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KING'S · BROADWAY

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AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20

KING'S:

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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

& 9.30 P.M.

Ten Days of Jungle Terror!

STERLING

HAYDEN Ten Days to gelara"

United Ariss

Added Attraction. Appearing in person with their

Spectacular Dances

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BROADWAY A

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The Rabbit

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FILMS

IVAN

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by

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★ GRAND OPENING TO-DAY ★ AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

TO-MORROW 5 SHOWS AT 3 THEATRES EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 12.30 P.M.

An Cutstanding Picture!

Magnificently Producuul

IVAN the conqueror

Easimancolor - Totalscout Filled With Passion, 'Hate and Revenge ....

Death!

ED FURY ELAINE STEWART Bella Cortez

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STEWART GRANGER & JANET LRIGH

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"O COME LET US ADORE HIM." Nativity scene from MGMs "King of Kings."

WINS IN

LAST ROUND

K.O.

TEN

JUNGLE

JUGGLE

TIEN DAYS TO TULARA (King's & Broadway) Adventure yarn made on a TVAN THE CONQUEROR shoestring which tells a (Queen's -State brief tale of cross, double. Royal) is

Eastman cross, an

and double-double- Colour TotalScope Italian cross. spectacular.

Dealing with the land Jungry tribes of central Asia, reference is made to a certain Great Khan who tries to promote B contest between two of the boys who both want to be chieftains.

Ivan is easily the favourite. and while the contest is not pro- moted under the MarquesE

Rules, ther

Queensberry

nevertheless,

A

JS. Bina

house, and the Great Khan musi have bruken more than even on the promotion.

The fights are quite good, and the championship bout is ex- citing, for the boys use flaming torches instead of boxing gloves. but just as Ivan is poised for the old one-two, some over ex- cited spretator tosses an arrow at him

Well, of course, even in those far off barbaric days. throwing an arrow at the favourite is

Tale has a plane pilot forerd into a crooked deal, and unfolds as he gets himself off the hook. Situations manifestly predict -- able performed by an cast including Sterling Hayden

BULLSHINE

BAFFLES

BRAINS

maited milk in the cafe I have Jean-Paul Belmondo is the memtioned are anything like Jackal. Of ferocious but coward- as articulate as I suggest, this ly counterence, he pads the dim is their advocate.

pavements of Paris, seeking My chic? complaint is that whom he might spotl or betray. people, and critics who should know better, call it "new."

On the other hand, It is new In the sense that it deals a dead-

ly blow to the sentimental cine- ma

He tives in a world of treachery. Where telephones Hing and are never answered; where Gark "are stolen and never sold; where love la merely a five minute sensa- Hon; and in the end, the Jungle betrays him. In all this, Bel- mondo is magulflcent.

On that account, is it any pear- er to the meaning of life than the sentimental cinema was?

What is life, and what is its

The female of the species is purpose? Objectively, we do not know beyond the simple Jean Seberg. St Joan come to functions of living and dying. Judgement, for ridiculous as All else is belief, inspired and she was as the romantic hero- accepted according to the geo- ine, here she is an actress of graphical point at which we distinction as the female, sans conscience, sens morals, sans

were born.

torial thaler?

Is then our modern town of everything. adequate

And what about Jean-luc Go- Lofty architecture and chromium plated comfort merely a sophis- dard, the director? Commencing licated jungle? And is modern life as a minor denizen of the (e. a film critic) he man merely a Saville Row sar- jungle,

edition of the Neander- has in his fashion put right all that was wrong in film making. His candid camera sweeps the highways, creeps into cond class rooms of third class hotels, and gives sermons in dirty

bed-sheets, books In chlyped ash-trays, and philos. phy in public conveniences. Working from the penultimate

In the main, we have to act In good faith. We have to ac- cept credit notes on life; religion teaches us that they will be cashed at a high rate of inter- est later })

But now, with humanity un the beach and millions living in

BOTM

the confident expectation of be- scene of betrayal to death in a ing wiped off the globe in a Paris side street, one faults the communities direction on only one point,

BULL flash our civilised PERATION

bave gunr the

are back to

O'SHINE (Lee & Princess) hav

We

full

A

crack.

circle. which was really lack of cash, the jun- I imagine. For if people This is a Technicolor riot in- gle, and the end is fearful, and street hear a revolver

and see a wounded man limping spired by and ́ ́ ́ ́including death and emptiness is the con-

to his death, surely, at least, they some of the "Carry On clusion.

are curious enough to leuk, series incidents.

