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KING'S - PRINCESS

★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★

BB the Scroon's Most Talked-About Body Beautiful Actress in Har Most Daring Role of Her Film Career!

BRIGITTE

BARDOT

DANIEL

CELIN

in

MAM'SELLE STRIPTEASE Directed by: Marc Allegrot

A Franch production with English dialogue

PRINCESS

WEEK-END MORNING &

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To-morrow Af 11.00 a.m.

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In Technicolor

KING'S

Air-Conditioned.

To-morrow At 11,00 a.m. Paramount Presents "POPEYE THE SAILOR

TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS"

To-morrow At 12.30 p.m.

Danny Kaye in "KNOCK ON WOOD"

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To-morrow At 12 Noon Tyrone Power • Charles Laughton in "WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION"

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DEAN STOCKWELL and BRADFORD DILLMAN

DARRY F

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at the

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"COMPULSION”

COMPULSION

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BROADWAY: To-morrow Morning Show At 12.15 a.m. "TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES"

Starring ROBERT WAGNER.

In CinemaScope & Colori

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Norman WISDOM 'in' "UP IN THE WORLD!!.

AT 12.90 P.M. "GOUBBIAH AND THE „CIPSY.GIRL".

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1959, 1

FILMS

66OMPULSION" (Roxy

and Broadway} is a glimpse into the human | mind from which the normal person retires in horror. Yel the extraordinary thing about this film is, it is trus In every essential detail.

All that is neilonal about it is the names which do not disguise for one moment the true identity, of the two depraved students of the Uni- veralty of Chicago who con- mitted an awful crime.

The year is 1024, and America in half way through the Jazz- agc.

The country is riding high on false wave of prosperity. The old world had crashed in ruins- following the war; wealth, morality, the new code of "high pressure success was with the States. Five years were yet to run before Wall Street crashed and the new wealth powdered Inta brick dust

Half-way through the jazz- REC. the world was taught what this now morality meant. The mumbo-jambo Jargon of Freud was on every- one's lips. Foi It was really a faini cobo of Waller Pater's axiom for living. Life is not the result of experienos; ex- perience Is the thing. The vividneas of life is to seek the half (it seemed to me) negroid rare experience. And what Latin. rarer experienes could there be than murder?

So Lebpald and Loeb, two rich, spoiled, perverted young the young raklers sought out son of neighbour, coshed him, and dumped his body in Fr culvert,

The Alm all maintains the myth that these boys were of high IQ, superior intelleels that were perverted by lavish in- dulgence.

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FÜLLER

Orson Welles pleads before the court for the lives of Loob and Leopold; from the

His mamma doesn't like it, her papa is anxious, but more than all, rich boy who insists on setting up his own house finds

don't like it. his neighbours

But on a crescendo of trum- pets and strings, Love Ands way.

A

The film left me with a nasty taste in my mouth. De Americans behave like this? Do the people who, moved

freedom of

into that Continent in the

DRITIC

tolerance push the coloured folk around like that?

This I fall to see. They cer- tainly maintained sort of

n

According to Nat King Cole, brille Mashy brilliance, bul sich you might find in a set of yes. According to Anna Kashn, pseudo highbrow students at any university. It in the kind

yes.

film “Compulsion.”

by his men, white, with many carts, camels and elephants look words, the film clearly ex- to the road. plains that McCrea is a huter because his wife unti chlidren

More than 2,000

people

& Astor

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MORNING SHOW

LEE THEATRE To-morrow at 11.00, s.10,

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At 12.30 p.m.

LONG JOHN SILVER

PRODUCTION Directed and Prodysed by HOWARD HAWKS

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were tortured to death by the stretching for half & inlle muce SHOWING TO-DAY 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

dions.

The film L

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their way out of the city an wards the village of Amber, six clearly anatomy of hatred, but it miles away, where the Rank Were Alming "North West Frontier."

the well trodden path of the usual Indian filme. Joel McCrea makes the most

Organisation

and 9.30 p.m. "This drama has been produced well every angle - direction, acting, script and casting."

Harrison's Reports

They had been recruited 10

Here's what

kappen wher Sweethearts

dare to

baty Cha

JUROR KASTET - DEGE KIES + HEMEL IRODEJN

Law1

În Cimanukaspy (

of a ticklish role which places play some of the gigantic crowd him as a revenge obsessed mun.

