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KING'S PRINCESS SHOWING TO-DAY

"Yesterday Enemy" is a great war fim, I lo remarkable for its stark, honest setting out of the moral dilemmas which must arise in war. And It is remarkable for its vivid portrayal of the courage and endurance of men struggling at cloic quarters against the enemy in the dense jungle of Burma.

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Major-General W. E. V. Abraham, G.BR.

Columbia Pictures presents

YESTERDAY'S Enemy

Starting

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FILMS

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"blue JeansTM And Broadway) Is good film, make no mistake about that. It accomplishes Just what it sets out to do, to find an answer to this generation's problems. It shows, without ramming it. down your throat, that the weakness of this age is the falling apart of family life.

Not that the Alm family iş nat a good one, it is, but every ous lives their life opart; there is no getting together, no ex- change of condences, so that when young Brandon de Wide meots real trouble, his muther pushes a book into his hand.

The plot itself is an old as the hilis. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he gets her into trouble

to da ... and what

de Wilde und Carol Lynley present a sensitive siricete, per- formance of the young people, too much in love, and afraid to tell their parents,

Macdonald Carey and Marsha Hunt as the parents, too inten- sitive and deliberately unaware that teenagers can have prob- lems, hand in a performance that is identical with the average good parents of today.

This is my opinion, As film, it is excellent for tho three following reasons, First the cast. Every role Ex distributed with Infinite care that not a jarring note is struck throughout the Alm.

This could Cnally

occur

At

The

in avoiding these visual nids to horror, the Rim is much strong-

cr

The second point is, the m No un- sticks to its problem, necessary asides with box office in mind are allowed to creep in. It is what you would' gall economy of statement, and the film rises to artistic. heights by observing the first rule of narra

CURRENT & COMING

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Young Brandon de Wildo breaks down and confesses to his father (Macdonald Carey), while the mother, unbelieving, stares aghast (Marsha Hunt) from "blue jeans."

he is; in fact, no great leader attempts nothing but the naked cent become victims of war,

of men it is a thriller. of armies can get along without exposure of the minds It,

al war.

Stanley Baker ficent as the officer in charge

The setting for this drama is Burma, just after Pearl Harbour, and Singapore have Hongkong fallen.

!

It also points a moral, that magni- it is sometimes too dangerous

of an isolated group of soldiers fighting in the Barma jungle- Backing him up, in the acting sense, is Guy Rolle as the padre, kindly, high principled, who had to face war's most terrifying challenge, one, I must admit, I cannot understand to this day.

maa

Leo McKern is a lough wor correspondent, n kind of one man Greek chorus to the film, a

to know too much; at least, war ands it so. Correspondent' Robert Mitchum

Filmed in Greece, it gives us a very good idea of the back- ground against which many of our former allies and later

enemies, moved.

It shows too, how the British patrols moved Into Greece to Enve what was left of her glory. Robert Mitcham, only anxious to get on with his job, finds

(Hitchcockt fashion) given a secrel

and shred-hamscit bitter commentator der of ideals.

such a point when the erring

Somewhere in the steaming lovers seek out a trauzy dotis jungle swamps are the remnants to perform an abortion. film deliberately steers clear of of a British brigade headquar- horror. No blood, no ugly in- lers, cut off and hopelessly lost. struments, no dirty towels) and No doubt this Rim received

the

down censors thumbs

Bri- because it showed that tish soldiers can be as callous as any others. Of course they can; the only way to be

soldier on the battle- Food And is to put away every

High in the east is Gordon chivalrous sentiment you Jackson as a sergeant who does ever heard of.

not reason why; there is his job. The "let me like a soldier and ho does it.. fall" is us sickening Vic- Among the Orientai helors is Thirdly, the film's sincerity. It tarlants Shakespeare had it Philip Ahn as Mejor Yamazaki; is obvious that the director, when he said, "Then Instate the he plays one very good scene Philip Dunne believes in the action of the tiger."

