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KING'S PRINCESS

At 2.30 & 7.30 p.m.

At 2.30 & 8.00 p.m. 2 SHOWS DAILY

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1958.

FILMS

4th BIG WEEK!s week, Mr. George Jerry

NOW SHOWING FOR THE 23rd DAY!

13 SHOWS TO-MORROW & MONDAY:

SPECIAL MATINEE AT 10 A.M.)

CECIL B.DEMILLE'S

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

CHARLION

YUL

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HESTON BRYNNER BAXTER ROBINSON

TVOHWE

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JON

DE CARLO PAGET DEREK

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GRAND OPENING

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 and 9.40 P.M. Extra Matinee at Hoover on Sunday at 12.00 noon)

Charles Chaplin Dawn Addams A King in New York

The King of Comedians in His Nowost!

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At Paramount

10.15 a.m.

Peter Cushing Hazel Court in "THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN"

CAPITOL RITZ

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No Body

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STORY FROM A WORLD FAMOUS NOVEL-BOX OFFICE RECORD IN MANY COUNTRIES!

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FRANCOBE BAGAN'S

a certain Smile

SNIMAKSADRES COLON WV DE LASKE

ROSSANO BRAZZI-JOAN FONTAINE- BRADFORD DILIMAN, CHRIS FINE CAREKE - JOHNNY LATKIS

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 SCRIMSON : PIRATE! ||||| **WATERLOO, BRIDON'

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FULLER

(Gene Kelly) invited to cole- brate the Passover meal; and the Bar Mitzvah of Marjorie's younger brother. Against these intensely moving scenes are the episodes, tright holiday camp

#limpses of Broadway

από

Lewis; Marlon Brando, tiger hunting. The opening shot Weltner, Vice-Preal. Danny Kaye; Robert Taylor: is the best the cinema has seen Kirk Douglas; Anthony Quinn; in a couple of decades. Not only dont of World Sales and and the great Alfred Hitchcock the camera, but the sound track Distribution for Paramount for the best Hitchcock thriller is used to intensify the shatter Pictures, gathered all the yet. All this for 1959, and that is ing herve tingling sequence that Far East film. scribes to only a taste of It,

introduces the giant cat killer.

But more than adventure, a theatres. gether, and after giving us naked Mr Weltner three failure of nerve in facing the a drink, proceeded to lecture questions. The first was, what clnrging tiger introduces

The film is warm and pro- us on the film world. did he think of flm critics? His finshback to the Second World vocative in story: a wonderful answer was (BLUE PEN- War, where a similar loss of portrayal by Nalalle Wood; and WAN CILLED OUT...

feminine strong EDITOR) nerve hnd direful consequences immensely

for а fellow encapeo from angle; popular sengs and dance numbers; and a fush Betting Had the Time Alm reviewer prison camp.

provided by the producer whien been invited to play the mur woven through the theme is his audience gasping for air. dered man in Ilitchcock's new with the main plot.

love story, wholly In keeping comes out beautifully in Warner

Colour.

Beginning by saying he

no orator, he talked for twenty- Ave minutes non-stop, and when he had falsbed, he

had

thriller? (pencilled out.)

End Paramount along with other dim companies relied too much on colour and

new technical gadgets? Answer "Yes and No."

The theme of his spiel was "Who's afraid of the Bly TV. and, he said Paramount wasn't for one. He told of the mighty Homeric struggle that had taken place on the western shores of America. As I saw it through his verbal haze, I saw millions of TV sets advancing on Los Angeles, and being repelled at Beverley Hills, Suddenly, up stepped the President of Pan that. mount flanked by his two. This week in Hongkong is one Vice-Presidents, and the daunt of the brightest I remember for less three checked the advance.

new releases, with outstanding lims at the Astor and Lee, and

But those in front erled buck-

However, with this new loot Bm programme, the cinema is going to recover its ancient glory. Make no mistake abou!

wards, 60 some companies had the Roxy and Broadway,

to close down. But Mr Weltner cried "forward" and as a sequence, Paramount are on the advance.

Mr Weltner brought his but-

ders used to take with them,

and in letters of glowing gold was this sign under which Paramount will conquer. "Para mount's Faith in the Future."

A practical demonstration of this is, Paramount has entered into the biggest production contract ever known in the long history of its days. As consequence, Paramount's shares are at the top of the Wall Street list.

