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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1959.

FILMS

LADYS Aylward, some

G time servant giri, Hlving

CURRENT & COMING

by.

ANTHONY FULLER

in the prosale suburb of THE INN OF THE

Edmonton, North London, one day heard the velce of God calling her to misalon- ary work in China.

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Academically she was qualified, but having an abun- I dance of courage and determina- tion, she saved her own fare and made her way to the mission feld.

Arrived in a small village in a northern province, she felned up with an old lady who passed on the messige of the Gospel from a wayakke inn.

The old lady died, Gladya Aylward carried on, learned Chinese, became a Chinese citi- zen, the Jeps came, bombed them out, so the led a hundred or so children across the hills to safety.

original after so many stereo- typed Hollywood campus girls.

Gillian Vaughan you know; che is in "The Horse's Mouth."

Lewis comes beauti-

SIXTH HAPPINESSs the leader of the exclu-

alvo Dodo Club. If you get what 1 mean, so English.

The film was made at Cam- bridge, lovely shots, misty and so nostalgic. The high spots are the rig on Magdalens Bridge And, the invasion of the Girton College bathrooms,

The indoor shots were made

and the amn. at Beaconsficid, eernes in Big Screen and East- mans Colour,

THE big local film news

This week is that the

J. Arthur Rank picture, "Ferry

to Hongkong" is winding up. Most of the cast and staff fly off to England on Monday morn- ing.

Ingrid Bergman and Curt Jurgens in a scene from "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness."

up

The grent thing about "The Inn of the Bik Happiness" showing at the Roxy and Broad- way is, it is taken from real lif Embellished of course, CinemaScope and Colour, with Interpolated Incidents to give the nccessary box-office appeal. But taking it all

Mark round,

Robson, directs this aim for Twentieth Valhalla for the next week especinilý, where the majority Century-Fox has scored be- or so, opens today. cause he has chosen a warm - hearted subject from real life. Misa Bergman has been given a dealt role. She is a tall Gladys Aylward is woman.

Misa Bergman speaks small. with a Swedish accent. Miss

who

Aylward with an English accent, and cockney one at that. In spite of it all, Bergman makes a grand job of the fim. From those moments as a housemaid scrimping to save her fare, through the dire incidents of brutally so lacking In the cockneys, to the Anal triumph as a feminine Pied Piper.

suppiles, that inherent need of

calenture

prefer action to dialogue. short, its a naturall

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They have achieved filmland's Impossible. The picture is right schedule in splic of the fact that they have erected studlo at Deep Water Buy, ball seta.

hired a local band for background music, and done the thousand and one other jobs associated with a major pro- duction.

This film is a proud re- minder, in a way, of progress we are taking. I wondered why it was packing them in all over England and Americi, g

reason for mention. then I occurred to me that it

ing "Bachelor of Rank's production manager, Hearis" British which is necessary

comedy John Dark, is full of praise for the Chinese workmen who have selentine nge, showing at Mies to our modern

the Lee and made this possible. "Where in when all wu need do Is to Astor, is because it is the the world," he asks, "could you press 2 button and blow kind of film that will appeal get a studio creeted in four million or two of people the

to the Chinese weeks?" other side nt

the world, to especially blazes

audience.

Nowhere I know, and when Just as "Doctor in the House", you see it with its compileated tcored heavily because of it wiring system, its own power fun among the academic unit, the huge enmerns and they were individuals, there medicals, so will "Bachelor of sound equipment moving about movement about Heart, trump the trick, for it on a stage, you realise what a shows fun and games at the great Job Hongkong ingenuity

University of Cambridge, and

cun achieve. The sacrosanct bathrooms Di Girton (Ladies College) invaded by the male undergraduates.

Not that the Vikings were more civilised than we

was no mess them,

Curt Jurgens, thanks to the script overcomes his difficulties. His role of a Eurasian officer In the Chinese Nationalist Army.

Is an interpolation, but a good every one as far as the film requires a romantic slant.

Once the

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But

gong sounded, jumped into the ring and the devil take the hindmost.

of

Sad it is to write that this.

the inst

appearance Robert Donat ever,

Frail when he took the part, alling as he played it, his por trayal of the Mandarin even tually converted to Christianity is a triumph of the spirit over

the flesh.

