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KING'S • PRINCESS

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Paramount presonts KING'S: ARTISTS AND MODELS

Starring Doan Martin • Jorry Lowis

PRINCESS:

Paramount presents HOLLYWOOD OR BUST

Starring Dean Martin • Jorry Lowis

KING'S

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TO-MORROW Special Matinees

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

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1958,

FILMS Current and Coming

DUNKIRK

by Lucy Downing

bome

the volatile has lost ita in no glamour in muxi or sand polished, credible and full of But Christine as

charm, even when

Little Dominique prefers the bright miracle. Sir Michael and blood,

Hatila of Parts, especially after naughty. Balcon's. "Dunkirk" showing What has been recorded. is

her brother's death which sad. at the Hoover and Para- 2ie boustful self-deception vf The colourful sequences now dens her parents and dims the playing as smoothly as the river flows almosphere of her flower-filled the phoney war, the mount hos reallam and down of the might of the enemy between the tranquil meadows hone Imagination but no miracle. and the heads In

Christine's the sand. bordering Then the historical record of town, in the Yonne Valley. A fine job has been done endurance at the end of the narrowing down the huge con- ine under the screeching Luft. - fused story of the retreat na afle attack.. sprawling as the Dunkirk beaches but in this presentation the legend has been stripped of its spiritual sigullicance."

The adventures of Binns the reluctant corporal and his com- the panions who pass through German lines to the perimeter encircling Dunkirk make ex- cellent cinema. Each character isation is a work of art, the showing through the

man

Saldiler.

The fact that the huge eva- cuation inadvertently coincided will a national day of prayer

previously called by His Majesty King George VI and thot sanog of the burning town des cended as for and shrouded the English unusually smooth Channel for the last two days u1 the evacuation has been ignored.

John Mills is magnificent and; lovable as the cocky Little cor- poral who really wants to get home to his Mum, but has other odds and boda to get home too. Ray Jackson and Fred Grimths

their lot who moan

as the "bloody rearguard," are two of the splendid supporting players, but it is Richard Attenborough as the spectacled shrewd type Dunkiric "siting pretty" until who the greatest surprise of all.

m.rprised wat

He is pathetically when Bernard Lee as a the correspondent who knows a little more about what is going on and is grimly reminiscent of Past blunders, lambasts him for being in a reserved occupation. and After all I have a wife young lafant nt home, thinks the garage owner In Gelf- Justification. But he does leave them.

(So also has the frantic stram-

TERRYTOON TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS PROGRAMME ble of French civilians fighting

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AT 12.00 NOON.

NAUSHERWAN THE JUST DANCES IN technicolor Sohrab Modi, Nascom and thousand others.

PRINCESS

to board the evacuation fleet.)

These two mien The ordinary folk at home in selves ferrying the towns and villages of Bri- craft across the tain knew almost nothing of difculi decisions

There what was happening in Belgium made.

caines of acting and France.

formances.

er. WEEK-END.

MORNING SHOWS

To-day at 12.30 p.m. Audie Murphy

Keiko Shima

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NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

SHOWING

PARAMOUNT: HOOVER

Flan "Dunkirk."

Matry Goldwyn-Mayer picture of the days of deliverance for many men of the Brilish Expeditionary Forces on tho beaches at Dunkirk. A war film stripped of glamour and without any indication of the miracle of the final days when the smor of the burning town and docks blanketed

survivor-

skrown Bands from the constant Luftwaffe attacks. The Royal Navy gols scant mention ther but the or- diary

soldier is starril. Mills at his super- John lative best as A cor- paral who Deyer wanted his stripes anyway and who bring back the remnants of his platoon leti behind to demolian bridges. Richard Attenborough as tho

garago - Owner

spectacled with wife and young infant, He didn't want to get mixed up with the phoney_war_and ***Unthink!ng people started to

Meanwhile men on the beaches did-up to the neck. Then think. Some took unfamiljur

the steps to churches, chapels and cowering or rushing from

another civilian hero, Ber- relentless aerial

nard Leo who died bombardment

tho Eospel halls on the day of pray-

depicted only some of the beaches among the men be to save. An was trying Prayer became contagious, troops diorganised by the dive-

these are wonderful charao- Then almost before the women- bombers, Where were the unlis

ter who did get back to the benches

studies and there aro folk had time to face the loss of their men in the British Ex-in compact formation, despite

many others, bubbling willa were everything?

humour in the most 'des- peditionary Force, they

perate situations. home. Thousands of them pour-

ROXY & BROADWAY: ing in through the Channel parts, stations and depols. Mine was among them although didn't know it at the time.

The people of Britain accept. the ed this as a miracle rallying-point of the war.

