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KING'S PRINCESS

`★ ̈ ́ ́SHOWING ́TO-DAY ★

Here is the screen at its greatest...

Columbia Pintirci mun RITA

HAYWORTH

STEWART

GRANGER SALOME

CHARLES LAUGHTON

WHEN JUURTH ANDERSON-ŠI CIZINC HARDWICKE

MARRET

BASIL SYDNEY: MALNOCE SCHWARTZ

ARNOLI MOSS ÅLAN BADES -

Technicolor

SPARRT KLEIER - Produced by BUDJY ADLER

Bom Dimted by WILLIAM DÆTERLE - A DECKWORTH) CORPORATION PRODUCTION

PRINCESS

TO-DAY At 12.30 p.m.

Humphrey Bogart "LEFT HAND OF TO-MORROW Ar 11,00 a.m. 20th Century-Fox's "MIGHTY MOUSE AND VARIETY CARTOONS" in Technicolor

KING S

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20th Century-Fox Presente

Gono Tierney in GOD" in CinemaScope

|TO-MORROW At 12.30 p.m. William Holden Jennifer Jones' In "LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING" in CinemaScope Color

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TO-MORROW At 11.00 a.m.¦¦ TO-MORROW At 12.15 p.m.

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OF COLOR CARTOONS"

in "THE MAN BETWEEN-

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starring

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THE CHINA“ MAIL,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1959.

FILMS

“CÁPPHIRE," at the Lee

and Astor, is really

a "whodunnit" film, but so provocative is ita plot, and, so handpicked are the cast, so expert the direction, and RO authentic the atmosphere, that it stands head' 'and shoulders above the ordinary run of that type of film.

With Encial hatred, as its background. It is much

more, Clever than the usual alm dealing with that theme, With- out mentioning the films which have given themselves to tho raclul controversy, they hava been effective only by coming down on one pida'or the other rather heavily.

I must say that Janet Green who wrote the script has rue- ceeded where others fail bes cause, first she has intelligence, and second, she is not afraid to report what shoes And what she recs is a problem she states in a very good tag line.

Detective Craig ways to Detective Patrick, "Well, that's sòtvod that” To which Pat- rick replies, "We've solved nothing, all we've dots is to pick up the pieces."

Which is not only a com- inent upon the murder case in the Alm, bui à profound com- ment upon racial hatred.

The film is clever in avoiding taking dides. It pees, it states honestly. The whole world is horrified at what took place at Nottingham, Paddington, and Little Rock. And rightly $0. Such hooliganism was punishod Severely in England, at any rate.

But that does not solve the problem The latest plic of books on my desk written by wilto Americans shows me that they are going Into the fray with hruds down. But are they quite fair? In not their classification unintelligent, over- drawn by emotional tones?

Not every white is a Satante Simon Legree, and not every coloured man is a maintly Uncle

Tom.

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FULLER

Horė is a very valuable cluq to holp you solve the mystory of Sapphire, from the

film of that nome, showing at the Loe and Astor.

in rising cadence, creates an Alm to eny? Two girls aro almost uncanny effect in the going out with two boys. mind of the hearer,

One couple, as couples every- This play in turn: inspleed whore, seck and find a lonely Richard Strauss to compose spot. They are caught in a an apera, in which the bizarre shower of rain, and return to mood of cruelty, lust and the boy's apartment. The girl is beauly, is merged with the unwise enough to lakḍ off, her stranke harmonies which do wel clothes in front of the boy. plot Salome's ferecious love. What is bound to happen, hop Liners.

peut.

The other couple

The whole Enst is pasing through a transitional period. Liloo it or not, the old ways have gone for ever.

It is certainly alarming; all change is: but is the present so much worse than the past?

old

As an Occidental, the fashioned rules which demanded chastity for the woman and leence for the man, secan to mej absolutely ludicrous.

..

Thero la none who can state

are out in dogmatically whether the rich-

It was, undoubtedly a pleasant ners of the mood is captured in the boy's car. Here comes the

gag that has served youth ever way of life, but now women print or on coltuleld, or upon since the first petrol station was are stepping forward to demand the plage. The legend of the erected. The car stops suddenly their equal place in society, cruel princess is established in the mind of the beholder; then a pine forest, and what was such incidents this film portrays

are inevitable. bound to happen, happens,

success of the presentation de-

A

penda upon the degree the ob- From then on there is jective presentation relates to tangled gkeln, but tragedy is the inward representation of never to away. the viewer.

