsy in this sa fragile setting.

SHY CHARMS

There are some excellent gags Danny Knyn thrown in when gols mixed up in a clreus, aud ceases his archaeological excava- tions in become a temporary clown and trapeze artist.

Pier Angell as a circus giri, and Patriein Cutis as a school- mistress Bre the rivals Danny's shy charms.

for

The film is Inshioned, and I would say, the book written, in the first fine flush of romance that besets the Westerner when he first merges with the East.

The film poses mere problems

Noel Purgell, Rex Evans, and than it answers; it has Brande

"All that matters is I love Robert Coole, play along in the

I believe that, I per. pleture as Kaye's relations. sonally think that is all that It is an excellent holiday matters, but I have to realise choice, full of fun, full of son, that society, both East and West as light-hearted as a sky luck. will not permit this. In time, The whole family can go, and yes; it must, or we shall perlah Tough their way through this before racial hatreds.

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you."

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

SHOWING

KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Bridge on the River Kwal."

pald The whole world has homage to this film. It has wept the board clean of awards. Is a Great? It is Superb! Hongkong will be thrilled by th Erilain 18 proud of

A Columbia Horizon Cineman- British Scope and Technloolour production. Alec Guinness, William Holden, JACK Hawkins, Hayakawa and

with

Sete James

Donald. LEE & ASTOR: "Sayonara.” The emotional drama of mixed SHAFTLAKES, meta- menial treatment; exquisits photography: raviuhing beauty: senislivo direction, Marion Brando, Mliko Taka, Red Ballons, Miyosh! Umeki, and Patricla Owork, HOOVER Sh LIBERTY: "Metry Andrew." A bright funny colourful peregrina- tion fron schoolroom to

circus. Catchy DEN; new Paul gags: fresh stunt Gallico script, The Ideal holiday plcture to match Danny your holiday mood. Kaye, Pier Angell, Noet Robert Coote, and Purcell, Baccaloni STAR & METROPOLE: “Love in the Afternoon," Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, and Maurice Chevaller. Anything can happen in Paris on April afternoon. A QUEEN'S: "Scarlet Doll.”

film whloli lustrates an Important advance Chinese Alm production. English subtitles; a tale of the old War Lords; CR- chanting scene; graceful acting: Lin Dal, Wang Yin, Chang Yang.

“A

new

BOXY & BROADWAY: Farewell to Arms.”. film version of Hemingway's classic.

Rock Kule-02, Jenifer Jones and Vittorio, De Sica.

*COMING

The King's & Princtus, Leo. M

Astor, Hoover & Liberty. Roxy & Broadway are all The expecting long runs. following time aro schedul- ed for

seretning at othe future date. KING'S & PRINCESS: *Klgħ

Flight..' Пат Miland and, The Royal Air Force team\

to make

Most the thrilling ...) penuntation super-domin......... flying ever. Intenso story, superb photo- graphy, osimplex emotional Mituational Base ..... ellmax. CingakHoëpë, Technicolour, "Ich Fushë”, nirol, color- -posed by Eclo-Omnicas Man LEE & ASTOR), 156 Brisket

· Balist with Diazors in the Covent Garden: Heral Coni-,

of

HOOVER

LIBERTY:

Made

"Raintree County." by MGM and filmed by the now Cabiéra 05. A grester #fan "Oone With the': Wind" - Superb, is the only word. Elizabeth Taylor, Nigh- Patrick, Montgomery Cut, Eva Maris Saint, and ~Lee Marvin.

STAR & METROPOLE: “Man sof a Themmad Faces? · The alory of Lon Chaney, Jamce, Cizner, Dorothy Malone, and Jine Greer. ROXY & BROADWAY: "The

· Long Hot Bunnte". Jerry Wald's producilots of WBlinds – Frulkner'a 'storica of the Bouth. · Romanor, sex, Land drama, nisng with Paul

Nowzma

Woodward

QUEEN'S

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SHOWING TO-DAY

·

FIRST SHOWING IN HONGKONG.

A MILLION-DOLLAR PRODUCTION!

ENTIRELY FILMED IN JAPAN

(Hong Kong's Entry to The Film Festival).

CORLET

FOLL

Eastmancolor

Starring

LIN DAI

(Winnor of the Best Actress Award}}

Wide Screen -

English Subtitles

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