THE London critics put TH

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Introduced, Dr

The song, by the way, is "A Very Precious Love" and kind of haunts you all the way through the fim,

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TWILIGHT for the

I have never seen Stewart Granger better cost; the part is tailored * hls versatile character;

doubtless, wanting the part, and enjoying going on location, and sharing a love of ger ininting with the character he portrays, accounts to some degree for his magnificent per formance. Good also is Bar- bara Rush. She has none of

Gods" on show at those irritating characteristics the Star and Metropole, is which rob a aim of this kind, of its authenticity.

a large peale, Joseph Con- She plays up to the emotional crisis with rad theme, in modern set- controlled gesture, and her ting. Ernest Gann wrote timing is dead on.

the story, actually on the Anthony Steel us her hus- old tub you see in the film. band, the man who

always Gann, with

a flare for well cracks up in a crisis

re-

The story 13

old

cast. A magnificent performance modern romantic setting, for a reason with is so true for gets it all down on paper. He (lag with him; # kdr1}} up such a rave about is only when he plays the The question is, does the streamer, the kind the Crus "Harry Black and the game be does not like, such as

Tiger," that I took a special war and tiger hunting, he foils, film achieve the same

But watch the last ten minutes Bulta? trip to town to see it. Nor when he plays his triumph to the was I sorry I did, because full.

The film has all the aids for Seas The South Going Into apart from the the film

The production the setting. John Brabourne Jins

are dipped in Eastman Colour, being first class entertain-deane job. The photo- the wide seascape is held in ment, it is also among the

graphy exquisite. Vivid, CinemaScope. first few films which de angled, tracked, and held, it strong and two themed. One is monstrate #

the shape of brings the tiger country right to the struggle of the leaky

the Pacific: the you. clever shot is that seen cante with things to come in the film through the eyes of the luriding other is the strange crowd who world,

the for liger, another proof that

to their themselves, seck ims have got down All the carelessness has gone, all the hazy cover-ups

of plot business. that mode sketchy

production, A man'x. Aim made for Britian,"

missing. Hollywood and women, I unreservedly recem captain, Rock Huda

by narrowing down mend this film, it cannot miss, over a part ready made for him. their producers are way bacic to it is top rate entertainment ali Opposite is Cyd Charisse in a general had been guilty of alt-

the superb touch that made the the way. And before 1 forget: straight dramalle role. Whether ing the public too lightly, but lm the universal entertainment People will start talking about her former roles sit too heavily the future, (and suddenly the of the public.

not know, but the supporting role played by upon her, I do skies brightened) will be well.

"Harry Black" Is a top line 1. S. Johor as Bapu. I bet he is somehow, she never believes this ship will ever sail, and one is The fact of

and the matter is, adventure story,

many signed up by Hollywood

on the Paramount have signed up viewers will be reminded of Pinewood after his magnificent conscious she is safely

the whole Black Production set, and Sophia Loren, Clark Gable; Major Jim Corbett's book on performance in "Harry

and the Tiger," now showing at thing is a lark. the Roxy and Broadway.

Then Mr Weltner turned on the vox humana, and we eat with the tears streaming down our faces. Mr Weltner confess ed that the Alm Industry in

are

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

SHOWING

STAR

METROPOLE: "Twilight for the God" Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse. Esatman Colour adaption of

Ernest K. Gana's best seller. Has Conrad-Uk setting with Bock Hudson a broken down captain of ditto lenky tub of a ship,' Cyd Charleso »

And ал a passenger, American who does not with to return home. Sot in the South Bes, which Gann knows like the back of his hand, this film should ap peal to all who like romantic backgrounda And tenre, situation. ROXY

0.8

BROADWAY: **HRITY Black and The Tizer."

Stewart Granger, Barbara Bush, and Anthony CinemaScope БАЙ

Steel,

Colour De Luxe für version of "Harry Black," by David' Wolker: 'Unusunt angle

which has physical, duel be. tyynen man and tiger, and sychological- Langlo in which allustions of tiger hunting flash back to earüler Instances. Extrem'èly polishop production; fine camera work; skilful direc- fion, Intriguing story. Adds up to Arst class entertain- mont, KING'S & PRINCESS; "The

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Commandarents.” Charlton Heston as Moves: Yuj ́Brynner 'as Pharaoh; Anne Baxter: Edward Q.. Hobinson; and other stars.

Greatest spectacle yet to hit the screen, Magnificent in conception, great in produc- tion, the greatest drama of The Old Testament comes to life with vivid reality, Docil B. DeMille's 50 years of All making culminate in

greatest

of all Alm spectacles.

the

LEE

& ASTOR: "Marjorie

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reasons best known to suicidu! passage home.

Cast as the shell-backed sen takes

The aim is adequately spaced for the story, and variety of scene is given by clever camera work. The story itself which has Hudron as the determined

The Lee All for this as the designing woman, asks HE Lee and Astor have Captain Bell, and Cyd Charissa week with Warner Bros tions of such a plot, for in the takes "Marjorie Morningstar," a end, love triumphs, but

an awful beating on the way, Warner - Colour

romantic

other melodrama with a powerful Amid all this, the

best, characters. all a bit off feminine appeal.

contribute their characteristic Adapted from Herman Wouk's roles, so what with fights, plots, best-seller, it is more

It is some mature and counter-plots, than most films of its kind, and trip. It seems to me that Warner

Urged on by such triumphs as

High and the Mighty,"

Bros are the first in this Colony "The Morningstar." Warnér –

Colour romantle melodrama of a Jewish girl's infatuation for an improvident producer- songwriter. Story intel- direction shrewd. guing: Natalie Wood clever in the lead, Appeal, strong feminine:

productiea lush: signature tune, the hauntOS, "A Very Frecious Love." Claire Kelly, Also Gene Trevor, and a great per formance in assisting role by -Ed Wynn.

