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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1961

KING'S · BROADWAY

£275373

★ NOW SHOWING ★

AT 230, 5.15, 7.20

CANTON

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**

IT'S ALL BORCE

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Sunday Morning Shows: KING'S:

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At 11.00 a.m. FOX COLOUR CARTOONS

At 12.30 p.m. Pat Boonie in

FILMS

TEARS, TEARS,

BA

TEARS

ACK STREET (Lee & Princess).. I am Rot much given to crying at the pictures. In fact, the only occasion when I cry now-a- days is when the producers flash their adjectives on the screen, announcing their forthcoming attractions.

But the truk 15. "Back Street" is very sad indeed, and

one of you ladies reading this

will recall that it is the third time you have cried over it.

"JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH" | The last occasion, if memory is

LEE PRINCESS

NOW SHOWING

At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

FANMIE HURST SZYLG

MOST COMPASSIONA

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.:- Vera Milos

PH LARA: LON action

Susan Hayward John Gavin Back Street

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12.15 p.m.

not playing me tricks, was when Charles Boyer and Miss Sullavan said goodbye for ever

This Eastman Colour ver- sion of Fanny Hurst's thrice Olmed tear jerker has all the glamour of modern film techai- que, and no superlatives of mine cao describe the super work of the cameraman.

An un-

The picture covers the chequered career of happily married tycoon and a talented dress designer, and em phasises that illleft love cannot pay off, no matter how sincere are the principal parties.

Aimed straight the hearts

al of the ladies, the fabulous ward- rober are out of this world. while the romantic surroundings which take in New York, Roine, London and Paris, are

just wonderful.

Susan Hayward plays "he other woman" with charin and feline ferocity, while Vera Miles D2 the wife who bashes the bottle. Is bound to win pity if

no sympathy.

CURRENT & COMING

by

ANTHONY FULLER

Too much in love to say, "goodnight." Susan Hay- ward and John Gavin in "Back Street," Lee & Princess (Universal-International).

returns home to won her future father.

And all the ume. Terry 15 trying to concentrate on a prize archaeological find, an eight foot dinosaur bone!

A DIZZY SPIN

TEENA

some jerky guitar pounder, there are not enough of them to pack a cinema.

In all fairness, I must say that number of TV shorts strung together does not make a film, not even if you throw in Zasų Pitts and Rocky Graziano aš makowaight.

PANTOMINE

DE LUXE

THE

THIEF. OF BAGHDAD (Hoover & Gala). This

j a real pantomime effort presented in CinemaScope and Eastman Colour.

With Steve Reeves Laking uver a role which made film history for Douglas Fairbanks Sr Vilis Alm is

Ing and dashinurtul, excit-

romantic.

This version of the ancient legend has Reeves, as the thief of Baghdad, tact the place of an Arabian prince who seeks the hand of the Sultan's daugh ter.

From that moment we gol skullduggery from the slighted prineu, a winsome performance from the dying prints, magic fran an

old magician, and derring-do from Steve Reeves.

The scenes of wonder are en- chanting and terrifying ut times,

a forest of man-devouring trees,

a palace of petrifled sultors, and a lake of fire.

These form three of the seven trials o Reeves as he sets ou EENAGE MILLIONAIRE to seek a blue rose which will

(King's & Broadway). restare the princess to health.

Sleve

offers his best Richard Beymer gets into the This is a flimsy story which

per- a cynical law student forms an excuse for playing Kerim. thief

formance not as

10 date in the role of and adventurer, who is outraged by Tuesday's number of 45 RPM discs, while opposite him as the evil determination to win the po- and while the cacophonous prince is Arturo Dominici. fessor

George Chamarat handles the and a ple: candonet fills the theatre, the It is a scream,

role of the magician, and Edy with B

which chai- audience have the added rap- Vessel situation lenges and is licked by a first ture of seeing the singer as rate cast. obvious

well as hearing his song.

John Gavin makes a good job of the character of Paul. marine abd now a chain store

Owner

i thought young Paul, played by Robert Ever a most horrible young bral, yet with acting ability, while neat adult cameos emerge

So, if in need of something to

here is "Bachelor Flat."

A teenage romp, designed ex-

from Virginia shake down the plum pudding, clusively for those scruffy kids

Grey. Charies Drake, and essen- tially so from Reginald Gardiner

"JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH" As an American Dio.