For the battlefield story he has tackled, and his talent is directed to transform jungle where you kill ing a good script Into visual killed. The heroles belong to art. It is obvious also that he story books, and the gongs and lerday's Enemy" is 11s honest has convinced his cast and in- bits of ribbons to accidents, and spired them with his own beller desperation,

The problem facing Stanley in the job they have to tackle.

as the tough Captain Naturally, I nee the probelm Baker

tion.

opposite Stanley Bokor during the the British retreat from Burma ur Bet in 1042.

in a rather different light, I Langford is this, he has to make can recall with the greatest of a decision not covered by con- has ventions or governments, or case that every generalion

anything cise of the sort, had a teenage problem.

Human nature does not What is a war crime? IL is taken by certain change...but the problem an action

The great thing about "Yes attempt to put war in its true perspective. It shows the British in a tough position fighting with the gloves off.

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This is no drama of the stif

BOHDOI: upper-lip Union Jacks waving; romanule concessions.

The possession of a secret with the Gestapo moving In Is good as 2 one Bay floket to the Demetery, Mitohum swallow it, literal-

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ly preferring to carry. the lat of names in his head.

Which sets quite a price on his head!

Cloak and dagger stuff take us quite a long way in "The Angry Hills" then suddenly we are brought up with a shock. Hostages are talen, and the scene is 50 terrifyingly real that we say It just can't hap-

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blue jeans

CAROL

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BRANDON

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BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performance

"BLUE JEANS" Af 12.15 p.m.

pen. Then we remember it did TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW • ÅT REDUCED PRICES

no happen.

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charm in thern thar hills, Gla Scala and Elisabeth Mueller, both go along with the plot all the way, mad At in eastly as the landscape., Stanley Baker is in this. Alm too

olly number and a really A truly wonderful film, with is the collaborator, Theadore No country that goes to war a message as urgent ds a cable- Bikel.

A thriller, really good thriller: can keep its hands clean; that is Cram. the lesson of this film.

It kicks the heroles to hell seems new to every genera- oflcers in the interests of their out of the Alm, and allots death fear, and hunger and 11on because of the external duties, on orders from higher and world. Young people know up. I purposely rule out the misery, their rightful places,

Above all, it shows the utter more, unfortunately, about sadists who were given license futility of war for victor, van- this time as the Gestapo chie!

seamy. sido of life. I to indulge their own perverted don't son what you can do instincts for the purposes of this about it. Looking them up at argument. home solves nothing, that fo running away from the prob Icm.

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quished. and victim alike,"

You dare not show pity, for plly is weakness; the man with

merey in his sout is soon the 66) dead body on the battlefeld.

HE ANGRY HILLS,"

THE

(Hoover and Gala) FILM

Teaching sex at school merely an excursion in 'anatomy. You don't become a moral per- Bon because you

more about the facts of life.

This flm shows

what page for this film says every but apart from an episode every school teacher has known thing. More

for years....

also

I could write myself off this is another war time story,

powerful than

It is always the "Bridge on the River Kwal", it which shows how the "inno- other kids who are bad

"my kids. ..never."

And this film shows also that

it is the home and the parents who are responsible. A child in

good home with a healthy en- vironment has the strongest shield in the world against the dangers of adolescent irrespon- sibility.

It only remains to be said that every parent in the Colony must see this film, and if they have teenage youngsters, lake them along.

to

This column is no place to moralise, but I state dog- matically, that in this Colony. too many parents are spend- ing too much time, having a good time.

A uftle of that time spent with their youngsters, gaining their confidence, will pay divi- denda.

It is not sufficient for 肆 youngster to steer clear of trouble, they know too much about "that"... here at any rate the thing is to get out of life its richest rewards. and they lie with the family group.

