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KING'S BROADWAY

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★ NOW SHOWING ✯ AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.30 & 9.45 P.M. ¡Please note change of times) THREE ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS

BURT LENGASTER JEAN SIMMONS

THE STRAIN HAS NEVER KNOWN A

MAN LUCE HIMET

later

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1961.

FILMS

TALMER GANTRY (King's & Broad- way) This film which gives a brilliant inter- pretation of Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry, a

ELMER GANTRY drunken, woman-chasing

evangelist,

comes

to

Hongkong laden with honours,

CURRENT & COMING

by

ANTHONY FULLER

A

LEE-PRINCESS

NOW 5TH WEEK!

TO-DAY AT 2.15, 5.30 & 9.00 P.M. WINNER OF 4 ACADEMY AWARDS!

KIRK DOUGLAS LAURENCE OLIVIER

JEAN SIMMONS CHARLES LAUGHTON

PETER USTINOV

JOHN GAVIN

SPARTACUS

...TONY CURTIS

•LEMATICUM

TECHMIRABIA” ADRES EN PRATSIOO

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Screenplay

Sunday Morning Shows:

KING'S: At 11.30.a.m. INDIAN PICTURE

BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m. Col. 3 Stooges & Cartoons-

At 12.15 p.m. Extra Performance of "ELMER GANTRY"

STATE ROYAL

784.77-3948

TEL, BO-5700

NOW SHOWING AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

SLGARRY ONEKERI

The Boardzalian prezenta

CARRY ON REGARDLESS

SIDNEY JAMES KENNETH CONNOR CHARLES HAV/TREY · JOAN SIMS KENNETH WILLIAMS BILL OWEN

21Z FRASER TERENCE LONGDON

SPECIALLY ADDED

Winner of the "GOLDEN HARVEST" Trophy for

the Best Documentary Production! "THIS IS HONGKONG"

in Eastman Color

SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS AT REDUCED PRICES

STATE: 12.30 p.m.

ROYAL: 11.00 o.m. 12.30 p.m.

GLENN FORD in "THE WILD MAN"

WARNER'S COLOR CARTOONS PETER CUSHING in "HORRORS OF DRACULA"

KENT SHAW CIRCUIT REMEDIE

HOOVER GALA

TEL.. 72371

TEL 52979

★ SHOWING TO-DAY ✯

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

their heels

M-G-M presents

and

DANIELLE DARRIEUX

MICHEL AUCLAIR

Murder at

45R.PM.

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS:

11.00 a.m.

M.G.M. CARTOONS

12.30 p.m. "NAKED MAJA”

11.00 a.m. M.G.M. CARTOONS

12.15 p.m. "IMITATION OF LIFE"

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GINA'S LATEST HOLLYWOOD HITI NO MAN COULD FORGET HER ... NO WOMAN FORGIVE HERI

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GINA

LOLLOBRIGIDA

ANTHONY

FRANCIOSA

CRNEST

BORONINE

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IN THE WORLD

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la Techatramp & Colour

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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

The glamor girl'

who wakes up ↓

- ashamed...

--

ELIZADETH TAYLOR LAURENCE HARVEY LODGE FISHER

BUTTERFIELD

8

To-morrow Morning Show

At 12.08 Noon

"THE RACKET**

Unfortunately, religion 1 subject few people are able to the

without losing Back timers and I H conscious of this as Egit type this review.

a

very

ant

Furthermore, I personally re- member that Sinclair Lewis came in for quite a bit of crilie. im when he launched his novel. And I remember that on re wali parson threatened

elair Lewis that if the alter

h territory, stepped ima

116 The parson) would personally lewt lynching party a string the author u

The name of the parson was Elmer Gantry, Or it should have been.

$10

Lewis characterked Gantry a vicious, hypocritical coundrel. and for m he was damned up and down the States. On the olher hand he

the Nobel Prize won

for Elmer Gantry and four other novels, his great early works, Thu novel, Elmer Gantry al- though I have had to replace it three times, has stood. on my shelves since Lite Thirtee perlups you wouftl like my opinion.

The Film

"And unless you believe one hundred per cent every word between the covers of this dear old book, you are one hundred per cent damned," Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry. Showing at the King's & Broadway. United Artists.

Ilong- The gimmick is the volce ou meanwhile taking time off poverty and despair to

a little sex

The record, and the denouement to show

and kong.

The film won at Manila is surprising, not so much in per- romance by the way,

the 8th Asian Festival and in son as in circumstance. Does fart received i rotund of ap- that make it clear: If not, get will a Opera

along and see it. You will tud sequence which the skids put

I am correct. tander a confident and cocky who is beaten Dana Andrews, to it by an older and more art- ful competitor.

The pictur

The film then takes time to mustrate the muthods of publi- city campaigns. which show how att indifferent and nadlo-

plause from the jury,

It colourful, Showing all

aspects of the Calony's life, has fine spoken commentary, and is in fact, a part of Hongkong we recognise.

