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WEEK-END MORNING & MATINEE SHOWS

TO-DAY A 12.30 p.m. Dirk Bogarde Dorothy Tutin in

"A TALE OF TWO CITIES"

To-morrow At 11.00 a.m, "WOODY WOODPECKER & VARIETY CARTOONS"

In Technicolor

At Reduced Pricas:

KING S

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To-morrow At 12.30 p.m. Clark Cable Burt Lancaster in "RUN SILENT RUN DEEP"

70 Cts., $1.00 & $1,50

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW At 11.00 a.m.

At Reduced Prices

U-I COLOR CARTOONS

At 12.15 p.m. Special Matinee "THE TRAP"

At Regular Admissions

ROXY & BROADWAY

★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★

Owing to length of picture please note change of times: AT 2.30. 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

THE INSIDE-THE-LINES STORY OF A COLONEL'S WAR AND A WOMAN'S LOVE!

HOWARD HUGHES

presents

ONE MINUTE TO

ZERO

- string ROBERT MITCHUM - ANN BLYTH

RICHARD EGAN

bereid be

TAY GARNETT

Prodek

EDMUND GRAINGER

SO BIG

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ROXY & BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow.

Extra Performance of "ONE MINUTE TO ZERO"

ROXY; At 12.00 Noon | BROADWAY; At 12.15 p.m.

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THE GOLDEN PHOENIX

1st Floor Manson. House

Presents

OLLIE DELFINO

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Dynamic Danceros

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1959.

FILMS

Whave wall it once, I've JELL, well, well! If I

said it a dozen times; his- tory is the only good feilon. left to this worried old world,

"The Naked Moja" (Hoover atid Dajo) is an example of what I mean.

Those who dabble with paints and brushes will know better thun I; but in my unartistic munner, should describe the Painting, "The Naked Maja," a The greatest pin-up in the world. who enjoy a bit of Those romanile scandal Identify the ploture with a tonner Duchess of Alua. Art historians, so I ant informed, say that this is all nonsense.

However, the Alm is not con- cerned with doubts. Here is Ava Gardner, Duchess of Alba; and here is Anthony Franciosa, Francisco Goya y Lucientes, world famous painter,

"The Naked Maja" cont" cerns itself with the Jave affair between the Court painter and the democratio Duchess, Such incidents an her having a husband, and ho a wife who doesn't under- sland him utlar bearing him

and twenty

something children, is tactfully passed

oyer.

Come to that, maybe his wife was glad to see him hang up his pyjamas somewhere else,

Tho film Is tremendously colourful, and I must say the dance scenes are a delight to watch.

CURRENT COMING

by ANTHONY FULLER

Ava Gardner and Anthony Franciosa In a scene

The dialogue la worthy of ter nim. On the other the Inte Cell DeMille. Duchess has all the Saturday Aun has been trying to outplay pleture fan requires. the Queen. The Queen comes buck strongly and trumpe Ava

*

from "The Naked Maja.”

hand, Jeff Chandler takes on the evening role of an Air Force officer who carries a secret; his doing the ticcent thing part of the hinge of the plot,

* with. "I'll show her who's Queen 66 the King's and Charles Coburn, and hiver 667THE TRAP," showing

Also featured in the film are,

of Spain."

Well, that's democracy for you, but the picture la not very Princess, is a suspense-pack- Inclusion makes it "must" for democratic, the King having ed film which will keep the me; and Mary Astor who plays some of the hol pollo put 10 audience on their toes from with her accustomed skill the death now and again simply beginning to end,

role of a possessive mother-In- law. because he gets the worst of it when he has a showdown with

his prime minister.

However, "The Naked Maja" will pull the fans through the doors of the Hoover and Gain It has Ava Gardder: It has dazzer fights with Technicstor bloodstains: It has naughty glimpse of sliken sheeled beds; and it has Benor Goya sketching with lightning rapidity his famous cartoons. I always did wonder how a man with a wife and a mistress. and 20 something chlidren found time paint. Well, any- one who Can knock out a masterpiece in nve seconds or so could And time. And as this film shows, he does.

NE

MINUTE

The main fenture of this im If you have read, "And Ride Is Its [ប casting Richard A Tiger," by Robert Wilder, you Widmark in the role of a gang- more or less knew the story, for land lawyer brings to the film the fim is based upon the best a convincing performance of a selling novel. smooth, ferocious type, as merk with a gun as with a pen.

West, the locale is the Oregon trail;

And along this trail the Modoo Indians ravage to consider- ablo advantage. The Alm has Mature as an ex-Army Cap- lain, a widower following the Oregon all accompanied by his ten years old daughter,

Teba Waters.

It is at this spot that the (ther stora aro introduced. Miss Stewart and Miss Domer- on the trail gue are niso

corted by a group of cavalry which is also escorting a pay-

Toll wagon.

Unfortunately, the late Civil Looking at the film for this

on different weekend, I think this is the War found them show for those who like their sides, so they don't team up.

what's Of course, you know to be not only entertainment

and it and thoughtful, mature

happen now but going to

The Indians make on Awful mess of the cavalry, but in order tint this 1m continues, they spare the Misses Damer-

Lee J. Cobb, head of a crime syndicate is a man in a hurry to get out of the country before the authoritica can investigate well done and polished for does.. his activities.

Standing in hils way ore members of his own family.

Homance enters with Tina

Com

presentation.

Dand

So

open

Louise, who 4.8 Widmark's NSCORT WEST" (Star and Stewart.

mid the great sister-in-law and former

Metropole) spaces and under the starry sweetheart further COM

Mature, skles, Mature does his big man brings Victor already plicates this plicated sliuation.