So many scenes on the beaches repetitive, but. there were were no shots of the men who dug themselves in and remain- ed dug in with soul and body-

for day Wearying munotony and

and nights awaiting their charce to be taken off. They did not all There is definitely no Mrs dart from dune to dune present- with largel Miniver aspect about the story ing the Luftwaffe written by David Divine and practice by running like terrified W.P. Lipscomb, AN the rabbits over stubbled corn, glomour, heroica and glorious retront stuff are cut to the bone, And this is right. Any old soldier will tell you that the glamour may be dreamed up before o after the actual battle but there

Pare

IGCAŬRANT &

NIGHT CLUB

Admittedly the terror and. confusion was there, but in the

for desire

realism

balanced picture would present some of the dogged Brilish army discipline which persisted companies ng well us in dividuals,

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"Dunkirk condemns the un- preparedness for war and mutesi the stole courage and sacrifice under a rich pattern of burban reactions, but it is a film to wee und one which will be remem. bered.

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terns, shockers and film to see a picture of charm and sophisticated

romance.

A alm in which the only harm

gentle heart of Jona Fontaine and youthful A dealing of the arrogance of Christine Carere,

done is another crack in the

Such is "A Certain Smlic,"

and showing at the Roxy Broadway. Better than the book, I had no impression of warmth and colour after reading Fran- which roise Sagan's best-seller

has been acclaimed throughout the world. I didn't care to ling- er over its pages..

on and

But "A Certain Smile" alm i could Be again again. Perhaps chiefly for its relaxing value. It is so pleasant to watch the performances of the four leading players, All are

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Certain Smile.” Brancolie Sagan's precocious love story brought to the screen by 20th Century Fox in De Luxe Colour.

Starring Rossana · Bruzzi, Bradford Dillman, Joan Fontaine, newcomer Chris- Line Carere and singing favourite Johnny Meihis. Depicting a restless sourag girl's search for excitement and her d'acovery of a young boy's love and a married man's destre.

per-

events in Hangchow where they BTC giving formances.

An Imperial mandate has been received that 800 at- tractive young virgina are required for the Imperial Harem from the Hangohow District. Marriage brokets are kept busy while familien aro arranging weddings and betrothals.

, an eligible bachelor, refuses a wealthy bride, be- cause he has fallen in love with Phoenix whom ho marries, but he is taken by husband hunters to the Magistrate's Yamen, Phoenix disguised as a man goes to look for him and is also caught by the Magistralo's men. So the groom and his bride in male clothing meet in the Famen. There is a complicated judgment docld- ed by the Emperor's Envoy which saves the situation, KING'S & PRINCESS: "Hugh Hell." A tale of terror and templation on the mowolad Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps. Elaine Stewart

the SN

Who woman квадрогоня forces her company upon a party of Ave men bent in search for gold.

John Derek la the hand- sonte leader of the expedi tion

marooned by Arctle weather condition in a log cabin with a highly-charged atmosphere.

Directed by Burt Balaban, this film is fall of drama. and excitement. METROPOLE & STAR: "Wor Drums. United Artists' drama of war between the Apaches and early sciilters, involving what is described se the West's bloodiest товидске. Starring Lex Barker, Joan Taylor and Ben Johnson as a revenge- seoking Indian sklef, a Dexican hostage and sooul- franiter man ITSDIO-

LEE& ASTOR: "Husband Hunters." An Arfacolour Chinese historical film by the Feng Huang Motion Picture Company, Hongkong. The stars are Hɛla Moon and Hao Yuan, A travelling acrobat and his pretty daughter (Colourful Phoenix)

are involved in

COMING

ROXY &% BROADWAY: "Orders to KIL" An out- slanding filra with

on almost unendurable climax. Brillant direction by Mr

Asquith Anthony

Based прод true Incident in which an American bomber

accepta pilot

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A special arsignment to Frenchman

of suspected betrayal Paul Mamie (recently or Hongkong Stage Club) # the killer; Loslip French as his victim. James

Robertson Justice, Irene Werth, Eddie Albert and Lillan Gish are also in the excellent cust, HOOVER & PARAMOUNT: "The Prond Rebel." Alan Ladd and Olivia do Havilland in Technicolopṛ Alm of 12 man's search, a woman's longing and à hoy and his dog, David Ladd ia the 10-your-old boy and King, his colilo sheep dog. A Western adventuro story of deep human interest,

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tively.

Indian ritual dances and spectacular shoẨn of the mountainous Utah 'country- nide are also featured in a flin which reveals the Indian viewpoint of the early Western days.

KING'S

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PRINCESS: “Gun-

WAIK Apother gumen who

Western of

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walk down the middle of the street and die. Starring Vax Heflin Teb Hunter, Kattuyn Grant and Jamta Darren, Mickey Shatigh- Testy an a featured player

an old prize- personifying firbter. Columbia Pletare ja. Cinemascope. and

Technicolour. METROPOLE & STAN. The Last of the Fart GuLDA'', Universal film of the end of the gurale era in the lands of the West. Jock Mahoney and Gliberi Raland with Linda Cristal fa tilo statring roler. Ments of excite racht, hors and gunulsy. LEE & ASTOR. "The Wind Colourful Cannot Read."

by J. romantic production Arthur Rank slatring Dirk and Bogordo, Toko Tard

under the Ronald Lowis, direction of Ralph Thomua, Location, India in beautiful Fastmanosiour.

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THE MOST MEMORABLE LOVE STORY OF OUR TIME!

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FRANCOISE SAGAN'S

a Certain Smile

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