But taking this shadow world

Upon such a barren philosophy is this film made. As such it cannot be ignored.

as it is, the mood of the director is shown in the half-lights of his.

11 is cloquent. By its very the sis, it is challenging, for its film. characters are the products of

These pictures which have reckoned a dirty trick. Further enjoyed a certain amount more it has upset the book- success abroad are now having makers who don't know who to the British producers scrotching our scientiae jungles, pay out, so as usual, they just for plots.

welsh

This film which mingles at flavour of distaff bumour with the enlists in slapstick

There is a lot more picture, including

to this male

а

stately Army

pleasure dome, also a maid, and

མ

for its angle. You've seen it all hefore, but

while she is no Abyssinian and maybe you prefer it twopence as far as I could see, does not coloured to penny plain. Donald play a dulcimer, she managed to Sinden and Ron Shiner make get around quite nicely without the most of their plot, while old timers will recall Naunton

one.

raw

My summing up is as follows. Wayne of the old variety days. Ivan is quite a good fighter and Barbara Murray and Carole received a very

deal. Lesley supply the glamour. Amok, a dirty Aghter, had more than a streak of puppy in him. It is far warmer than I thought in central Asia judging from the amount of clothes the girls dance in.

BIG TOP

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the "big top" which takes TREATHLESS (A Bout in time to perform for your D. de Souffle) (Roxy & amusement and entertain- Majestic), What is it about ment, some of the most this film which sets it in a spectacular circus acts now class of its own? taking place in Europe.

One can Imagine the modern enfant terrible. sitting in the

In

A truly superb production, and one you must not miss.

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

SHOWING

QUEEN'S - ROYAL-STATE: Ivan the Conqueror." East- man Colour and TotalScope spectacular concerning A tead between two savage tribes, feudal subsidiaries of the Great Khan. Ed Fury, Elaine Stewart, and Bella Cortez. KING'S &

rounding the expoits of Bri- tish Army Hfe and loves. Donald Sinden and Barbará

GALA: "Pride

Murray.

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of the Jane Austen novel. Greer Garson BROADWAY:

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Laur- ence Olivér.“ ROXY & MAJESTIC: "The Comancheros Concerned with the exploits of a secret kingdom of killers. Cinem Scope and Colour" by Dẹ Luxe, Jehn Wayne, Stuart ...Whitman and tua Balin.

Теп

Days to Tulara," High-Jinks in the South American jungle, involving 2 "Iramel"

pilot qui Els escape from a murder gang. Sterling Hayden LEE & PRINCESS: "Operation Bullshine," Comedy sure

QUEEN'S

CHRISTMAS FILMS

BOYAL

STATE: On the Double." Zany story in which Dan- ny Kaye impersonates a Bri- tish Officer and becomes

·Involved" in a

Tough antif

Wardour "Ana-

In Eastman Colour, "Enfant. Filmed this picture carries along a Sirtes, "Here'ska) poignant drama iti a kind of macic right on the nose for the

alled best "broken hearted clown"- tradi- equares.

(designed and tiam.

This is Ufe, life as it really is.fedrag Audience, Among the sets

acts which bold And here is the cardinal rule of

Clamina the audience to their seats are life; Thou shalt avoid Fall èmu- a breathless sharp shooter turn, tinal entanglements; thou o and the entry of the tigers into take what thou wants, thou sh the ring path have no loyalty, oven 10, hy This is seasonal entertainment so 2012 (31

at its beskyd blatare which most Now, while I do not fun not help but draw full houses thonment imagine that i ta to a most gallakastiskriding. Allars,

parade to end all dashiton parades. Definitely the ploture of the Busan Hayward, Gaying and Vern

Jöhri

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