Elaine Stewart, and Faith stuff and the poor Indians cop

il more than somewhat, The fim plays up the angles Domergue to star in an

Obviously, with two young of the family divided between action-full Western adven- Indies, someone 14 playing lawmen and low-breakers; but

ture. the strongest point of the whole TO pleturn is the director's ability

"ZERO" Uoxy and to play up suspense.

Some of the shots are Te mintscent of the best Westerns: the deserted garage and fuel alation. The entry: the shot coming from nowhere.

Broadway) is a war Olm; all the Incidents are based upon situations brought about by an unspecified war, but it is quite easy to fill in abibited. the blanks.

Conven-

gooseberry, and 35 ID self- "Escort West" is in fact

4xpecting him director will Mias tolerate such behaviour, good example of the tional Western at its most Domergue, suffers * nervous forward breakdown; by this stage, I effective; a straight

near one mrself, what story told in a straight forward was

with the Indians refusing to manner; belekky developed and punctuated right through with take no for an answer. rough and tumble action. The So there you have Victor ktory Inles you back to just Mature und Mies Stewart alone. after the Civil War. and for A good film of its kind, told The director Kivos the sudience the grandstand Anish these wito ake the old resound simply, but exploits the oppor Doubtless, this would havo

they demand, This takes the ing romance names of the old xunities to bring suspense.. been a better film with

more form of a duel between a plane), skilful editing; as li is, it is n crowd pleaser in that It contains and car.

suspense.

The climax of the film is un-

Excitement suspencet and many good sequences of thrills galore are the charne- teristics of "The Trap," together With the advent of this war, with kome good casting und Colonel Robert Mitchum convincing performances, ordered to evacuste ali Ameri-

cans to Japan, but he has trou-

bie, with widow Ann. Blyth, who

has « disposition for serving

"the bont-line.

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

STAR

HEKorein-War... has

Getting her on the last plane T provided the American

the with quite a

is the finale of the first suspensu novellats and film producers

Naturally, sequences.

bit of back- colonel gets wounded, and the

arm of coincidence is ground material; and some- long

that stretched to breaking point to how it occurs to me get him to the hospital where the men who fought in Ann Blyth nurses him back to Koren came off worse than health.

their elder brothers I knew

Of course, they fall in love, in Europe. but the customers have not I nem sick and tired of seeing

these young veterans

yet had their money's worth.

of the

The next molive is the mis. Korean War stalking through understanding motive, ar

the the pages of Retion and crossing proof that the course of true the cinema sercen, hag-ridden loves never did run smoothly. by nerves.

In the affairs of his duty, the

form

"

(Les

ju for that reason that colonel is called upon to per- "Stranger In My Arms

seemingly

Astor) gels, a high rating Jaburen and

I recko action. Aan does not like it, and from me, at any rato.

mature in strip off Colonel it, superb in plot;

production; and directed with In sympathy. We are now ready for the strength and

short, it is very evident that lang last battle, and it comes.

*Stranger in My Arms" is a

tears Mitchum.

The rest you can gucax.

As you see, it is not very Slm the producer Ross Hunter original in theme, but I suppose believed in,

no love affair over is, excopt in A strong and experienced cust the mind of the lovers. On the are assembled for the film.. other hand, this is the kind of Any attempt to outline, the plot that has brought pleasura plot would destroy the strong 10 all the world ever since men emotional impact of the film, but started marching away to wor. I have mentioned, Kores, it is Kobert Mitchum azid Ann væed incidentally to illustrate Birth are aid, hande às this the departure of the hero to thuy kind of film, and are never war, his supposed herole death extended by the calls la intila; his memory and its the director makes upon effect upon his mother and his them

widow.

June. Allyson play with Cbviously, the audience is in

of thé mind all the limo, and, this sympathy the role

many, young bride, so drastically FUSPSIUM. DEUENCES, ÉTO varied, and exciting to all the widowed; and from there, the requirements of those who de Alm is a whirlpool of emotions Metalwhere people struggle to komp mand action,

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METROPOLE:

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exciting

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poda

Escort.West." In Viclor ACQUENDES;„Und an absolute- ninture ar ve tenule kolilty trietal climax" Riehard"= IN BOTY of my incident following the Amerleau Civil War, Triangle problem that la solved along the way. Also Elaine Blewart

*Thr HOOVER & GALA:

Naked Majn." Film based upon tio - Inclient of history's most scandalous pin-up. Perpetuates tho rumour that the Maja is the Duchess of Alba, (Maja Z. loose.tration), Ava Gardner as the Duchem of. Alba; and Anthony Francious as Goya the painter. KING'S & PRINCESS;' "The Trap." Another new look fa Westerns In which a law man does his own law en-

• forcing, Öriginal in theme: superbly photographed;

STAR

LEE & ASTON; "Stranger in

Based My Arma," "Written on the Wind,” thia film tolla the story bi human emotions in confllet with ideals and ideas. Ex- cellent cast who performa with conviction and power. June! Allgrohj Jeff Chandler: Sandra Dee and Charles Coburn, HOXY & BROADWAY: “One Minute to Zero.” An action picture with background of war. Chlef characteristio is that is doutains many good enquances of suspense, Pre- sented by Harold Hughes; Stars Rotiert. Milichum and Ana Blyth.

COMING

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JUNE ALLYSON JEFF CHANDLER

Stranger in My

Arms

ANON SARORA BEE CHARLES CETURN MARY ASTOR-PETER GRAVES-CONKAD NAGEL

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THE NAKED Maja

AMEDEO NAZZARI / GINO CERVI / LEA PADOVANI

Screenplay by

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