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KING'S PRINCESS

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. AT 2.30, 3.20, 7.30 & 9.40 F.M.

SHOWING TO-DAY

Engene O'Neill's Most Controversial Play

OUT OF THE HEART'S SECRET PLACES

COMES A SHOCKING DRAMA ABOUT.. INTIMATE FAMILY RELATIONSI

Pamount prebenta The DON HARTMAN

EUGENE OʻNEILL'S

DESIRE

UNDER THE ELMS

SOPHIA LOREN ANTHONY PERKINS BURL IVES

Ducted by ELSE MANE-Produced by DÓR HART KAR + Senplay by SD BHAWA Paramount Release

KING'S

air-Conditioned.

TO-MORROW

SPECIAL MATINEES

At 11.00 a.m. 20th Century-Fox present

TERRYTOON TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Variety Programme

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

WEEK-END

PRINCESS MORNING SHOWS

To-day at 12.30 p.m.

Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland in "THE ADVENTURE OF ROBINHOOD"

To-morrow at 11.00 a.m. Columbia's programme: THE THREE STOOGES COMEDIES & TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Variety Programmo

To-morrow at 12.30 p.m.

Marilyn Monroe & Don Murray in "BUS STOP"

in CinemaScope & Color

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SHOWING TO-DAY

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MARLON BRANDO

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To-Morrow Special Show

At 12.10 p.m.

YVONNE DE CARLO in

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1958.

FILMS Current and Coming

ESIRE

by Lucy Downing

"D'Elms" the King's and Princess this the farm to him.

Instantly Anna changes her

Under the sun and in splurge of self- showing at pity talks vaguely of leaving

weekend, is a very earthy production with lust for the land obsessing three of the central characters.

**

hig

Fony

his

a

tactles. She lies about the boy's advances towards her until she recognises the cold murderous rage taking hold of her jealous

KÜZCS

anguishing escorts. Or will they?

their all.

When wailing death he slouches against a gravestone with relaxed charm and squints at the sun!

Patricia Owons, hampered by

The escorts will be equally fascinated by the delightful Christine revelling in her pro vocative role. Some will spare the unattractive clothing of the a glance for the more mature early West ere is not the plc- and poised charms of Joan Fou- lure of fresh loveliness which talne.

created such an impression in

fancee in “Sayonara”.“

Bonjour

A mount "The Law And

in

Was

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The

Lee & Astor

LETEL. 72436 Knoc

SHOWING_TO-DAY.

4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9:30 PM.

AEREO Balcar

dial M for Murder

WARNERCOLOR

FROM WARNER BROS. RAY MILLAND GRACE KELLY ROBERT CUMMINGS D

JOHN WILLIAMS BLOCK HOTY who the warracional Sango See ALFRED HITCHCOCK

ENTIRELY NEW PRINTI !

+

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

LEE THEATRE

At 12.00 noon

TOM & JERRY TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

ASTOR THEATRE

At 11.00 a.m

CHINESE CARTOONS

At 12.30 p.m.

PANCHO VILLA RETURNS

husband. Then she exerts all IL deplets the possessive her power to calm him, in- This lovely British actress her part as Marlon Brando's passion of Ephraim Cobol an planting the idea of a son und gave such a sincere and sensl- tuted former who puts his land hele In the oki man's mind. He tive performance In

But she tags along manfully before anything cise in life is infinted with pride at the Tristesse" es the ill-fated god- over difficult terrain and brings except perhap pride in his own very ides, but Anna is planning mother. This time she is the realism to her difficult role. virility.

Coundlan that Eben shall be the father sympathetic but betrayed wife. This

actress All the leading cheretem are bucated in England. She was "Between Anna,

son shall inherit young and that her youngest the estate. Italian wife and his

very attractive people in this probably a trophy winner in Bon Eben, there is n raw rivalry

Anthony Perkins portrayalm and Bradford Diliman not her local Pony Club. over the inheritance of the rich of the bitter and brooding the least so. He is the young Robert Middleton an Orturo whom Christine hos is excellent. It seemed sim- New England form, until that Eben is a powerful one. He is man with bone of contention is replaced intense and drumatic, doing a love affair, not terribly m-

portant throughout the Indian by the desire which flourishes well

Experi- with 11 unrewarding portant to her, Taller

raid and afterwards that he rather frighteningly under the characterisation although per- mental or analytical really.

the side of the should bo on wenthur-beaten elms.

The scenes are colourful. In goeds". The rest of the "bade" haps a little out of depth in

De fact Cinemascope

LAIKS But Ives plays convincingly this hirid love sequences,

WCTO 50 very bad, they were the massive triarch, Three The fest affair in the Aim and beautifully shot on actual

past hoping for nnywhy. In Paris, Nice, the location 10-your- wiver and three

Lash embrolla him with a

Henty Especially

Silva Yonne Valley and the virtue,

French their

against his rock- old lives

woman of easy

rolo hown egolism. On lips played effectively by Greta Riviera. Production and direc- Rennie He had a much more

Bravadocs" quotations from Holy Scripture Granstedt. But it is with Anna tion by Henry Ephron and Jean Sympathetic

Incidentally there were some sound blasphemous because he that a dangerous idyll becomes Negulesco. believes in

resemblances between with himself

marked a real love affair. monumental faith.