"YE

VESTERDAY'S, ENEMY," (King's and Princess) is one Alm out of a million. Why do I say so? Because it dares to tell the truth about war. No, I do not mean "the rockets' red glare" sort of staff.

a million We've had that times over, and realistic it is, the battlefield couldn't do better. And we've been the tough ser- geant, and weepy roolsy. Ne

But this Alm, "Yerlerday's Enemy" gets under the skin. Pat shows the foul rotting corrosiva cynicism that enters a man; soul when he goes, to war.

shumanter-kin, and the more bo ban of it, the better poidler

It

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

SHOWING

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HOOVER & GALA: "The Angry Hille." A thriller set war-time Greece, which £125 Robert Mitchum ta- volved де An unwilling currier of resistanco secrets, Feat moving authentic background, with excellent casting. Also Stanley Baker: Elisabeth ntueller, and Gla Scala. ROXY & BROADWAY: "blue Jeans." Story of adolescent problems, which in tura became parents' problems. Told in decent straight- forward manner, making it a film with a "riessage" but Intriguing plot. Carol Lynley; Brandon de, Wilde; and - Maodonald Carey, METROPOLE: "Horror of the Black Museum" Horror

film which shenid X Certificate if such existed

Gruesome,

BRIEFS

You know, of course, that Nevil Shute's book, "On the Bench," has been filmed. This frighten- ing, could be prophetle, tale of the last people felt alive,' and how they met their end, makes both a fine Alm, and, a lesson in common sense for all the world. The really spendid thing about the whole affair is, it will be zimultaneously on premiered December 17 in most of the capital citica of the world, including Moscow, Tokyo, New York, London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Amster dam, and Johannesburg, and Zurich.

in Hongkong. yet interesting stody of warped writer who murders for plote, and zvoceeds. Gough, Cinema- Michael Scope and Eastman Colour. LEE & ASTOR: "Elgh Noon." The greatest of all Westerns. The film wbloli set a now, standard, and led to such

ms Da "Shane." Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly,

Personally, I would like to see KING'S & PRINCESS; - "Yez-

Cairo and Tel Aviv on the list, terday's Enemy”. A great-for Shute is an alarming prophet; war flon which kicks out the heroics and shows Just whai war does to people. Set bik Turma Jungle, places Stanley, Baker 41 Captain tough Br{{ffy, with the problem of his life. And how ha sofven it. Truly magnificent :: Also Guy Holfe; Lo Mokorni: and Gordon Jackson,

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HOOVER & GALA: "Für Din

First Time." Dentimental· story, which gives Mario Lanka, the - opportunity to and his voice in operu, Ai and it is really good," Col- our and big wereen, Abso Zsa Zsa Gabor and Johanna van Kozian. ROXY & BROADWAY: "Tho Oregon Trail, Exciting out- door" filed of the break: through to a new, Wa Wont Frontier.-Indians, stre shooters, dil short, the Jof Fred Maelfurray; Mystilana Blaisop) and Nina Shipshare METROFOLE:- #TOO : Many Crook": British odmedy

Pauman'nirala. Alan Brünoj

James and Brenda

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LEE & ASTOR:,"Tiger Bay?” Brisk well-directed. Man with an * pulutanding pers formance from Hayley Mills as a posing; frimid of murderers: A Pins5" Also Mills BU Hort

Buckwolk KING'S A PRINCESS: "AUse Josso (Zampen” · Bob" Hopen Binşaflm Rak will have his

(recall "No Highway") and he foresees the end of the world originating with the atom bomb In the hands of an irresponsible small power diclitor:

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Why It that we rarely ser

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that are being issued?

The aim people in both the States and England should reckon that while Hongkong is nomo distance away, it is not to far that people are unable to take an Intelligent Interest in World Affairs.

has the Why, for instance,

per- Rank., Organisation, not mitted us to ace "Operation Noat's Ark," one of the greatest. short linsevér made" which of the shows the harnessing Zumbell, and the rescuing of the wild animal↑

And why have Columbia Carmen faces, INNER Nihheld: "Operation: Universo,” Colour scientine Accumentary showing tha... bare of Alomie Power in

England?

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