M

a wistful longing for a life that to a national figure on an entire This is a

ly phoney reputation.

film

Danielle Darrlex brints re- markable intent to what is real- Mi- ly a good thriller, while chel Auclair is at once charm-

ng and sinister.

A good provolding ture on the piano follows through the thenie; you will like that co

* ✰

A splendidi script. I never thought seript writer would have ticked the novel. By cul- ting out the earlier episodes of Gantry's career which led up to out of the his being thrown church. it arrives at a singa where Elmer is a salesman with of the right man, he built up

cre person, LAN, In the bands MURDER AT 45 RPM (Hoover & Gala).

X7OMAN mystery with a strong touch of The film is well made, and macabre, in which n dead the romantle ashles lend relief

man speaks and ghosts to the ever present rat race theme, but the finale traves point guns, you wondering whether the producer is blaming Andrews for not getting his whiskers in front in the race, or whether the film makers disapprove of the rat race per se rat race.

might have been, and iner than

taste for Bible-thumping. By the way, in case you want to know, the beautiful passage beginning "Love is the only how on life's dark clol.... recited by Lancaster in the film, was taken from the works of Ingersol the freethinker by Sinclair Lewis,

The Aba bighly provocative (as the novel) and bandies the name Jesus about in a nner which is embarrassing to Toth The derou ant the heretic.

That the film has power, fores,

imagination,

and

Lincerity,

which hold you spell-bound to

the end.

Highlights

and it The film is ruthless, expose unmercifully cONTIER

alised religion, yet, it erits the drum-banging. Fanatics! exponents, of these weird reels with a funny sort of sincerity, best expressed, I think, by my- ing that they are the Onc

LOUS vietinis of their ow

rhetoric,

Dana

Andrews gives and performance as a man who will Sterilee everything for an ae count, in which human el

tions and personal obligations

ry nothing compared with an advertising accoum!.

Eddie Alb.et comes through excellently as a stuge who is translated to yecon on paper and TV, but who knows how to kick a friend when he is down, The distaff are represented by Eleanor Parker and Jeanne Craia who while adding a Hitle romance here and there, teach Andrews thst the boy friend female is the more cloudly of the specics.

A god ordinary rt of the The question which must be mill Alm, a limpse at another asked by people who know or ride of business life is not with- sare about the three ringed out its interest, leaving one, elreus form af religion , are with the impression that elva- there such persons as Elmer ing out a sewer k not such a Gantry. Of course there are, ty job after all.

if not of degree, of kind, Men who fasten upon a virtue and exploit it above all others. Such as Gantry as shown by Sinclair Lewis. At a travel- Ting

tried to

salesman who

CA

☆☆

ARRY ON REGARD-

(Royal LESS

&

borrow a match. Elmer roared, Slate). There have

"I don't smoke brother, and

probably been crazier films,

don't believe George but at the moment, I can- Washington did either." not bring one to mind; not even one made by this

If you have the know how. everything is in that quote, and Carry On team.

you will know the type inuned!- uteky. Jerus Grid of thx m.

The film has no plat. Just a sel of heltients loosely kit lo-

They strain at a grat but they gether be having the way east

swallow a esnel"

Burt Lancaster is

elbow-lifting.

the

Klamorous

nil work for a firm called Help- terriles ng Hands, in which they g lecheras, Tantee to do Jny jb That. but spell binding Gantry. In Wand: dving. fe, after seeing the dim a few So we months ago, I was so confident young man take u monkey for Lancaster would win an Oscar a walk through a west end of that the China Mait had the London suburi). Another call- blocks made to accompany

the ed up to "baby sit," only to Qear Award announcement. find the "baby" is thirty years

Jean Simmons is the personi- old or something. Acation of Sharon Falconer, Of course, the nim has to half mystic, half crazy,

the exy have

Helping Handers' holy, female evangelist.

cards mixed up and they all go Arthur Kennedy, is just right out on the wrong jobs, as the sceptical Jin, the report- er. A new character for in the novel, Jim Is Gantry's fellow student; one seeptle in a mid- west Bible College,

The character who out of the pages of meet me A

stepped Lewis to old friend comes

The lineager, the h muur Alunning. the players willing, and the point is this, If you like slapstick, it has never come better; but if you don't like nľapsuck, you will De bored stl.

Old carryoners such as Sid- Connor, from another favourite, "Bab ney James, Kenneth bit," for this im version, in- four-eyed Hawley, and gluin- troduces George Babbit as a ordus Joan Sims lead uite cast. two-timer, and a fine perform- ance by Edward Andrews in the

role,

"ADISON AVENUE

M Roxy & Majestic).

This film

Illustrates the

In the same programme__is **This Is Hongkong,” and after the stuff we have been seeing on the TV which is supposed to be langkong, 1 advise you to get along to the either sho Royal and State, sna see how a film of Hongkong enn be made.

It does not side step the pro-

rat race applied to biems, nor the awfúi poverty Public Relations firms, and that is with us, but it does❘

·Coloninis 'dre The ruthless show what the exposes

doing off their own bat for the taken nicaxures

million or more univiled virit- other companies' accounts, or who have brought their '

10

fich

You might be better at this

kind of tung than I aus, and told to solve although I am

these mysteriou by selecting the least likely person as the mur derer, my difficultly is finden! the least likely person,

However, I have not the liniitest intention of helping you, but merely wish to say that This is a well munde, strongly

rected an.