This im was adapted from n

T the Hoover and Para- the latter flan and this. Both and Imagent "Anna who piny and its stage origin keeps

had a hero who was all mixed opened with. gnot breaks has known only poverty

and prept through. Even the hunger und apent her hard blossunta on the trees In spring Jake Wade" is playing to up and as much violence as the young life In the home and time looket artificial, benuti such good houses that it viewer car halen. At least service of others, arrives as the fully so, yet I'm sure they were has been retained for an viewer of my calibre. third with vi the Justy real. It is the theatrical effect

Then there were the shots of Ephraim. At first sight of the which remains so vividly in other week...

scenic grandeur. Even rich farmland she becomes a

The cast is a very strong one villain in this lin pays tribute mlad when so many Herce contender for the whole othur Alms are forgotten or in the new wide Western trend. to the scenery ikening it to domain,

Robert Taylor is grimly hart- the Swiss Alps, "Whero every mudged into each other. She is opposed by smarting And

which some as the reformes outlaw prospect pleases and only man the scene in Eben, son of the second wife. Ephraim wildly shows off his who has become a U.S. nur is vile or words to that effect, been_the_com- who owned most of the fann virility at the christening party shat and then goes out to help might have and exhorted her son to west is so typically something out his past sins catch up with him. mentary, the inheritance from her slaves of a musical comedy, bul Richard Widmark is the vwy But what would Westerns be

personification

ruthless without of driving spouse who had caused irresistibly entertaining.

killing her death. Eben hus already It is assumed that this direc- killer. He quels his unruly thundering hoofs and Indians

Tils wild half- for had decided that more na- gang,

The happy fights of

uf whooping around? brother's who were disgusted by tural and convincing cinema Comanches and keeps an eagle ending makes it all worthwhile 2.30-5,30-7.30 & 9.30 || 2:305.207.30 & 9.30 their father's greed and in- treatment would detract

eye on his captive Robert Tay and patrons from the Hoover

Paramount went

KWOY humanity. They go off to mako this version of Eugene O'Neill's lor with pretty hostage Patriclu and fortunes for themselves in the play scripted by Irwin Shaw, Owens all at once. No effort at happy. Californian goldfields,

la so obviously a play and a play in which the gripping power is the inevitability of the approaching climax, the feeling of inexorable doom.

bought uut

one's

from

Then Anna arrives as a new eballenge to Eben. And when I tell you that Annu is played by Sophia Loren, you will realise how formidable the challenge.

This shapely and actress knows how to carry THE Becond of Francoise

TH buckets of water without buck-1 Sugan's controversial

talented

ling at the knees. She rolls up

her sleeves and her skirts with novels brought to the screen Certain Smile," n the air of familiar practice as is “A

soon as she sees the interior of brilliant film showing at the the filthy ill-kempt farmhouse which she transforms

without

the touch of a fairy godmother's

work.

She knows too how to make n man conscious of her pre- sener and ovuzy movement. Al Arst Elben watches with sulky resentment, then with reluctant

more

Roxy and Broadway.

The stars include a newcomer to American alms, the girl with an indefinable something in her smile is played by the charming French actress, young Christine Curere.

Rossano Bruzzi, equally married man charming as the admiration.

desirable Anna flaunts Infatuated with the smile (not The

of the Mona Lisa serenity) and ffaux- her charme even rantly, before the impression is owner is so right in the part. able young man with tho in- The shouldering warmth of his terest of a cat for a mouer dark eyes and innate courtesy Ephraim unaccountably in his love affairs will surely towards his youngest make many young viewers cast

sollens

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KING'S & PRINCESS: "Desire Under The Elme." An adaptation of the story by Eugene O'Nelli, Nobel and Pulitzer prize winner and considered to bo kis monter~/ picco. A New England drama of greed, infidelty and Infanticide. Burl Ives as proud and hard Ephraim Cabol; Sophia Loren as his third wife and Anthony Perkins as the covetous sön who falls in love with his stepmother. Not a pleasan film. The lower is shocked and almost mesmerised by ile savagery, yet there are shots of sheer beauty-treen laden with blossom and tite land the principals love so much Bophia Loren in Ideally cast as, the Italian peasant wife and stands up well to the strong, male characterisations. ROXY & BROADWAY: NA Certain Smilo. Francoise Hagan's precocious love story brought to the soreon by 20th Century Fox in De Luxe Colour.

Starring Romano Brazzİ, Bradford Dilman. Joan Fontaine, newcomer Chris- Hine Cerere Brzd singing favourite Johnny Malbis. Depleting a restless young girl's search for exdiemont and her discovery of a young boy's love and a married man's desire.

HOOVER & PARAMOUNT": "The Law and Jake Wade.” Red Indians scalp-hunting, desperate mexi treasure hunting and lovely gui held captive. These Aro

H..

some of the exalting Ingredients of the film - siarring Robert Taylor. Richard Widmark and Patriola Owens

(of Sayonara) In Cinemascope and Stetrocolour.

Produced by William

·Hawks and based on a gold medal *Lovel by Marvin

Albert, 11.

this stx-gun history reunites former hold- up partners with blood- curdling consequences, Bet In the sweeping grandeur of the High Sierras, A Western with sustained suspense and desmatlo climax.

LEE & ASTOR: "Dial M for Murder." Alfred Hitchcock's thriller with its significant Grace ito. which stars Kolly 143 wifo of Ray Milland, rusve playboy

and Robert Cummings no a serious-minded third side to the triangle.

There are the distinctive Hitchcock touches, simple sid sinister,” ranging' from the commonplace to the macabre. A film to Beo RESID walching for such things a scissors, keys 'and the ringkig of the telephone, METROPOLE & STAR: "Man In the Shadows." A Western of Ave characters who ruled the land of the lawless, starring Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Bar bara Lawrence and Bon Alexander, Powerfal dzama of a despolia catilo barod who dominates a western town until challenged by à courageous shorld willing to do battle for justion.

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