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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1932.

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"

ALTHOUGH billed as a satire on gangsters, racketeers and their ilk. The Innocents of Chicago, now running at the Queen's is better described as a burlesque on the typical Hollywood gang film, of which the past year or so has produced so many. It is

BRILLIANT BRITISH BURLESQUE ON GANG LIFE OF CHICAGO

"DEADLOCK" ANOTHER CLEVER HOMESIDE PRODUCTION - BEING SHOWN HERE

NOTES AND COMMENTS BY "CELLULOID”

than the trailer indicated and the

one of England's first one to Hongkong and is quite cap. attempts at cinema carica-able of the light stuff called for, ture, and as such affords Photography and sound is clearer interesting comparisons action swings along at a satisfy. with the many Hollywood ing tempo.. burlesques.

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THE Soviet Film Trust, Soyuz- kino, has embarked on the

who

HENRY Kendall a favourite in production of a tremendous his

Hongkong appears in the film. Lorical film, the subject of which He is a pleasing type, playing then taken from the life of Stenpan part of a Wodehouaian English Razin, famous as the leader of man who inherits what he thinks one of the earliest pensant upria- Chicago milk business from a Ings in Russia, The Almacenario ja forgotten uncle. Unele, however, turns out to be the Number One of is being written by a prominent

well-established racketeering1 Soviet author Chaplygin, organisation, and it never dawns recently published a three-volumo on the Englishmon that the bus- novel based on the life of Stopan ness is paddling anything but Razin. He is being assisted in produce from the dairy. Once this work by Professor Tomsinaky, the premise is swallowed that, director of the Institute of Hig attached to the U.S.S.R. Englishman, however conservatory tive, could possibly be ignorant Academy of Sciences. The film of Chicago and ita fame, the plot, will be a "talkie", a novel feature of which will be that it will be moves also convincingly.

done in four languages-Russian,

MOST of the laughs come from

English, German and French.

the Englishman's fatuity con- trasting comically with the grim T is a long time since we enjoyed the foolery of Wheeler and taciturnity of the desperadoes against whom he is pitted. Woolsey, but they have made a Dialogue writer and scenarist welcome return to the Central

THE INNOCENTS-Henry Kendall and Margot Grahame an they appear together. In the Brilliant English screan satira "The Innocents of Chicago", now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

50 bnd and the dialogue so poor, that one can either not understand a word, or the observations are not worth hearing.

UT personally the most in-

Bteresting feature of the film

of

SHOWING NOW

Queen's Chicago

"Innocents of

King's Deadlock"

Contral-"Caught Plas-

*tered"

Star-The Ghost Train" Males'ic "After morrow"

То

Taiping-Congorilla" Oriental,-"She Wanted a Millionaire"

TO BE SEEN SUNDAY

Queen's "Cracked Nuts" King's.-"Love me To-

night"

Central-Nighi World" Oriental-"This is the

Night"

was that it provided an excellent example of pure cinoma; cinema of the type which put the best of the old silent pictures in a class their own. The main object of the aesday has given place to Dead- director was to express in the most lock, which has its first showing at forcible language, the complete

unusual angles,

craving for alcohol.

TALTER Huston gave what I

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Looking back from

respito.

covert

8 This flower blossoms when pie makes its appearance around the French Coast.

▸ Acknowledging frankly to be

correct.

The debacle gives out.

12 A condition which may be id-

apted to your own taste.

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failure of prohibition in America, the King's to-day, and The Juno- and it is worth noting that he accents of Chicago, another British production which has already start- complished this to the full, not by led a run at the Queen's. Deadlock hla talking sequences, but through is the first British talkie to be the silent action scenes. The

made which introduces A talkie silent, but masterly acting of Wal-studio as background for the story. ter Huston and Lewis Stone, aid- A Butcher's Empire Production, it ed by beautiful photographic shots, has been directed by George King

and expresslyo "props," gave us a far more power- and reintroduces many of the fa- ful message of the horrors of ex-vourites of silent picture days. It

straightforward and strong 18 Have a dig at this funny old cessive drinking than the hysterical melodramatic plot, written by Char- hat, outburst of Dorothy Jordan when les Bennett, specially to feature the 18 The ideal cheese for a heavy she denounced the men who tens artistes engaged. The film tells meal. ed in wine the memory of her the story of a murder in a Talkie 17 It held its fire on many a memor.

abic night. father who had committed suicide Studio, of which any one of ve 18 The fate of many plays. because he could not satisfy his people might be guilty. The shoot-21 A family in which the whale

is at home. ing takes place whilst the flm star, who is the victim of the mur-29 There would seem to be der, is actually engaged in playing reason why such a sky should W probably his finest screen a scene before the

not be red, have captured the spirit to a de-Theatre during the latter part of the picture, but I will admit one's

camera. The murderer is 24 They plie up centuries. gree that just keeps within the this week in one of their latest astes have to lay in this direction characterisation to date, but he re-way in which the hounds of broad burlesque. The retributions to the world of if the full benefit of the entertain- ecived anlendid support from eventually identified is entirely 25 Ran away and was seen at the

front in the' end. typical M.G.M. "atar" cast includ-novel. The studio equipment not bootlegging jargo, the acering humour, Caught Plastered. They inmortality

