1959-07-25 — Page 2

KING'S PRINCESS

SHOWING TO-DAY

PRINCESS

The Bat

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WALTER KOPPEL

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· MAZIKA ZOKK JOHANNES MEISTENS

MAKE WAY FOR: MARIKA

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"THE PRECIPICE"

Fujiko Yamamoto

Kenji Sugawara

Keizo Kawasaki

··iomi Nazor

Super Japanese Reture #

Directed by YASUZO MASUMURA Produced by MASAICHI NAGATA

(D! "Rashomon", "Gate of Hell" and "Ugetu" Fanie)

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1959.

FILMS

TE to the cree

THE Roxy nad Broadway

The Man Who Understood Women," which could bo Just as appropriately titled, The Man Who Misunder stood Women."*

The title is misleading," in that, It seems co Musical Comedyish, whereas the film is a serious study of love, ambition, and romantic infidelity,

Watching the dim, I was re- minded of the novels of Broft Fitzgerald, for the Alps contains the perfect morning shots of the benches of Southern France and life as lived there,

So also are the incongruous characters lib sketched to per- fection, and then welded into the narrative with seamless Joints,

1 dwell upon this, for the film could easily be a trial horne,

although an expensive cre, for the attempts that being made to put "Discachnní-. | cd r and

Tender is

Night" on the scree

are

thu

The aim is anecdotal rather than continuous in Chemt. andrelous in its treatment of the conventiona), yet retain- harmonious

Ju

д certain ellect, spoilt only by Holly- wood's concreto determina- tion to keep a happy radiog in sight.

CURRENT & COMING

ANTHONY FULLER

Loilio Caron and Cosare Danovo escape to happiness, in a scone from, "The Man Who Understood Woman."*"

The film has a certain origina- lity about it, boin in introduc- chase while he tries to trace Lion end effects, but the in- this strange bind song. After a

introduced to eldents

pass locg chase, we are shown the swiftly over Intervening time refection of Audrey Hepburn in and chow surmounting success a forest pool. are ringers, not original effects. The film does not settle down um Henry Fonda and Leslie Caron

in France. Then,

does the im and only then, burn with that fine inner glow oblained by authors like Fiz- gerald, and in a lesser sense by the author of the novel, Colours of the

"The

Day." which this film is taken.

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Anthony Perkins is sent into The ambitious Mel Ferrer very good; "Sorry, I've run out the forest, and then begins a directed the Alm, the theme of of bold heads, I can't let you the novel would appeal to him, have another Yul Brynner." As and he is quite intellectually enp1 say, it la different, it is able of unravelling tangled German super show production, skein. I am not. Nor did it appear and the ensembles como that Anthony Perking could very well. Result, the camera takes the

Marika Rokk, Robert Blanco The im for the most beautiful work. and, the starlets, sing. I have over souza,

dancing comes with the AT--|- can Negro baliot jazz, in short, It's fun and games all along. Bir screen and Eastman Colour.

Ex

unfair to take a sen Lence from lis context, and the Interpret it away from

Just whole, but

another will find our Federation foibles

amusing, just sọ does this business of Audrey Hep burn sel kodern audiences puzzled.

WAY

FOR

"M MARIKA (King's

and Princess) is a

show

ITH "The Precipice,"

site has the business film with the Ger. Wyou have a film that

For instance, habit of falling onto the ground min revue star,

Marika

ran away with five prizes at

film takes for granted, In cer- tainly open to question, "When and addressing it as "mother." Rokk, taking over the title the Asian Festival, and run.

She says to Perkins, who is role. naturally interested in this

her anlakhful, a woman is husband is to blame."

type.

Hongkong's, "The Kingdom and the Beauty," to a photo finish.

be

for their own

merits of this

to the Festival

of prayers: "Some The Colony has already seen Yet, of course, there is that business cynical blase touch all the way times, when I am in the hut, I how well the German film pro- through. I enjoyed it, but let pray to the man with his heart ducers put out this kind of

Showing at the Star and

fons will enjoy outside his cloak, but here in thing, with that sardonic touch me gay right away, I both literature and ulus of this the forest, I pray to the earth, which they bring to publicity Metropole, alm affairs, the equivalent of the able to judge my mother,"

satisfaction the For a long time, I tried to English "tongue in the check."

