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KING'S • PRINCESS

TO-DAY

America's Singing "idot in His Latest and Greatest Dramatic Performance Singing More Songs Than Any Elvis Presley Picture Yet..

PARANĚLOVÝ PRESENTE

ELVIS PRESLEY

TODAY'S MOST

EXCITING SINGING STAR IN A STIRRING DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE!

KINGEREOLE

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JONES MATIHARI HART MEGER-MORROW

PRINCESS

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Many Great

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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1958.

FILMS

I told you that the outstanding film of 1948, mädo

I Guards had a woman with a boldness and outspoken

drilling then, you wouldn't believe it. Yet that hap- pened last week at: Covent Garden. And the trouble was, the Guards couldn't keep in step, so they had to get the Ballet Mistress to drill them.

challengo never. before found In Filmdoni,

"The Big Country," the best Western sinco "Share," is older

of

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FÜLLER-

well. His silver head, the dialant viewing, frosty blue eyes, the dour determination of his ex- pression bring Hemingway' character to ure,

The boy, simple; faithful, Cager and sincere, is played by Felipe Pazos. A canny child. and one who will win marty admirers by this performance,

This then la the Alm. It one of the experiences of the cinema. Flims of this kind câns not come often, because even a Hemingway produces only such

work once in a lifetime. back- ed by the prestige of a lifetime of good writing.

Beautifully photographed in Eastmancolor, it concerns itself with a background baffin" Who, while journeying from England to the States, puts over a big business deal much to his own and his employer's astonishment.

The many admirers of Paul Callico will recognise the plot from the story, "The Enchanted Hour." The lot light, the humour whimay, springing from situation sch

..69 the difference Between British and American time.

The film is certainly a boost for the Queen Elizabeth, lacks nothing as far as production is concerned, but the script is weak.

example. **The Big Country" breaks every rule the Western. Even the desperate fist slugging is taken For a long range. The savage Ast- It was not their fault,

smashing blows are muted. one thing it was one o'clock in the

And ttlo sadist will another, it the morning: for

there. In short, was on the stage of the Royal satisfaction

Houer Covent Garden; you could say "The Big Coun Opera

I cannot recommend it, nor then they were wearing the try," is an escape from violence, uniforms of the Russian soldiers a pacifists reproach to the can any critic. You are not Yet having seen there to criticise the film, the

The laughs remind me of last of two hundred years ago; and rough ment, the music was an off beat tempo and considered its techniqué,

flim criticises you. It is above of Stravinsky.

rate it along with "Shane," and, and beyond the mundane things. week's boxing tournament, like they are puncher, In fact, it may Fortunate ""High Noon.”

you aro If you

is a ttlegraphed; and there. of its a tenth part become the greatest Western of perceive

to

the tcndenry

overplay them all.

whimsy and the blarney.

There is, however,'n fine cust. Kenneth More leads the fun, He clowns and improvises effective- ly as David the boffin?

.

The reason for it all is, they were making o fim of The Royal Balle, and it was made in three nights. Dr Paul Czinner who almet the Bolshoi Ballet is in

This weekend's crop of alma charge of the photography, and Dame Margot Fonteyn not only is very good, with an outstand- the Hoover and dunces, but is making the film. ing lim at

Ritz. "Tho. Old Man and tho Sca."

Cuards The reason for the being in the film is that on one occasion at the Opern, Queen Victorin was not amused. The

she thought, Upon which, sha

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merit.

TALVIS Presley, now Pri E

vale (first class) of the United States Army, some time guitarist and movie star, is now serving fo the

the

ง

Betsy Drake, although hardly picases as glamour girl, Gorgie, and Ronald Culver, immensely sure of himself, im- presses as the aristocrat, slick Sir Godfrey.

Summing up. It is all clean

considerable

land of Bacts and Beethoven. artless fun wit Kenneth More extra were so undisciplined, TN reviewing "The Old

But batore going to the war playing down to a role not

worthy of his said Fler Guards, were to be Man and the Sea," one with his wild gullar strung talents, with bright asides, or

hirr, he dedicated to And that is the way it is immediately in difficulties, behind LIKETİ, has been ever since.

the reason being, and let's us this celluloid epic, "King rather dock games, which, buoy showing at the up the show more then some

what. face it, the really great Creole," now films pass us by. We are King's and Princess,

Not, of course, that we shall accounted a town of Philis forgot him, even though he has tines, and no one has taken exchanged his gold-plated suit for the rougher garb of the In fact, his press serviceman. risk on us. "The Old Man and the Sea", agents are determined that we almost suffered the same fate,, shall not forget film,

dosic is my

United Artists, the company that distributes the great in dependent Flim Productions, are rightly congratulating them- relves on sweeping the board of Motion Picture. Awards.

is due to Their success number of factors, the

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least

nct being that the great artists, both hintricate and literary, have broken the bonds of Com- mérelal Dictatorship.