T is very very rarely that we ing Lewis Stone, Hollywood's ever-only forms a background to the the gangsters, are the same as ever, without quitement is to be derived. pumped full of lend in terrife repeating their amazing success of receive a picture from Ameri- green player, Neil Hamilton, Jim-atory but actually plays an import- duels, and the hundred and one The Cuckoos. But if you ke types made so famillar, is all wisecracks produced with theta (or from anywhere else for that my Durante (whose personality is ant part in the plob and the ex-29

interesting feature), planatory details given by one of matter) which has powerful his most given its fair share and well speed of a machine gun at high enough theme, sufficiently well sus. Robert Young, Dorothy Jordan, the characters in the story at the 3

could beginning of the film, not only en- appreciate the de-

whore Bob-stuff Requences lightful vocal efforts of Wheeler,tained, to keep one thinking hard,

lons in any direction, and, in the technical side of talking pictures, LUPINO Lane, knockabout Eng- and the crooning love-making of not only during the showing of the have been cut without the slightest lightens the public as regards the

Alm, but afterwards. The fish comedian, held the direc- Dorothy Lee, then you will have

background, John Miljan. A bril, but actually prepares them for the complaint against Almdom has torial megaphone for the Innocents your All of first rate entertainment. of Chicago, and his hand is plainly Some of the jokes have begun to been the superficial nature of its liant array of players who were ao plot which is to follow. The pro- "All star cast." seen towards the end in the rough-grow out of date, whilat others subjects and treatment. But this much in sympathy with the story duction introduces what may well

week at the Queen's Theatre we and its unfolding that their work be called an and-tumble stuff that is perhaps come hot from the oven of origin had a picture, which not only took attained an unusually high stan-Headed by Steward Rome, Warwick Ward, Majorie Hume and Alma dard of merit. In these days fal wit. The film is produced with the films only fault.

Taylor, it introduces also Janice of silck camera work, a little slap typical efficiency aiding the play national and social problems thatTRITISH talkies have been, and Adair, Esmond Knight, Hay Plumb,

With the ers in making the most of their has ever confronted a country, but silek goes a long way. excention of Margot Graham, audparts. As an admirer of these two

Carr, Annette Benson reproduced in such a dynamic

are, in ascendancy in Hong. Cameron Henry Kendall, the east is a new comedians 1, frankly revelled

and impressive way as to rank the kong this week. Carnival which, and the talented Japanese production as one of the most bril. concluded at the Central on Wed-Kiyoshi Takase, itant Hongkong has seen for many

of

arranged to catch the laughs.

Curessaire; call

NNA STEN, upper left, and Fritz Kortner, upper right, stars of the German presentation, "Karamazov." Below, as they are

seen in that picture.

in

chief

as its theme one of the greatest

moons.

THE picturo in question way

The Wee Parade: a' film unnt tended by the usual ballyhoo and hysterical burblings of Hollywood press agents, yet withal one of the most magnificent achievements to the credit of Beverley Hilla. Ontensibly, The West Parade pur- ported to reveal the futility of pro- hibition as a weapon to whip a na- tion into the path of moral and de- cent living. It succeeded, but in so doing it raised the fundamen- tal problema. What action, either State, Private, or Individual, can be taken to prevent the exccasive use of liquor which causes poverty, murders, Buicides, broken homes, shattered lives, desolation and im- morality 7 Of course the film |didn't attempt to answer the ques- tion. That wasn't its aim, but so forcibly did it expose the damning influence of firstly the unbridled sale of alcohol, and secondly tho equally devastating effect of pro- hibition, that the dominant issue before one at the end was this fun- damental problem.

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TN my first paragraph I claimed brilliance as being accurately descriptive of the picture, and I do this despite its many shortcomings. It might have been cut very con- siderably to the benefit of the pic- ture is in expression of cinema and to the audienco na an entertain- ment. Hollywood's persistence in giving negro sequences as comedy -lief is peculiar. Very rarely are they funny enough to produce a laugh, and generally the diction is

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

*

CARBO DOUBLE: But don't call her "Miss Garbo." She is Greta.

Mamma a anation attaullaha rasulains that when

sho travels the uaually la charged double at hotels and is expected to tip lavishly because she is mistaken for the Swedish film star.

Their Chance!

actor

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whom 19 contains their articles Articles of dress with those to

of faith,

Not anually drawn with aut This will give you rennsurance.

cient restraint.

Down

2 Discharge gradually about a hundred and fifty, or ahut out en- tirely,

3 Mercy! girl.

4 Ho works in a foundry and his

heart in full of his work, A give and take affair.

· Trouble put an end to the trust of some of our forefathers, ? Streaked.

8 A

aloft.

fallor-aut

and

hanger-on

10 This Enox village might remaind one of a child's early efforts to write the alphabet--with special roference to one letter (two words).

14 Swot up.

15 Hides from animals, though not

really afraid.

19 The Mohammedan Biblo.

20. Usually holds a good display of

crockery.

21 Artificial imb which was named after the street in which it was first. made (two words).

22 One of Shakespeare's monstro

sities.

20 Name of a dog-bestowed in the

Staice.

27 You should raise a largo num-

ber.

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