John Russell is sound in his into the safely

Eches where the refugeez rush the beleagueT'— straight part es

Travis, who ed city in the film. after much time finds a way of

Everyone wanted to get into finishing the carnage; while the act but they refused to take Forrest Tucker has his momenis it seriously. Shricking with as a straight speaking Irishinon. Inughter they looked anything

Susan Cabot is pleasing in

very small part as a Redskin but a panic-stricken mob ord what was bad they kept The scenes where the young girl. of "brilliance that Introduces newly-weds get their home

Main criticism of the film is, looking into the camera. four letter words into acadente wrecked is nasty. The scene it Lakes a long time to get Director J. Lea Thompson phrases; or says the outrageous whore two young overgrown cats going; but bearing the many WM perplexed. Then thing merely to bowl over the throw out nasty remarks is partí- Western fans of this Colony In upon a brilliant idea, ba played middle class mind.

cularly nasty,

in, here are the points of ap- upen the simplicity peal.

people,

Brilliant might be,

phosphorescent brilliance of deenying rlesh; something altogether rollen; and assuredly perverted.

I

If I am wrong about this, am right in saying that their "crime

of the century** Was exposed because they made the most elementary of errors; they. failed to cover their tracks.

The film is "great" as far as

I am concerned for the per formance of Orson Welles

In

the role of the advocate who pleaded for the lives of these two worthless wreichen fe is great; superb; over whelming; he pleads in one of the longest sequences of the lm. for the lives of these two perverts.

It remains only to say that he got them on with a life

It is a good film, a challenging film, one you had better tuke a

look at.

he

of the

"Fort Massacro" has an 10-

He told the Interpreter to an- But if MGM would like to usual plot. It has an extremely pass this on, I should like to say competent cast; there is a ne nounce over the speaker-system at the that this racial business is going flare-up Anish; and the charge that If anyone looked

agalrest the camera, or laughed, a streak of too far. We are getting rather of the cavalry too much of it.

Indians is thrilling and photo- electricity would leap out of the

against The faull, my dear readers. graphed

beautiful camera lens and give a shock to

whoever looked, Iles not in the colour of our country, skins, but the klad of nerven, heart, and brains our skin

housca.

ON LOCATION

Impressed. The crowd พดล The great trek out-of Jaipur No longer did anyone look at What a man does is not con- took place at dawn. Entire the camera or laugh-the 'takes treiled by the colour of his skin, familles, some with their ox were a success!

And the problem posed. by "Night of the Quarter Moon" is played in reverso sometimes.

However, insofor 09 the cinema can contribute to racial understanding and tolerance. welcome such Alms as "Night of the Quarter Moon" but space them out a little more.

"Mlease" is the nume

ventence; Loeb was killed in 667MAM'SELLE Sirip prison in a razor fight that followed a homosexual assault;

on my desic

at the moment is we have given to the French

the China Mail presa wire Elm, "En Effeuillant La stating that Leopold was Margueritte." Slight though released on parole last year.

The point is, you might not

with the manner figree which the reason for this "Com- mode is used to ex- pulsion"

plain this crime; the psychiatry might seen mid-hatter, but you cannot deny the perfor- mance given by the nekad,

Over the whole sim hovers The atmosphere of evil, even in the lavish homes of Loeb and Loopold, played by Dean Stock- well and Bradford Diliman,

Neither

will you be able to escape the controiled passion of Orson Welles as he puts, the case and cheats the hangman."

The film ranks high among the great films of this decade. li demands attention, and pleads that

answer be given for these crimen which are happily beyond the co03- prehension of the normal minded.

It is a great film, superlative In every detall, compelling to every way.

Mwar

TGM enter the racial business with their contribution, "Night of the Quarter

Moon," (Hoover and Gala).

For such an intelligent theme,

an intelligent cast is gathered.

it is, it is the perfect vehicle for Brigitte Bardot to take us for a ride.

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

SHOWING

KING'S

STAR & METROPOLE: "For

& PRINCESS: Mantacre." CinemaScope. T "Mademoisella StriplenaE.”” and Colour by Do Lux.

French film with English Cavalry versus "Red Indlani, dialoguo.. In which' Briglito - melodrama. Plot is of an

Bardot rock through her Indian bating Cavalry Ser-

paces with many variations geant who is holsted on hit upon the ald theme. own petani.

Kittenfah, Plenty of selion with lovely icenle backgrounds. „Joel McCrea, Forrest Tucker and Basan

Yet, as most of these slight Cabot.

·ROXY: things of which the French pro- ducors are masters, the flinity-Compulsion, well-worn plot comes out vers intelligent sumusing; and extremely pro vocative.

upon tho contury.""

the aim to designed to placed Miss B.B. in as many naughty poses as possible, and by now, D.B. must share, with Jane "of Mirror the world's the Daily record for losing her clothes yet maintaining her honour.