It is doubtful for instance, whether one of the Commercial Studios would have permitted Sir Alec Guinness to have written his script as be wanted it. Sir Alec backed his own flair. The consequence is "The Honso's Mouth," and Guinness gets the Best Screenplay Award to add to y other Awarda gained as an actor.

an

"The Deflant Ones," is other film which scores all the way. No Commerelat -Studio would have risked a film on the themo as it stood. The Artists took the risk. The result is the

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has taken Hollywood 25

Iyears to catch up with

"God's Little Acre,” Erskine It was parted up,, but it was Every week, rescued in Umé, and is now on snowed under with handouts Calder's best selling novel show at the Hoover and Bitz. which capture every minute of of the dreary thirties,

Make no mistake about It. ft Elvia's military duty, and his

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a work of genius, both in off duty moments. conception (Hemingway) direction, (John Sturges).

and

My heart bleeds for film. Ite ja on what we used to call

It was an attempt to stamp romance, out of literature, and both literally and metaphoric- ally, get down to earth.

However, the Anished result Nor have Warner Bros tried a sloping out pars, and he is

certainly in a hotel and is very good, and roughing it to play commercially safe, fall, although he is not likely to made with more realism than honour to them), by attempting ahed his blood for his country, would

have been permitted

to alter the theme and no la certalaly in paril, for the during the thirties, troduce a few tricks to get it over.

.

Frauloits walt at the door, of The cast is handpicked, with his hotel threatening to tear

the emphasis on lust rather There it is, as, Hemingway Uncle Sam's uniform

shreds than sex

Robert Ryan tokes But to the film. Ervis in all over the role of the gold search- wrote it, and the producere pay

Hemingway the compliment of mixed-up New Orleans: Ing farmver, Ty-Ty Walden, ú trusting him to tell it the only He is torn between love for a

very original performance, way it can be fold. For what shop girt who is boon but pure, Aldo Ray is Will Thompson, Is there to it? An old Cuban (Dolores Hart) and a bad girl the old man's son-in-law, and fisherman goes eighty-four days in a night club (Carolyn without " bile. He is cast Jones) down, almost persuaded the malignant powers

massed with aro against him.

Presley is most generous

Like, "Tahake

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an extremely challenging role

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Tina Louise gets the plum hle songs, using about three times as much breath role as Griselda. It is, a great A little boy belleves"irt hirrt,

Introduction, but will indubitably the ́average singer: On the eighty-fifth day he preferret the die in a language type her for sexy roles, She be the biggest hooks a giant marlin The film ünlenown to me, which went is reckoned in the struggle with the fith.

ha-and thing that has hit films since The only film to which I can

'He also wobbles as he Jane Russell strolled onto a sot

fico a felly at a compare "The Oki Man and the sings, rather Sea is the ancient classic, Sunday School party. "Man of Aran", and that guin- An excellent him for those ed much snob value because it who like it. was taken up by Mussolini. In fact, people who were tranet to death stood up in the Cinema and applauded.

The only change from the drown Ish

out struggle with the 66 TEXT TO NO TIME," is the introduction of ♫

now on alow at the few extraneous figures which Roxy and

Broadway, is symbolise the old man's what the British call,"

iest youthful vigour. The young lions, for good clean comedy," instance; and his tussle with a man.

thoughts of his

Yet I cannot escape the fact that I have been in the pre- sence of something' great

In his loneliness, while, ßight=. Fing the fish; the old man“saya, Fish. I love you and respect you, but I'm going to kill you?” Ako the change of the fa surely reflected in the words; "Man can be destroyed but ho cannot be defeated."

That merit you will probably admit, but you, will say, it is: Hterary merit. Yet the film really does capture the spirit of the novel.

As a flim, It belongs to that; class where you put your best books. It has a richness that cannot be comprehended in one glance. You realise it bewf longs to the greater things, the treasures of art which over- whelm I taken at one sitting, Spencer' Tracy, plays the part

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13 years ago.

Well, the film docg all the books did. It simply pours out the, Justy motions of this be- nighted family; their conflicts, their brawls

ghastly intrigues.

Yet there is humour of a sort, and there is a seedy grandeur in the theme.

their

The dim forms a remarkable contrast to anything else on show, and can be seen at the Metropole in Hongkong and the Star in Kowloon.

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HOOVER & RITZ: "The Old KING'S & PRINCESS: "King

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way's prestige plece made into a film by Warner Bros, directed by Jolm Surges. * Extraordinarily faithful to the script and relies 路 much upat dialogue pa A han vifui présentation, for

connoisseur; the wonderful photography. sustained Dowerful by Spencer Tisoy. Felipo Pazos as the faithfus urchila. Hig Screen and

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