Two shots stand out in my mind. Ons is where the furious

down a ly driven car winds narrow road at night, and the tres are picked out by the

stand out as headlights and

OF ROME

VY (Astor). This film takes you back to Rome in the days of the Fascist Regime.

It is concerned with Airinna. Gina Lollobrigida a beautiful girl, pure, poor, but honest, and her subsequent

seduction, and hur Best steps along the prim- rose path.

She joins the profession as a wistful adherent, not so much frun a Scase of vocation, and the following secnes depict her adventures with her customers.

AL BL after many trips lợ bed, she meets the man she loves, so she takes herself to church and makes a promise.

Will the keep it? Go and see for yourself.

The Astor is almost making a carnival of these Continental Alms, and white mystifying stumps.

certainly this film The second scene has blonde has had many nice things suid haired chic looking women about it. walking down a street looking At a type of film which is held like our missing heroine. She to portray realism, this is a good is approached, but takes the example. But somehow fe approach for an advance, and seems to have bezume awfully turns her face to the camera sleazy if we are to accept the and reveals the lines of a hag- current vogue of films as being gard prostitute.

typleal and topical.

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

SHOWING

LEE & PRINCESS: "Sparta- cus." Stunning Super Tech. nlrama and Technicolor spectacle, all about a stave who raised др Army to fight against the legions of Rome, Kirk Douglas, Jean SlamoTIS, and Laur. ence Olivier. KING'S & BROADWAY: "EI- mer Gantry." Film version of Sinclair Lewis's proVOCA- tive novel which exposes the pecuniary and needy aspects of hot gospelling. Bart Lan- easter in the title rule lift- ed an Oscar Award as the forthright Eimer Gantry who made religion pay off. Easi- man Colour. Also Jean Sim- mons and Dean Jagger, ROXY & MAJESTIC:

dison Avenue." Another version of the rat-race, this time in the Publie Relations department, proving above

all else that a man will gala the whole world and lusc his soul... quife willingly. Dana Andrews, Eleanor Par- ker.

positions

ROYAL & STATE: "Carry On Regardless." Latest contri- bution by this team of tame tunatles, in which as jub Itunters, they accept such

дл baby-sitting. exercising a monitey and so on. Of course the Jobs are all mixed up. and the pegs round are fitted into holes square. A really crazy laugh that lasts as long as the film. Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, and La Fraser. HOOVER & GALA: "Murder at 45 RPM." French mystery “whodunit" in which a mi- crogroove ramophone re- cord adas muen to the plot with a surprise dénouement. Engibh dialogut.

COMING

LEE & PRINCESS; "Romanoff & Juliet." Peier Ustinov's brillant play made into film. Written on the Romeo and Juliet theme, it shown the happy fate which cort- cluded

of A the exploits couple of red-star croJNÉA lovers, Sandra Dee and John Gavin.

KİNG'S & BROADWAY:

"Vampire and the Ballerina," Kattan flims with English dia- Ingun which sets ouï to make Dracula

Uke ⚫ look

AN amateur. Soone has van- pires preying on a ballet Leómpe foolish enough to fè- Kestab nexe a legendary vatiplie village. Spooks, spoof, and stare'em. Heleno Remy and Walter Brandi, BOXY & MAJESTIC: "Saint- day Night and Sundhof MSEA- Ing. Earthy rondallő hiélo- drama closets following Alan Billioo's best seller.

No

Has a young Miðland' working man livlig only for a Saturday night's booze and women all the time. moralising, acting more than brillant, with atmosphere flawless and detail impec- cable, Albert Finney, Shirley Aano Fleid, and Rachel No- berts ROYAL & STATE: "A Breath of Scandal." A romance of ota

Vienna

Aprayed in Technicolor. The scandal Now Miss Lozen romantic carryings-on with John Gavin, but there is not a word of truth in the gossip. Also Maurice Chevalier and Løbel Jean HOOVER & GALA: "Tho Light In The Forest," Dlatley production Techmfebler, which fells the story of an Indian 107 who found he was

really white. Fem Turket, Wendeli Corey, and Joanne Dru.

in

LEE:

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10.30 a.m. COLOUR CARTOONS 12.00 Neon "JUMPING JACK”

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Astor Theatre

★ GRAND OPENING TO-DAY ✯ AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. TO-NIGHT SHE FINDS A HUSBAND, TO-MORROW SHE WILL LOSE HIM!

GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA

WOMAN

OF ROME

Based on the famous book LA ROMANA by the distinguished author Alberto Moravia

ROXY MAJESTIC

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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PM: The truth about the "Build-Up Köyi" the things they do to get to tho' tapi

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ROXY A 1200 ngàn Dirk BOGARDE in

"CAMBELL'S KINGDOM”

MAJESTIC: At 12,80 þm.

John WAYNE in

"BACK TO BATAAN”