As usual sho attracts Ad- mirers; there aro scenes of wrath and jealousy, pay offs suggested; La short the standard French, plot for this kind of Alm.

Bat always there is BB. un- dressed, dressed, half-dressed; gazing through a mask; gazing under her eyelids; in short a set of perfectly posed scenes.

There is one sceno which has her playing with 韓 cati I noticed how similar were the expressions of B.B. and the cat. A picture designed for males, them wil probably be an all-male house-sonze lime over the weekend.

Again the music is good for this kind of film, and its partido sophistication should make it super-box-office,

If in doubt where he is this.

They act with sincerity; they weekend, dial the King's

are terrifyingly convincing; they Princess.

pose the problem; they fail to resolve it.

The advertising

20

copy speaks 66 PORT Massacre" (Star

of the two sweethearts who defy

FORT

and Metropole) is a

the unwritten law, Question CinemaScope Colour-De-

What is the unwrition Law? Ap- parently that white must

not Lux epic which is chielly marry coloured. Who made this concerned with an Indian current locks of fim literature, the Redskins. unwritten law? According to the hating cavalry Sergeant and white people, obovo all white Americans.

There is a sort of, confudan)

A "Night of the Quarter in the viewer's mind because Moon" has 'It, society, boy a Joel McCrom, the embittered.

· BROADWAY:

#Im

comment "crtio of the

Uaes

Action

EXY, yet in- triguing in B.B's falmitable fashion, Also Daniel Gelin. LEE ASTOR: “Ria Bravo," Three stars teamed in one Western Usuni tugredients. but made on more-luxurides scale. Easy entertainment. John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky・ (look 'n' Roll)

HOOVER & GALA: "Night of the Quarter Moon.". MGM's comment“ upota racial was faro s

the conducted in respectable suburbs of America. Baperbly produced cloverly using

Nat 'King Cole to pronormes upon colour and its prob- tema Jullo London, John Drew Barrymore. Anas Hasbi

Dean Jones.

for setual report Nel ing of the rich playboy murderers, Nathan Leopola and Richard Loeb, and their murder for experience of

Qui- Hittle Bobby Franka. standing for tho per formance of Orson Welles as the defending kawana: and Deab Stockwell Leopold,

homosextial madist who felt a "com- pulsion" to kill. Also Brad- ford Diliman.

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the

art:

and

COMING

STAR

METROPOLE: "Crime of Pamion.” Bar- baru Stanwyck in a sordid drama in which the under- world merges with personal ambitions, Strongy onat; tense; with Stanwyck plat- ing well in a difficult rojo, Also Blerting Hayden.

ROXY & HOADWAY: "TER Diary of Ando Frank." Con- persing the sitempË DË H Jowith family to hile from the Jow balling Nazi in Amsterdana. Emotional: deeply · penetratings, and of tremendous signiiicense. The diary is authentie. Billier Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut. Shelley Win- ters and Richard Boymer. KING'S PRINCESS: "I Happened to Jane.". Biarry Byo maadodrama which perta aus to prove that the benve boy soout can liek bir, bual- now any tinh, BROWNIES), in

nervous syzeck, finds solado issa" Indian batiner Sergent Vinopsis: khe - zavi, eld...ə Ulduz

Love affair with gai balt trish; le reckdered to be out De plaas

and

Jack Lemmat. Elo Ingredients of this amusing whimsy. Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, and Steve Forrest. Esatman Colour.

LEE

•

& ASTOR: "Stranger In My Arma" Drams of a woma widowed in Korcan War; a mother who haro worships a dead son; and a

Who Catrice stranger dreadful secret. This plot An WOWER Into EX Krester drama of + love affair. Powerful Alm of "imm GRO emotional toleroes. June Allyson, Jett Chandler. Sandra Doo

Coburn HOOVER. *

and Charton.

GALA: “The

Hanging Tree" Western, which has Gary Cooper Kannalog Maria Bobell · bick Bahwaith after she ornahey in stage nonch. Hit: Dom- pliesfed

Wentor frido słów paced; but rated

IN PEDAL TO Whte fi adeg

Night of the Quarter Moon

•

120 500 DEP

Spacial Matineo To-morrow. At Reducod: Admission:

Gala Theatro

at 11.00 a.m.

Cala Theatre

at 12.15 p.m.

Hoover Theatre at 12.00 noon

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Burt Lancaster Eva Bartok in "THE CRIMSON PIRATE!!

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