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THE CHINA · MAIL,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1958.

FILMS

THE battle between the Motion Picturo indus- try and Television" wages outside this Colony. Never- theless, its effects are felt here. At the moment, there is a dearth of good the On filme available. other hand, the flims that are available are infinitely better than the average film of the past few years.

The only way the 'Motion Picture industry can get CUB- tomers la to go after them. And this is the way they have dune 1

every film

coming

Almost from the mujor studios now is a production beyond the scope

טיפ

screen.

of the present Usually, there are huge scenes, often

Iush crowds vast

whatever be the settings, bul subject matter, it is produced in a manner which Television cannot compete with.

The word

quality

has got back inio ·Him

production. Knowing the millions of feet of rubbish that art belug month 10 every potired out keep the expanding TV industry tex, 20th Century-Fox, Para- MGM, and mount Pictures, Ranks have gone in for the with every super production

new m.

The result is tower And better filma. You will atrondy have noticed the trend in this Colony We are getting Als that Are playing over Two weekends We will be getting some that will piny over three. Three new Bims to hand this weekend, and two of them with World War I backgrounds, the other our old friend, but

Read wageing Tarzan.

दराज and take your pick.

three

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GOOD flim, as ancient Gaul, is divided into parts; production; direction; and photography. Taking them one at a time they arrive in 20th Century-Fox's, "In Love And War," now showing at the King's and Princess we are brought right up against Jerry Wald's CinemaScope and De Luxe colour productjun

in

Now the name of Jerry Wald is very well known, and Hongkong wo associate him with Buch productions

"Peyton Place."

a9

of Wold is the suprizonta

screen production. It modern

13 chsy for even the most

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FULLER

Victor Mature" and Anthony Newley in a scene from "Tank Forco.”

the fm's two hours, there 13 not a weak scene in it.

these

to follow that when events are removed from the Immediate, people are able to sit and watch them portrayed the screen. Meanwhile, the younger genera- tion are curious, 19 were we, who grow up after the First World War, and want to know what it was like,

Some of the more squeamish will find the action shots a bit Loo much. All the better. The more people see of what it is ilke, the more people will think before embarking upon murderous expeditions

every fow

Contrasted with years. these shota

awilt ore the switches back home. Such (lm making is superb.

is Lev Along with Mature Genn as the co-star who leads the break-out. Also Anthony Newicy, a rising young Beltisk actor who plays a Cockney. Bonar Colleano is a Pole whoso only interest is in killing Ger- mans, and Anne Aubrey as a bar girl, All the principal sup- porting roles,

Coming now to the photo graphy, it is difficult to pick the outstanding shot among many. I think, however, there are two which call for mention, and I hes between these two.

The approach of the Japaneso tunk which is knocked out by the most sensitive and refined member of the male cast, Brad- ford Diliman. I could exhaust exciting drama of desert wat all my superlatives on that fure should have a large follow-

ing.

alone.

Or the dying Japanese soldier who calls for a drink, but is ready with an anti-personnel grenade to lay his benefactor.

Among so young and talented

Technicolour,

Filmed in CinemaScope and this all-action

F

must be forty years a cast, it seems a shamo to

ngo since a wild man select one as outstanding, but for

of the woods sheer sensitivity of performance, walked out

give it as opinion that France and informed the uncritical Nuyen in the role of a nurse cinema audience, in words the screen, gives such reaches emotional encounter at flashed upon

"My mother was an ape." Tarzan of the Thus

Its highest.

However,

E

portrayal that

there

are other

ms to discuss, 30 I wind up Apes thrust upon the public

this famous ape, man, quickly as he could write them.

09

This latest eple of the Petur

Pan of the jungle is

"Tarzan's Fight for

about, 1 do not know.

called.

Life,"

although what he la fighting

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It is a long time since I have with and Tarzan, memories of Elmo Lincoln and Buster Crabbe, I thought, (no offence meant) That Gordon Scott is a bit of a alasy com- pared with the earlier portrayers of this seemingly

immortal role.

In the first place, he has a wife who yes In the trees, DRC somewhere among thu same trees, thero must be a beauty parlour.

He also has a gon, not that wo should be surprised, but his

all the idlum son has

of an American boy in his dialect.

also Д There

monkey, Cheeta they call him, and in

19 the best my opinion,

actor in the film.