CAPITOL

The film goes all out to please those millions of ladies

who read the plush magazines, and enjoy by proxy the homes of the

SHOWING TO-DAY fabulosiy wealthy

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The melodrama builds up to climax which might むい described as the only way out Absolutely a feminine film, the ladies inust take along a full box of tissues before encountering this lachrymose legend of lorne

lovers.

IT'S FOOLISH

BUT IT'S FUN

N THE DOUBLE

This picture, custom made for (Queen's - Royal - State).

Danny Kaye, had me laughing like no one's business.

A vehicle for Kave's nub- standing talents of maniery and

TERRY-THOMAS essays a double role

STATES DEBUT

B

ACHELOR FLAT (Roxy & Majestic) introduces our own Terry-Thomas to American films.

US N American OI stationed in under called upon by Bri-

ish Intelligence to impersonate

a British hero General.

Well, there are complications. his wife, his fellow officers, There is the General's mistress,

Not only that there is the tradition of the

tness, thr regimental s ng which Kays does

not know; the sword dance. and the 'gel out! sheer slapstick

Imagine what it is like with Margaret Rutherford As anctend daughter of the regi- The film chosen is a Chenament; or with Wilfrid Hyde

Although Terry is already well known to cinema audiences In the States (he had seve

films playing simultaneously in

New York, last year)

his American debut.

Scope and De Luxe

this is

an

White as the callous high brass

Colour sending Kaye on a fatal riis-

romp, which presents him as a sion respectable clean living Pro- fessor, whose British

charm

Or again, Kaye in Nuzi-land, causes him to be pursued by being chased through a ladies' the entire female population cloak

of

room and confing out an American college.

every time în different garb Naturally, such a plot is as a different character. ready made for Terry, and he

Diana Dors gives a good study squeezes every drop of nonsense As the officer's mistress, later out of the plot.

exposed as a Nazi spy, while The plot reaches its climax the officer's wife, made over to when Terry Thomas announces Kaye on his take-over bid, his intention of marrying a played by lovely Dana Wynter. fashion designer Celeste Holme. The film is lavishly produced Els studenta picket his Malibu in Panavision and Technicolour. beach house

So it it's Laughter you're

is

His fiancee's daughter by a after. "On The Double" is your former marriage, Tuesday Weld film.

who inhabit the jazz-cellars of New York, London, and Berlin, one must ask what it is doing in Hongkong

Chantress,

maites a beautiful

en-

As suld carlier, the "Thief of Baghdad" is really a pantomime in film, a fascinating encounter, well suited to the mood of the Christinas holiday.

trick

The comical and episodes are well made. This is a must for all the family this to swoon at holiday season.

For while we have our crazy kids who assume

It is laughter all the way with Danny Kaye in "On the Double," produced in Technicolour and Panavi- sion. Here Danny Kaye is pictured with Margaret Rutherford, Allan Cuthbertson and Dana Wynter. Other noted players are Wilfrid Nyde White and

Diana Dors

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

CHRISTMAS FILMS

QUEEN'S

ROYAL STATE: "On the Double.” Zany story in which Dan- By Kaye Impersonater s tiph Offloer and becomes Involved in a

You'll laugh ath you^bry! Dauny Kaye, Dana Wyd ter, Wilfrid Hyde White, and Margaret Rutherford. Panavision and Tecküler KOT: KING'S

PODWAY: $ "Teenage "Millionaire.”“Song filled beat and bounce film, designed and almet at a leerlago

Jimings and

Clanton, 2840 "Bocky" Grbalano,- LEE & PRINCESS: "Back

Strect.” Third screen ab -at-Fannie Hurst's best feller. Made la Teclinicolor, ploture of guilty splendour is out whopping

tear jerker, with a fashion fashion pirade' td end” “úll'

parades. Definitely

the

the

Yerp

n's ploture of

Susan Hayward,

HOOVER & GALA; "Thief of Baghdad.” - Eastman: Colour

more Booge Fantasy of and Fomance in which the legendary Steve Roves beloves love conquers all: Also Georgia MaN WAT

ROXY & MAJESTIC:

Ba Ahelor Fit Mad concerning * Crazy head in love with a faslibn designer, and the reactions of his students. Terry: Thomas, Tuesday Weld, alid Celeste Holm. Cinema-

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Elvis PRESLEY in "KING CREOLE"

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