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KING'S • PRINCESS

SHOWING TO-DAY

From Francoise Sagan's Sonsational Best-seller.

DEBORAH KERR. DAVID NIVEN JEAN SEBERG MYLENE DEMONGEOT..

City Prehunger's

BONJOUR TRISTESSE

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1958. **

CURRENT & COMING by

FILMS ANTHONY FULLER

out envy.

This film is different. I know and Astor, preferably will ear

hunt for

ΜΟΓΕΣ

DUSINESS has been atmosphere of ectarded 'griety

rather dull in the which left me, at any rate, with- it la maid of all Westerns, but plugs and soothing tablela,

here the situation 18 really einema world this past The mutle I found extremely different. It has all the beautiful

As a matter of fact, Colonel week with the exception suitable to the alm, easy-going sernie beauty of the Colorado Darby was one of the finest of Roxy and Broadway stuff, easy to listen to, with Rockles: the quick draw; the combat officers of all the Allied the Armies, and a man who Во where "The Young Lions" Just that touch of nostalgia the fist fight, the Alm requires.

In Obviously, with trigger-happy killer

the glorled' in combat that he is playing to excellent busi- such a cast, you are bound to end: but nevertheless, the persistently refused promotion ness at both houses.

get some good neting. Jeɛn motives are more mature, and, that would have taken him away Seber, as Cecile, plays the role I should imagine,

from the pleked force of men whom he trained and led into Talking over the cinema taste of the unhealthy minded teen authentie, for normally men de of Hongkong with an exhibitor. ager. It would be untrue to say not kill unless they are insane battle. we agreed that trying to fore- I have never met the type, they and have a killer lust, cast o fim's success here is about do crop up every now and again

To any In what way this im the most risky business possible. in a family where there is too Usually, no matter how good i much money, and the parents is different would be to reveal film is, if it contains a deep plot are too busy being immoral to the plot all I can my in, the but the reasons which explores the

guard the play is there, Intangible ale me

for the play are true to life, inctives of the mind, it does not morals of their offspring. go down here. An example What the actress taking such More than that, the usual fairy- a part has to do is to dig down tale eat which survives in the There is info the subconscious of a teen- Western, is missing.

killing ager who knows for 100 much, no happy ending to a and develop the part of a too unless he who is killed is un-

mica

universally experienced

roaming related, and a man round in an inexperienced body, hated

dangerous AR this was simple until qualities. made which

on the proof that Sigmund Freud came

think teachers and the tim was taken off too soon. Acene.

would have dismissed it played to excellent business, parents and for the life of me I cannot the situation with: She knows

was, "The Three Faces of Eve," which was hailed everywhere as an exceptionally good film, opact from the fine academy winning performance of Joanne Wool ward.

"Sayonara" mid-week return

f

of to

GEOFFREY HORNE JULIETTE GRECO WALTER CHIARI understand why it was taken oft für too much for her age

MARTETA PRINT HOLAND CULVER JEAN KEXT DAYID OILET, TIGA ANDERSEN SCREENPLAY DY ARTHUR ERIBENIS BASED ON THE NOVEL BY FRANCOISE SAGAN MUSIC BY GEORGES AUTIC PRODUCEO AND DIRECTED BY DITO PREMINGER CINEMASCOPE TECHRISIDAD NIYASINI VALTIO FURLA

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KING'S

1

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To-morrow at 11,00 a.m. 20th Century-Fox

so soon during its first run. 1 is not my place to attempt to teach exhibitors their business, but I feel they dropped thou- sands of dollars by not eashing in on the pleture's best publicity it obtained during is run; tlt Is, personal recommendation. I should imagine more business la achieved that way than በና uther.

read

✩ *

But with Freud on the spot, we have to search for fixations, repressed desires, phallic symbols, and all the rest of an analyst's nightmare, until you begin to be afraid that the manner in which you ent lee- cream might betray you as a

sex maniac.

for his

He was the Idol of his men, and when you come to think about it, out of a force of some only twa hundred 1,300,

the certain death survived objectives they stormed,

As 2 Alm, it has quite homely touch in that romance entera vin

war time England, with the "Mrs Miniver" angle of a classless war time society.

a

The storming scenes are very well done, as are the offer the battle scenes when the gallant warrior enters into the sex combat where he is invariably beaten.

Well, this is it, Western fans. And with Robert Taylor in the lead, you get a good standard for the cart who support him. A surprisingly good Western, Janes Garner 28 Colonel with John Cassavetes supplying Darby (he begins as Major) puts the quick lemperod nuisance up a good altow, on does Jack brother of Robert Taylor,

Warden

Master Sergeant

Soul Iosen.

Nice feminine

touches come

from Etchika Chourenu-"If you

\NCE more unto the weren't a baby, you'd know n 660rench.

dear working girl from a girl on the

she can't love you the way 1

And good girl Joon Elon- "Even if there's another girl,

do."

friends," and this time with streets," "Darby's Rangers," the Well, I think all this is a bit American version of the foo much for Jean Seberg.

David Niven as the casual British Commandos. morist, and incidentally the

Το “កង this hell-busting, There you have it; a battle guest, right in the devil-may-care, bring 'ein_back film with real soldlers; as rendy dead, epfe of World War II, you to fight in the boudoir as they will have to go along to the Lee are on the beaches.

S I A Francoise Sagan's novel, object of Cedilen station, in, an and as I have no intention you can

centre of the target. If you of reading it, I am unable searched everywhere, you wou

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"Bonjour Tristesse" now his natural debonair manner. showing at the King's and Princess, compares with the prose version,"

But the main theme, the cause of it all taking place, is very similar to Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night."

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Deborah Kerr bas her moments, rspecially in one scene where the finds she has listened to the old story once too ladies).

ofon. (Sigh

more,

Made in Technicolour and CinemaScope, this British film The latter

Columbia follows has Beked every

by Hollywood script writer, but io Guccess with the "Bridge on the less subtle prose of Miss Segan River Kwal." It is a sentimental has, I take it, easily been film of a gay world seen through moulded into a film by Director the eyes of a child of seventeen, whe is for too complex and Otto Preminger.

Obviously, when a novel sells horoughly mixed up to live. over three million

If you want my personal coples, the Alm-people have got to sit up opinion, I am almost morbidly and take notice. The question Interested in the theme, as it decadent is then, what's all the fuss represents a form of about?

art which In its supreme Well, in these days, leen-agers moments is given the classifica- trend where adulte fear to put a tion of "The Romantie Agony," pen, and Cecile, a polt young As an art form, it has attrocied 1een-oger has the feminine

the greatest artists, and I am sure that the more sophisticated version of the father Axation.

Now my unsubtle mind sees of Hongkong's cinema patrons nothing wrong about this, be will enjoy the film.

calize it seems to me that most

teen-agers get 'crushes' at some Ume, and the normal and healthy variety grow out of

them.

But Miss Sagan is not in- terested in the normal type, and her Cecile is an unhealthy little introvert, and so the film is on

In England it was given an X Certißcale. If I had my way, that would be carried out hore, for I do not think young and Immoture minde should ba allowed to gloat over this m.

saddle,

"Burse, and away...

its way down the hemlock path 600TS, to decadent romance, with a ittle seduction, and an aimust

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