There

stull,

quite a bit of rough

a fight with a python, which Eve Brunt, Tarzan's current mute, Jooks

during

on with the conildent look of a person who knows the snake has stepped out of hla class.

that In spite of the fact Tarzan has been knocking out the animals for forty years of 80, h every Alm there is some which up and coming animal fancles its chance It steps into the ring and gets the old 'one two,' and finishes up as a skin rug, or a nice handtag and shoes to match,

There is a nasty witch doctor named Fula (James Edwards) who looks

has come as if he

plug race horses. He gets his, straight from Epsom Downs tip- animals when just as do the

they got in Tarzan's way

However, Gordon Scott, the current Thezan, swings through the trees in the same old way. swims quite well, but not so well as Johnny Weismuller did, but who are we to complain. The kids will lap it up. colourful sequences, right ways triumphing over Wrong, the villain caught at the psy- chological moment, the Hed up in a reef knot; the Bun skinned, the animals all put in their place.

Its 11-

sako

Oh, what a lovely Saturday

by giving-Jerry Wald the credit who were devouring the novels afternoon, at the Hoover and for this new venture in film of Edgar Rice Burroughs about the Paramount. craft, which sends the cinema soaring to its former heights.

And as a postscript, Wald recaptures the old montage shot with the added visual icchini- calities of moder

Watch the writhing atom bomb ciput change into the belfry of a church tower where ring the belis of peace.

former tankman should be

S

A myself.

a

casual filmgoer to see that his able to speak with some Imagination holds the whole

There authority on "Thuk Force," production together.

are no bits and pieces, no tags which comes to the King'e

or unlicy adda and ends to be

and Princess this weekend.

fitted in. The larger the assign- 1 find however, that I can't ment, the vaster the Canvas

the

upon which Jerry Wald paints for the simple and obvious that I was never his picture, the more stressed is reason this fortunate characteristic of taken prisoner due to Filmland's number one direc- fact that I had a turn of

speed those days that modern Olympic might well envy.

tot

Such them is "In Love And

War." It reminds me very much of "All Quiet On The Western Front." Perhaps that Is because It tells the same theme If not the came tale.

It shows that the battlefield, as every fightingman can con- Arm, is a place of fearful desolation, where ali the Jingolst songs back home seem but an empty mockery. Where friend and foo are drawn to- gether by the one experience they have in common, Suffer-

ingit

A

runner

On the other hand, I have long wondered why all the World War II oples went to the Royal Air Force

more boys, when exciting encounters went on in the desert inside the tanks.

I do

Richard not know it Malbum was in the Royal Tank Regiment; he has written the story from which the film is hased. What makes me ask is, ho has Victor Mature as

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NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

KING'S do

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SHOWING

PRINCESS: Vie- tor Mature and Leo Genn in Warwick Production, Columbia

**Tank Release, Force," Made in Claema. Beope and Technicolor, this

you film takes

into the North Africa desert battle between Benghazi and Tobruk. Made with realtaa, with strong characterisation, and full of invident, makes an exciting lm. Romance comes via Luclaps Paluzzi who is building big reputa- tion in British films.

Mado East-

STAR & METROPOLE: "A Time to Love and a Time to nie." This unusual war- time Berlin film held over by popular demand In CinemaScope and man Colour, this film is un- usually sensitive in its ap- proach to the effects of war the ordinary raan. Upon Strong direction, sympatho- excol- tic treatment, with lent performances from John Gavin and Lilo Pulver, · make this the outstanding

"No more war" fim. HOOVER & PARAMOUNT: ""Tarzan's Flaht for Life," anniversary The fortieih film of this ageless apo man. Some

adventures now

for មក

Xareau, thought Colourful, imagine he is stretching the long

fantastic, good arm of coincidence, I can set

photography, plum a · alon

The earlier Remarque put it American serving with the Bri this way in his

"Atish Armed Forces. Now it you novel Quiet On The Western Front." A German soldier mys, "Why don't they put the Kalser and your mind at rest. his Generals in a ring, and let khem fight it out with the other

dela?"

Jerry Wild does

When I was at Catterick in: the early stages of the war, we had an American in our squad, and he was rough, tough mer- not allow chant, such as Mature portrays. this film such a naive state- How he got mixed up with us ment,

but lo

"every thinking I don't know to this day.

Hej. filmgoer, he poses the problem.

hnd not much to say, but we This is the hell into which your assumed he came via Canada, come and husbands enter for but now and again he contri- some obscure primitive doh?- buted to our discussions such lam universally entertained. authenile

statements about What are you going to do about Chicago, that he was held in We used 10 Innenso respot. of call him "Yank"

ILT

Granting that the theme the film hoo

my unqualified Columbia Pictures present appreciation, both in produc- thin CinemaScope Technicolour to action drama which has Mature leading a breakaway from

tion and story, I move on

the next point; direction.

