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KING'S PRINCESS

At 2.15, 5:30 & 9:00 p.m. || As 2.30, 6,00 & 9.15 p.m.

3 SHOWS DAILY

WINNER OF 7 ACADEMY AWARDS

BEST PICTURE OF 1957

BRITAIN'S

GREATEST

MOTION

PICTURE

ACHIEVEMENT:

DOLEKULA TICĪBALTS

WALA DE

JACK HAWNH

A HORIZON FETISH PRODUCTION WILLIAM HOLDEN

JACK HAWKINS · ALEC GUINNESS

The Bridge on the River Kwai

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The Three Faces Of Eve

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The Three Faces Of Eve

BUNDAY MORNING SHOW AI 19:30 PM. -"0.K, NERO"

THE“ CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1958.

FILMS

N. T. Chow

hns

Mwritten in quite a long

letter about my criticism of the film "Sayonara." It is an extremely able criticism of the film in its own right, and although I do hột know Mr Chow, I have seen let. ters of his in the press of the best film papers in the United Kingdom; any point he raises is of considerable Importance and ably pressed.

Ex-

What Mr Chow seems to ou- ject to, in my culling "Sayonara" an "overomöllanal" plot. Now

I will tell you why I said so. Had I written up my copy while still under the emotional Impact of the Ah, it would have been devnslating attack on all Bartow minds and crooked natures, that cannot see that all the world is one people.

I would have strofed all those pigmy-minded people who can- not see that falling in love is race or nothing to do with

other of those colour, or any artificial barriers erected by the Liputian controllers of our destiny,

But the fact remlins, I have to live in a society that will not permit the obvious. And on that account, I cannot blame Western society alone, The Chinese are extremely race-conscious, the Japanese also, and they have erected barriers against the of East and West in mingling marriage.

romance is over.

CURRENT & COMING

by ANTHONY ANTHONY FULLER

TAST-rising French actress Mylene Demongest (hailed as meccscor--to-Briglite-Bardot) paws a chicken bone

London

ไท

다

restaurant with her husbond, 31-

year-old photographer Henri Coste, Mylene was in London

for the premiere of her film "Bonjour Tristes." She and Henri were married a month ago Express.

one ot

the regular, made him the kind) 'necessary to carry out tho Foblar inclica which wore the enemy down, and softened him up for the kill.

I often met "Colonel Nichol- son," He almost drove me mad at times, Bo that I often wondered whether he thought the job was some big game played by some set of rules de- clded upon by himself and Ete enemy commanders.

1 can assure you he would not

have survived a court martial,

except if medical evidence was forthcoming to prove him of disturbed balance of mind,

To

O fully appreciate the tremendous impact of "A Farewell to' Arms,” we have to recall that the novel WAS written by Hemingway OVAT years ago.

Ernest

thirty

Bemingway stayed on in Paris with a crowd of young American writers, and they wrote in force- ful terms of the life they saw in the midst of Europe's désolation. They were disillusioned. Nothing they had learned in the New World prepared them for the holocaust they found in the old.

Life from being a noble thing. and man a noble creature, they saw life as it was cruci, ugly, ignoble, and men a brutal savage.

thum

Should there be any doubt Without exaggeration, I have

It was this factor more heard more talk about this flu about thut, one has only to recall

the closing scenes: When he sees any other that conditioned their than any other I can remember. Colonel Nicholson, as portrayed the wire leading to the demoll- writing, and "A Forewell to Ey Alec Gulanes; in "The Bridge tion charge, he says something Arms" with Tiemingway's 'raw More's the pily, but that is on the River Rwal, seems to like, "There's something wrong stracate style, punclied its way the situation, and such courage- be

those creations here," What is more, he maites through the senses of the reading ous people who defy the narrow which step right out of the pages that remark to the Japanese public. conservative conventions

The picture is deliberately of of Bellon to

become a living Commandant! In other words, society have an uneasy time

In its study of he momentarily identified him- frank, clinical personality,

self with Japanese interests. To human instincts, and life is pre- show how complete is that sented as something primitive, und desperately Identification, he seeks to thwart frightening, his own side by apprehending futile,

It is this approach, rather than It must be remembered that the actual events of the first which I say dates if that bridge had not been des- World War, troyed, it would have taken the subject. From my own enemy troops right through the limited experience shared with jungle and placed them within lllons of others of the horrors Afriking distance of the British of another war, I say, Heming- Forces.

Many of the cinema way is wrong. For out of that answer I gave was that he would audience lost sight of that fact. living hell, I saw people who have been given a couri-martial,

Alec Guinness plays the part rolused to surrender to circum- and furthermore, had I been with such genius that his own stance, and build a heaven for member of such a court, I would absorbed mind is carried right' themselves. Man is as foolish, have tried to have given him all Into the audience, and they as wicked as Hemingway claims;

court could--including a

Identify themselves with his but he is saint as well as beasi

mind. "bowler hat,"

when the first fine flush of It is not beyond the bounds of Therefore, I must take the probability that we shall soon situation as it in. The Alm does speak of a "Nicholsonish mind" exaggerate the type that existed, or a "Nicholson manner."

And people are strongly who full of blind prejudice, destory the beauty that fine divided in their opinions as to minds discover in the undoubted what would have happened to Colori Nicholson had he beauty of different races.

Unlike Mr Chow, I found Brando's rather theatrical exit less convincing than Red Bulics, Somehow, 1 thought, this romance would fade when they 'settled down to the mundane business of housekeeping in the

States.

However, Mr Chaw makes his points

well, and I have taken them as such, but still I think he

the influence is under

of "Sayonara," and speaks of a world we long for-rather than

a world as it ly.

LL the films are running

survived the tragedy of the In-

cidem of the bridge.

My opinion was asked.

The

the Commandos,·

of

Which

Fialo of mind. I say again, wusie wrong state

were That there

Colonel

at times. fact of the matter

Whether you feel that Rock The

Hudson and Jennifer Jones re- Colonel Nicholson lost sight of

capture the defeated attitude of matter of his objective. People say, he maintained the morale of his Nicholsons goes without saying. the author is men. He did, and no one can That men did forget the overall opinion. For what it worth concentrate on my opinion is, they do not. The deny that the qualities he dis objective and played in so doing place him as such matters as laid down in the best performance seems to be

cold print of rules and regala- that of Vittorio de Sica.....

It is a raw alm, slightly healed tons, was only too apparent. to the new Army which won the by the censor, but a challenging Alm And I reassert that there The soldier, as portrayed by ere men and women who every Jack Hawking was the war win day refuse to accept this aspect Ber. A fine clear mind, à ruth or life, and refusing, win to lees determination to get the job heaven.

Beautifully filmed, gorgeous dono, a quick appreciation of the situation, an imaginative ap- in its landscapes, pleture of proach thal was often lacking in considerable merit,

All the films are running ph exception doing place him as But at the same time he lost affords us an opportunity of sight of his first objective. Ho taking a second look at boosted morale, and lost him war. them. First I want to take self in the secondary objective, the Case of Colonel Nichol buliding a better bridge than the Japanese, to show British superiority.

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RED BUTTONS Best Supporting Actress

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KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Bridge on the Biver Kwal," The whole world has paid homage to this film. It has swept the board clean of awards. It is Great! It is Superb! Hongkong will be thrilled by it, Britain in proud of it A Columbia Hills Horizon Cinezna- and Technicolour Boogie production. Alta Giniones). William Helden, Jack

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AREWELL

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