1 give I that Wilde alone

I happened to be in England na the "racial war flared up. The world knew of that, but what they did not know was succeeded in presenting Salome, Just before the Retus) ziola, a for by in use of cold moun→ girl of sixteen took her own light, and his catalogue ilfe in a flat st Leytonstone, jewels illumined in such an She bad been: Taken into atmosphere, he created a mood prostitution by two coloured of heartless beauty, of ferocious men who had been admlited tenderness, of decadent lovell to England.

of

Now this theme is very familiar att over the Orient, A remarkable number of Dims are made right here in Hongkong about wild rock- less youth,

For the Westerner, this film is Interesting is a comment upon the reactions Oriental society at large makes upon this breaking up of the old traditions. Of

пошал choosing her own man; of the setting aside of the marriago broker, and 'such formalities.

I say again, it is the transi tional period, and "Alga" is n The older generation is quite good film, of its class, to repre at a loss. The same thing is sent the problem, as seen through happening in Japart, and I have the eyes of the older genera- seen at least half-a-dozen

This must not be looked for Japanese films dealing with simt- tion.

Now getting back to the film, "Sapphire,"

it is clover in a medium so widely simad as lar themes, or at least variations stating the facts. It avolds

a spectacle cinema film; yet the on the theme. nothing. Here they are, Form Rubstance of the film is under- your opinion, but this is what stood, even I its variegated it leads to.

I doubt, if you play honest, that you will solve the murder, for good red herrinys sprinkled in your path.

Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig work' splendidly together

the case as the detectives

Poul Massle endorses the pro- mize he gave in "Orders to Kill" Bernard Miles is the typical London tradesman father. mmm- bitious for his family; Yvonne Mitchell seemed to be the atmo lute coured woman who has lixt the savour of life.

The coloured characters áre great in front of the camera, ranging through all the' mooda of Negro

Now

it is not my business to nuances of emotional disture lecture the parents of the Orient, bance have to be hidden behind but as an onlooker, I might see the obvious high toned, crudely- presented, colourful episodes of pore of the game. popular legend.

Beauly is represented by Rita Hayworth; Inst by Charles Laughton; nobleness by Sibwart Granger: fanatical Idealism by Alan Badel; dupit- city by Judith Anderson: ex- pediency by Ball Sidney.

The most casual can see that

Le. Astor

(TEL, 7243) MA

To-day al 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 pm,

THE SENSATIONAL STORY OF A GIRL WHO DIDN'T BELONG, *** KEN

Sapphire

NIGEL PATRICK YVONNE MITCHELL MICHAEL CRAIG PAUL HASSIE

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

ASTOR = 11.00 am.

LEE at 11.00 1.1.

COLOUR CARTOONS

at 12.30 p.in,

"KNIGHTS OF

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COLOUR CARTOONS

at 12.30 p.m.

"GOOD MORNING

MISS DOVE"

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METROPOLE

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•WINNER OF BOX-OFFICE CHAMPION IN JAPANI

Aiga

DAIET

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MOTION PICTURE COʻLID,

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COLOR

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METROPOLE: At 11.00. 5.m.

Ayako Wakso · and Junko TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW * AT REDUCED PRICES Kane are charming, as two shop STAR: At 11.00 a.m. girls who fall for the old old story; Yasuo Mizumwa na Mist Ayaka's lover, and. Mr Keizo as her conservative brother, lead a well known Japanese cast,"

LATEST FOX TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS PROGRAMME

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

f

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with these qualities introduced BOXY & BROADWAY: "Hell Into a play or film, there is

day For Lovers."-2nd week of every opportunity of achieving

this inspired travelogue a masterpiece, especlaily with tour, which takes you through Sao Paulo, Elo, and Peru, such a theme as Salome.

Excellent sketches by Clifton Webb.

Also Jane Wyman; JUI St John; Carel Lynley; and Gary Crosby. Colour by De Luxe; CinemaЯcope; Stereophonic Sound,

The film however, is not life in England. concerned with such subliolles from the hop joinis to the as the whys and wherefores. anob; English Sin is ail ein, in such, crude condescending trained, whome father is presentation as completă aban-- Elshop, and would not permit donment. fis marriage to Sapphire:- "You *

sbe'a

can't give bis answer because

It would 'reveal the plot.

..

Goodness. Is all goodness. There is no exploratory psycho- Herodias logy. The fact that might have had a case against Filmed in Eastman Colour, it the Bapist is ruled out of court really comea over well, An with all the certainty of a Hyde | astonishingly good film that Park Sunday afternoon orator. will tax your Ingenuity, and Incidentally must make you think a bit deeper than the head lines of the paper. '

660)ALOME,” showing at the King's and Prin- cess. The revival of this flo gives a reviewer an opportu- nity of saying something about the subject which had to be omitted in the "Orst

run review,

The subical of “Salome," has excited thecreative..., Fártist, chiefly, I think, because it pres 'sentaja paradox of cruelty and

beauty,

The outcome of it all is a vastly entertairting film, specta- cular in. common terms, enter- taining in story, book terms, colourful In. Technicolor terms:

'night from a poor man's- thousand and one nights.