Sometimes it has been given to those who have chosen the atoge for their career to play themselves off with wonderful Enes. Surely this is the case with Robert Donat.

The

The

returns Herdy They tell me "Ferry to Hong- Στι case you've forgotten Kruger to British pictures, in kong" makes a wonderful pic-.

Then again, it is only your history, this 5 what this he is a German student who ture. happened. The

Vikings, be- has been awarded a scholar right that the Alm potential of coming

this Colony should have been bit fed up with ship. hanging around at home used

realised by the major British to club together, and then

Curupany think up an excuse for leaving

home.

The excuse was the Kingdom of England where one, Alfred, ruled, while he was not watch ing cakes cooking.

On the way up to Cambridge, he meets Sylvia Syms, who is now so well known to all Hongkong.

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Certainly all three stars seem quite happy and full of praise Student life, with its eccentele for the way the Alm has gone. The You would have expected thera gas is the hilarious plot.

Club, the Dodos, to be a bit jaded after twelve Inevitable where Hardy Kruger treads on hours work every day, week in, hallowed ground, to become the week out, but not They seem victim, the agent, and finally as full of beans as ever. As the supporting cast is good

film has Ernest the deus ex machina, of the all round, perhaps best is Borgnine leads the Viking war-exclusive society, Athene Seyler. Sho puts every- rlors on this occasion, during With Hardy playing two such thing into quite a small part as which the King of Northumbria contrasting roles as a young the missionary Miss Aylward is stain, and his wife is raped. Nazi (The One That Got Away) joins, and che is convincing.

funful Liverpool, England,

The result of this was

Is Tony student; it is dimeult to assess emptied somewhat

of Its

Curtis. He eventually becomes just what is his line. He is juvenille Chinese population a slave in his father's land, but equally successful in both roles. when they all went to North his father is unaware of the fact Undoubtedly he is heading away

that Erie Tony Curtis is his con. up, possibly to Wales to play the march across

became the mountains scene.

outstanding ar Alms,

Sylvia Syme, a fellow Lon-

she has taken It's a sort of blter bit story,

It is evident that Mark Rob- con did not know what a win-

This is now so complicated that I intend you to work it out for yourself. Apart from the

and

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London news. Producer- director Alfred Hitchcock and Herbert Coleman, his associate producer have been around doing exploratory work on a "No Bail for

suspense story. the Judge."

saw a

picture carlier this week, taken by a nows photographer of Alfred Hitchcock walking grimly past

Perhaps yout an romantic

ner he had in the Infant school cuts over the head with Tech doner, I especially welcome, the Old Balley.

song, so finely orchestrated with background music.

A truly wonderful Alm, mado incerely. not pi, even humorous at times.

THE Vikings" which

turns the Star and Metropole into a kind of

STAGE CLUB

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nicolor gore excs,

and hands Every role lopped off during the fight, the has been good, and this is of a High Court London Judge As the girl who helps who is charged with murder. most unkindest cut of them all the new boy, she is at once de With the Osual Hitchcock is when ample bosomed Janet

lightful and refreshingly suspense. Leigh, playing a British Prin- cess, 19 described £5 "an old crow with all the bones sticking out" I considered Ernest Borg- ning both inexact and ungentle-

manly for that remark.

me

after

Another thing that puzzled

was, Miss Leigh, months of captivity and no con before the advent of modern detergents, keeps her form ft- Ung gown spotless. Aise her character. On that account full marks to the Vikings who were both officers and gentlemen.

The Vikings, obviously tin- comfortable in their whacking grant hats and leather bruces, could be a rough house gang in the Far West, or the BowerY with equal caso,

It is Kirk Douglas who sum- mons up thoughts of Thor, Odin, and Valhalta. There is a dort of rough honesty in his Derformance. A sort of look in his eyes that is convincing.

A

Bort of expression that he really belleves that if he is hit over the head with one of these battle axes that weigh about a tan without the handle, he is straight off to the happy halla of endless boozing and fighting. The Vikings, omitting it brash script, is a tremendously exciting Alm, with the genius of the camera, Jack Cardiff, taking the shots. It will enjoy 10- menzo Juccess in Hongkong

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