Blm us opposed of whem Audrey re- They portray people I think

For instance, Frank Flem- winner. who follow an minded me, and then, (and may tindersland.

gossip columnist

It le pot in modern Japan, fond ven) wall because I be

the peany ing, the

the Inter- writes: "Yesterday, unconventional

business of every among the nutional revue star, Marika

day affairs, with two youths they seek experience, and be dropped. I had found her be

who have itself, not foro in Stella Gibbons "Cold

3 passion lleve experience

her poodle."

mountaineering, the result of experience, to be Comfort Farm." Her name there Karoly, bought a hat to

was fine.

Behind the blah of show busi- nes, and the tinsel consequence

a way of living.

Woven into the An is the Lacme of reincarnation, The

match

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Vi. M. Hudson's romantis adventure

M.G-M

presenta

AUDREY HEPBURN ANTHONY PERKINS

CoStareg

LEE J. COBB

A girl as mysterious

ps she was beautiful!

GREEN MANSIONS

...the forbidden foresls beyond

the Amazon

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The clever touch with film is as it associates the sheer

beauty of Miss

It is a dangerous axlom in a

and to get it down on forest llly dies, but it blooms of publicity, is quite a good story, beauty of the ley precipice with

the austere why,

the ugain elsewhere. This is

in modern mood, accepting all Fujiko Yamamoto. conforting mesage presented

the conventions, or Jack of in the last moments of the film a Perkins walks towards an angelic Agure.

poper or celluloid, is tricky.

be This film, I feel, la to recommended for its theme and Chelsea and attempt; the very Greenwich Village. touch place

the I beyond

mass appeal pudience.

YXTELL, here we at

I have no way of knowing what the actors feel about a script of this type, but pre-

discuss sumably, they script before they

shooting.

I say clever, for it is a subtle

them, of modern show society. touch, and it is just possible that

Of course,

such

A in 14 subtlety could be lost, sur- builds up to a grand final, rounded, as 11 is, by the nd- presented humdrum affairs of every day.

and the revue numbers the musks are very good,

and mirably

the To say more would reveal thei stare plot, but the point is, there is no Marike, at least, not at first,

build up.

W. Saturday we are ag It seems to me that in this she is only a fictional publicity

for all

the easy going

again, and the weekly row day and age, theology-cum- about films begins all over free again. On my left is N. T. theosophy has misfired.

Chow and on my right,

A. N. Others. As usual,

Tho cracks at the agency, run by Marika under cover are.

once I have started things NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

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combat.

con-

Ignorar all the rules of fight promotion, I will put on the big event second, and then introduca

The the preliminaries. fender is Green Mansions," darring Audrey Hepburn and

Perkins. *andi Anthony starring Ice J. Calb, showing at the Hoover and Guio.

The first work that occurs to me about this film is "unusu)"' and there I am certainly on safe ground.

co-

The story balls from yesler- day before film-going was weekly event, and grandma was werping over "The Sorrown of Satan," while grandpa kept a stiff upper lip with "Green Manston perched on his kriče, →75 =`ilm X"mli"everything. A pantheistic approach to re- Helan. a touch of admonish- ment for violence, and a men- name, that comes out as clear- ly be a talk over orpssed wires.