Obviously,

a

in dealing with Tallan Prisoner of War Camp.

the blood and quis of war, you The highlighted events are tho have to play with youth, for it story of their encounter with merelless desert and the purruing enemies,

Is youth that pours out its blood the

+

performanos from the monkey,

ah make this ideal film for the children who

not are

100 critical about the bows, whye, and Gordon Scol wherefores.

aa Tarzan; Eve Breat as

• Jaze.

"Ias

BOXY & BROADWAY:

Love and War." The "All

Од Quiet

The Western Front," of World War II 20th Century-Fox assemblo the brightest galaxy of their youthful stars to make this film. Made by Jerry Wald, it la superbly handled, Col ourful, na cruel as war con- frosted

sentimental with home shots, Wald exploits

the theme to the maximum. A major contribution to the cinema. Hobert Wagner; Dana

Jeffroy Wynter Hunter: Hope Lange; Brad- ford Diliman; Sheree North; and Frence Nayvil LEE: "The Thief of Bagdad." The late Sir Alexander fantastic master- Koria's

extra- ploco recalling the vagant magle lore of "A Thousand and One Nikħta.” A film in which the pro- ducer revels with a superb wonderful ozat, and some

New irtok photography. print. Conrad Veldt; Babu; and June Duprez

COMING

KING'S PRINCESS: ""The William Holden, Key." Boplita Laren, and Trevor Howard send in three. KNO pdrformances in this Carot Reed CinemaScope produs- flow of war-time Plymouth; The tile is unwually api. ae drama surrounds a key which is handed bu by the tug skipper to tug skipper. wordja Beedy grandeur, a romance, yot an outstanding Aim of considerable qurÏÏ» ties. Superbly produced, with sharply skolched ober- noterization,/..

STAR & METROPOLE: "The True Blory of 'Ah Q′′. A Chinese ploture in Man- dialent. Hongkong darin preduced, this film won the Loreane Fontival Award for the bort male setor, Kwan Bhan.

PARAMOUNT! HOOVER &

“Olgi!". MCM MuntanL Leslie Caron, Murico Chevaller, and Louis. Jour dan, tad the cast of a musical versich of Colefta'm

Light, entertaining, definitely ammafog;' a romanito Parig of the early days of this benfury," *

on the battleftcid to salve the offended dignity of old men.

Mature and Luciana Paluzzi 20th Century-Fox rely upon

give the romantic tumi to the the young people they have

saga, Misa Paluzzi -playn aa been carefully nursing over the

ILaifars girl who help tha last fow Years, so you get

The of the Escapons, Robert Wagner: Dana Wynter;

nim the murderbing tenk Jeffrey Hunter; Hope Lanzo: Bradford Dillman;

Sheree battle which took place between North;

Benghazi and Tobruk. France Nuyen;

novel. There is quite a fashion as Mort Bahl.

and The method of direction'de wae fime at the moment, re- to with back and forth from calling the vogue in novels and battlefield to home. Throughout law of the twenties. It sverňa i

And

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cascade of lilting wong, A *light romanile plot make thi an entertaining' fim. AUD In cast; Hermione Eva Gabor; and Gingold; Isabel Jest. ROXY & BROADWAY: "Old Yeller," Dumey Technicolor canine comedy melodrama. Has an old mapret đối in nams pari which win the frontler affections of family. Plot revolves around this. Refreshing subject, treatment down-to-earth warm, affectionate, engaginİK. and Very moving scenes, superb soenery efforts, Dorothy McGulto: Fen Parker; and Tommy Kiek. LEE & ASTOR: “86% Fury.” Organisation fim starring Blanley Baker, Victor Malagien, and Lasiana Faizal, Flated on Location Itt Spain and at. Pinewood studios, tails of the amoroths and otherwisó adventures of non-going fur crawl. 'lood entertainment. on more modest linów 3310- térosting, alwayo;- dirested Eridfield, Munka by Or American-born and TEIK smkonted' produser, direvior,

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CHUNG YEE DRAMA GROUP presents

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The Big War Thoy Fought! The Big Loves They Found!

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JERRY WALD'S

IN LOVE AND WAR,

COLOR by DE LUXE CINEMASCOPE

Starring

Dana

WYNTER

Robert WAGNER

Hope LANGE

Bradford DILLMAN

Joffroy HUNTER

Shores NORTH

Franco

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