HOOVER $

COMING

STAR & METROPOLE; "The to love and a 'tino to đó” John Gavin, Lila Pulver, and Thayer David. Cinema- Scope and Eastman Colour SWI melodrama adapted from Erich Madla fëmar- que's best seller of romanor And tragedy in 'bömb. shattered Naal Germany, Message somewhat obscure, but acting impressive, feminine suzio strong, back- geònada “authentic, climax Iropla Sands the audience out wondering and ponder Ing on man's labumsalty to man.

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BROADWAY About Women," Laurehoo Harvey, Diane Cilento, and Eva Qubat. Eastman Colour maurient comedy which wuddenly plays straight. Afl 'about the love Me of an elderly aristocrat who reveals h past in an alltmpt to save i hila_mn-in-len's, margiaan. S Finch-back Mylo; exat hand. picked. dipolloy light" #på sure: Edwardian background.

KING'S & PRINCESS:

and the Colonel" Danny

of

to re-enter the lists with films and confidence in Gann es an that accept the fact that 3

author who has placed. OVETY cinoma audience is not neces novel on the screen, "Twi sarily composed mentally Hght for the Gods," became n retarded adults.

natural for producer Gardon Kay. But this time he could not "Marjorie Morningstar" Iz

a good beautiful flm, and at times its lick the author. It is production level is so high you film, an interesting film with a the super compelling romantic theme, but could put it among class. It does not, however, re- the author has a power of ex- the presalon which the studios can- tain that high level right way through. Yet I have no not attain on this occasion. heillation In recomanending it as one of the finest films of its

PARAMOUNT:type to hit this Colony for WATCH FOR IT!

For plot, ita main theme is of a young Jewish girl Pi strictly orthodox family, who gets a crush on an improvident producer-songwriter, and her eventual awakening.

"A King in New York." long time. Charles Chaplin's first Bri- tisht fllin. BÚU has the Chaplin genius and the stick production. but theme Iz more cruel and not high- lighted with laughter 21 In the old days. A kinder Chaplin put over the story better. Strong appeal in nil sections of audiense; got to be seen; tale strong with heavy portion stant. Chaplin out of patience, buź Fortunately not entirely aut of humour.

Kayo and Ourt Jurgens. Has Kaye moving into the roles he wishes to play.

The explolls of a Polish refugee

'Neeing before queeming Naxia. Columbla presents this new look in Kaye Alma. Artistically, very high; superb direction; hali Thea- ire Guild association.

LEE & ASTOR: “A Night to Remember," William Mao- Quilly's production of Wal- ter Lord's best welter. The last hours of the Titanie presented with a realiam never before schieved 10- Shy cinema. Aforing: terri fying: Blas of, univerzál appeal. Kenneth More and huge star cast.

HOOVER & PARAMOUNT: M.G.M. Musioni dubbed "My Fair Lady" at the file, Clllier and glow, CONEST enchantment, and charm plus, smart direction, départ du de production; "~~the Elest real bright entertain- fantor hő? year. Lesio Caron, Maurion Cheralior, and Louis Jordan. Clemis- Boogo and Metrovalour,

I have never seen this adole- scent problem faced with more courage In the cinema, yet not for one moment is there any einbarrassing moment, nor any Indelicate one, come to that,

Natalie Wood, who co-stars alang with Gene Kelly, her first big chance in films, and she really takes it. It in a nice performance, and I use that adjective in lis proper cense; she la sensitiva, refined, controlled and artistically in- the tegen!, displaying all moods and the frustration Tat adolescence moving into woman- bood,

Claire Trevor as the mother also hunde in a time sensitive performance, and although... í đội not rate Kelly up with them, I am bound to say I was con- vinced with his interpretation of an artist whose amblfionis ““out- strip his ability. Moving also is the whimsical Ed Wron as the|| | uncle-cum-guardian.

Speaking from the produc- tion level, the film has a strong Jewigh streak, but its buala theme of a young girl, troubled inwardly about the problema of désire and" affection, torn bo- tween the strict # Mosale | Law and the loose affection of this age, wanting ever to be modert yet bound by the ageless” tradi- it of her people, die nim"Sa wo excellently made that it now sente no facial by religious barriers.

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ALDO STARRINGS, MARIYA

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TREVOR WYNN SLOANE MILNER JONES

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