The script writer has certain- ly played up the cameraman, I, no photographer, could for discern the expert" treatment given to the logis, Unfortunate- iy, Ba, beautiful as it is, the] script writer's job is to get on 'with the slury, and lostyá` the

pictorial stuff to the director,

In short, the the theme. Anthony Perkins is fideing from

cruelty Injustice and paillient__#cheming in high

placon.

and

SHOWING

HOOVER & GALA: "Green Mansions," Andrey Hepburn) and Anthony Perkins in an unusual film upon an unusust Miss theme.

wiilch has Hepburn as a kind of pagan forest child: Ferkins A fugliive from political state; and Leo J. Cobb the doing penance among exoile jungle growth of the Orinoo. ROXY & BROADWAY: "The Man who Understood Women." A belifiant sablie blase effort, an experiment in story and type. Title mis- loading, too trivial. The Alm concerns itself with ambi- "Lion, marriage,

10-

ndellly, Lealle Caron; Henry Fonda; and Cesare Danová,“ STAR & METROPOLE: ""The Precipico." The Japaneso lig which collected fivo.

at Awards

the Astan

of

Festival. A sistdy beautiful woman, and two young admirers.. Contrasted, Yet associated with It, in the absorbing Interest the two youths and in mountainner- Ing. The challenge of the precipice, and the lawless beauty of the woman, art the associate themes, care- fully mod-sklifully blended. KING'S & PRINCESS: "Mako Way For Marika," German Alm offering entertalugen & all the way, tiny, charm]+ inr. tuneful, and entnédy fare. Marika Rokk Johannes Xfeesters/ Kart- man Colour' with English -subclllion-

LEE & ASTOR: "Imišaškon of Life. Third week of this m 1. which ponès the problems of two Widows;" one while, Lana Turner, and ode coloured, Jaanita Moore,

COMING

HOOVER & ·GALA: "The

World. The Flesh, and 100- Devil. End of the world ntory, with three people lett alive, thus the e. Extre ordinary good for this kind of Alm, with an eerie feeling of, it could be feat ke this Harry Belafonte, Jager SteveTLE. BOXY & BROADWAY: “Old

Yeller" Technicolor oder BI KANOOTOerking

mongrel who nuzzles. Izla the hearts of a Wild West frebiler family, Refreshing 'tafo moniimmenfas WAKIJE, sukarst aides -Sop good show all round. Torothy the

Ho abows his manly power of endurance by standing under the blinding sun, and talicing to Soto HayakaWA and his tribe all day,

Lee J, Cobb le performing a kind of penance down in the woods, Then, down in forest, something -stirred, aridit ...? isyam. Futherland of

phs

Parkeri Tommy Kirk, STAR & METROPOLK) Tha

of town', with a dirty mind, and of how it threatened the happiness of love, two youngidorm - fü

and. Bandra

·John · Baxan Dee. KING'A & PRINCESS: "Tho Hangman," Story with % - popular "unas, - which "ha Robert Taylor in the role of -a-depuiz.......marshal with the xopulation of sending him. outlaws to the rsliews, Also Fess Parker, Tina. Louiso, und, Mickey Shaughnessy.

"Auntie LEE & ASTERI

"Mamo," "Somalind" | Rummell sparkles and shinly through,

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The beautiful Fujiko YamER » molo possesses that type al beauty that would be termed "fatal" in the Occident.

The allure of the mountains, the challenge of the preelpier, is I repeat, a symbol of the beauty of the femme fatale.

The film is extremely well- made, and the subililes make it easy for a foreign audience to follow its theme.

The shots of the precipice are wonderful, and the rope break- Ing incident which introduces a sub-plot to the film are expert- ly managed

But, I imagine, Western mem.

the audience of bera appreciate the interplay of entations between the youths; and Miss Fujike, and the man- Der in which convention musi put romance out of court,

The story, could of course, be told in any language, for s theme la commun› all. Yet, (this particular selling, seemed thai Ito me ́so apt in the repIG

Miss Fujiko's calm beauty, and certain confidence of palas, matched to themo and setting of the film.

FILM BRIEFS

London-William Hombock has bood signed by producer Sam Spiegel De assistent la director Joseph Mankiewicz on the production of the Columbla rica Tene, William "Suddenly, Lost Buranver

Hornbeck is already supdue ing the Elizabeth Taylor, Mont gomery Clift starrer. Interiors will be filmed in London with the balorior production silo ta be selected.

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A cable from Mr, Harry Odell, now in Hollywood:- Artista announced this week thele next big production will be Strests of Montmartre, starrin coulommporary New Xosk me, Lana Turner and directed b

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