A

The closing scene is, as api] and a certain as a Sunday sebook/femom, Salame gives her dance, but seerolly she is good and convinced of the righteousness of the devasta

ng preacher, John.

Only the weak Herod (Charles Laughton) is terrified. the and sockscomfort from High Priest, but fails to get th

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So once again, Hollywood re- writer world history, and all I can say is, the world would be a happier place if it ran Beçord. On the other hand, all wo ing to Hollywood. know about, this fabulous beauty an

contained in 20: verzös, Jukon from the Gospels ¦・or Šaínís Matthew und -Mark. Her name is not given in the Glóapel adı,

counts, but it is given youth (Star "and IGA,”, the truth about Saloma by the Hourne hiệu toriun, Josephus, whose great Melropote), in a Japanese

was-reviewed

in last film with superimposed sab Baturday's China” Mall,

work

The subject inspired rear s

Wilde's play, "Baloma," where

and

STAR & METROPOLE: “Alfa”. A modern' story set in Japan, 'which tells of two shop 'giris

and their boy friends. I teresting from Western point of view in that li shows what worrying 'contemporary soolely in Japan as the old to the new. ways give way Very well made in DalelScope (Japan's big scrocit technique) and Colour." Ayako Wakao; Junko Kano (leading ladies); Mirahi Kawaguchi Kelso Kawasaki (Malò leads); - LEE & ASTORI: "Sapphite." A

really

Blast class flm with racial strife background, but

mystery-kiillog story. the plot betur, · who is Sapphire and why should anyone want to k her? · Superbly, cost," Earlman Colour. - Nigel Patrick: Yvonne Mitchell: Michael

Crale: antil ex-local boy, Paul Massic. KING'S

PRINCESS: "Salome," A screen version 'of the Tiblical story of the orzel,

of beautiful, daughter Herodias, who danced before Herod and demanded as her fco the head of John the Baptist 'Made in popular manner as spectacular crowd pleaser in Tochnicolor. Rita Hayworth: Stewart Granger and Charles Laughton. HOOVER & GALA: *Gone With the Wind." Screendom's first of the modern epics. The Civil War in America; Sher- man's burnt earth polloy; the notorious Scarlett O'Hara, and - her; altairs. Clark · "Glable; Vivien Leigh; Belle Howard; and Olivia de Havilland,

COMING

BOXY &' BROADWAY: "A Private's Affair.”. Farelai tilt at the U. Army, só 'daft, it could not be datier. Pay- chiatrie Department: taken ■' beating, 'us' does the PentagOUT, Bal but wil in good fun. Mineo: Christion Carere; Ilarry » Coe; and Barbary Eden. · CinemaSpope, Sierpophonie, Sound, and Colour" by: Do".

affinity between child and killer. Superb direction, and strongly exit. Horst Buchholz; Jobji Mills; and Hdyloy Mills. KING'S & PRINCESS:("Tarzan's

·Greatest Adventure.” Penhal- dolor exploll of this Peter Pan ape mân. This une is rood, das,to strong, supporting cast and of beat' story, Flaty of action with Tarsan's enemies, antinal and human, doing theley, brst" but "ghting." tho. "STAR" & METROPOLE: "UGH-worst of it, nenes Barlos Gordon rors of the Binck Museum" X Scott: Anthony Quayles, and

Certificato Britjàn Picture, túð Sara Bhand? What frightening. for words, fas

aw hero a sort of selenitis HOOVER. GALA: "The Firalerato Jack the Ripper Clucma

picture of war-fixm: Grerço in Scope and Ehstoran Colour.

which a Michael Gough, like T

American War LEFABTORI “Tuzer. BAYNE, QUIrespondent – plays Hoky NEPRAbielutely, fon rate, Tintas *will*156' Clestado, Extremely

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authentie in detaila - Kebert Kotkowe Almdom has seen for ́s

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What it has to esy is : moda

the author's gambol with words, alarming in the Orient than in Artfully heaping?"DYTILA? MIT, the Okcident. “For what has the

STAR: At 12.15 p.m. 20th Century-Fox prosents in CinemaScope & Color "THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES" starring Robert WAGNER Joffrey HUNTER

METROPOLE; At 12.30 p.m. Richard BURTON James MASON in

"DESERT RATS"

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SUSAN HAYWARD

in the true story of

Barbara Graham-whose *murder trial shocked the world!

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I want to live

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·AT 12:30 'P.M. THE DAUGHTER „MATA-HARI”

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