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2.

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Into this strongo, exotic world cama Anna -

Darryl F.Zanuck

presents

IRENE DUNNE REX HARRISON LINDA DARNELL

ANNA AND THE

KING OF SIAM

Directed by

Produced by

JOHN CROMWELL LOUIS D. LIGHTON

200

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AS TOUGH IN TAILS...

UNIVERSAL PRESENTS

Dan

Ella

DURYEA RAINES William BENDIX

WHITE TIE and TAILS

with

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1947.

Paul HOLT

of "Thinking Aloud" fame (sco Page 4) reviews

two outstanding new films

Britain's finest film

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T the end there was a silence. No clapping, no talking. A thousand people got up and walked out of the cinoma like zombies, shuffling, with averted faces. The women were crying, like they do when Miss Hepburn is turned out in the snow; they had, bard, far- away, looks.

It was plain that this audience Just didn't want to talk for 3 while. When they did begin to chatter, it was about trivia, not about the film.

They had seen a very great film. It in In

in In my opinion the best film that has ever been made in Britain and

clearly in the company of the best half-dozen In the world.

It Is better than "Vaudeville" or Metropolis" or "Stare Coach"

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Informer" or "Qual des

It makes the condescending chat- ter of Hollywood magnales ridica- lous and lifts the art and Industry of British films to a pinnacle 'from which we can all look down on the olher fellow. I only hope it doesn't make us all intolerably conceited.

ONE DAY

Once on his march he gives dreadful scream, tapering away

ሆነ

to wall of ulter despair. Time and again he puuses to pin himself to rallings in the attitude of cruci- fixlon. And all the while the indus-

of

James Mason, with Kathleen Ryan.. "Pinning himself again- st the railings in the at- titude of crucifixion,”

"Odd Man Out" la a gunman, a terrorist. The story about him con- ecrus one day in his life. He sets aut to rob a mill, to win funds for trious hunters, all in their different

The acting is unusual.. For once his anarchist organisation.

ways Inspired by the passion cashier, la wounded and pity, pursue him.

there is no type casting, but instead He kills

a half a hundred gusty, gay, grim hunted. The rest of the #lm con- Now you may well think that this and wistful little profiles of humble cerns itself exclusively with the is an immoral theme, for this man prople who want him.

Is a gangster. He robbed a safe and

people.

would pick out first Cyril There are so many hunters with so killed a cashier to get funds for a Cusack, driver of the hold-up cur. mony diferent reasons for the terrorist organisation. The theme Second, F. J. McCormick, a sleasy chase. A girl says: "Let me have redeemed, however, by the Intensity little informer tempted by a precious him with the police get him.” A of its pity for a man who dived as particle of faith in exchange for

priest wants him to sell to him a precious particle of faith. A belief. stumble-bum wants him for the reward.

An artist wants him to paint him, knowing that he is dying, and therefore the mystery of ilving will bo in his eyes. A surgeon wants to mend his body. A policeman wants him for the hanging.

he had to and died for his' unnatural the reward mobility of the gun-

INTOLERABLE BEAUTY

The director, Mr Carol Reed, has won an almost intolerable beauty out of the grinness and violence of his scene.

artist, Robert

of faithful

The lovely mon's girl, Kathleen Ryan: Robert Newton's sad roaring madman

Beatty's an gunman's henchman, Fay Compton's quiet and worried evacuee

While the gunman the crime to James Mason The greasy cobbles and crowd- takes his progress from Hle life ebbs away as he shuffles ed trams of Belfast. The desolo his death with na wonderful modesty. again these crowded his way through this awesome pat- tion of back alleys and empty sur- Again and lern of purault. There is A ler face shelters. His mud is atinging characters break in on his scene, but rible inevitability about his progress. cold and his snow a whispering he patient, willing to give them His eyes cloud slowly with a death. Never before have I sten all the screen, knowing that he is not

death. gathering fog of

pub

with the start he is His steps a

the counter more sodden teeter and his knees give as the spilled beer nor a suburban road The star of the film is the director,

Carol Reed. When he march towards oblivion continues. more dreary in the lamplight.

Somewhere in his progress

harsh ekittering of children willing to keep his camera still there dawns on the spectator that here is playing gangster and the rowdy will be nebody Hike him, on, either

curious

Christ desolation of a street of boming side of the Atlantic. version of the

("ODD MAN OUT" is showing at story. Ecte homo, Behold

Every secné the macintoshes. Perfect. suffering man.

perfect.

the King's).

on "Scarlet Street"

or Park Avenue

n

..ho treats every dome tie same!

UNIVERSAL

FRANK JENKS SCOTTY BECKETT DONALD CURTIS

Screenplay by Bertram Milthauser

RICHARD GAINES • CLARENCE KOLB - BARBARA BROWN

Directed by CHARLES T. BARTON Produced by HOWARD BENEDICT

GOOD S.OUND

AT THE

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SHOWING 'TO-DAY

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THE SCREEN'S MIGHTY DRAMATIC SENSATION! Maureen O'HARA Waltor 'PIDGEON In

Richard C. LLEWELLYN'S

"The

DAN KIDDOSTRUZKINDÉKIBONUMMĽKOUZLUMINI JAARENA KUEL

Alm.

becomes

"Oscar" winner a great picture

say.

A Boldler, a sailor, an airman home from the wars, looking up life again in the little home town they fought so hard to defend. What do they want out of life now that, the fighting's done?

with his

This burns

the up

returning HIS is the best that Holly wants to turn his wartime night club

bride into a homebody. The heroes more than somewhat. Is this wood can do for us. Let's sailer, who lost both hands when his what they fought for, they seem to see what they have to alecraft carrier went down, Just ask. The reaction of the soldier- wants everybody to forget to pity banker, Mr Fredric March, is to go him, to treat him like a normal be on one hilarious bender ing as they used to do. Small wants, ever-loving hugely understanding

sier, wife, Miss Myrna Loy. burd to easier. The airman, Mr Dana Andrews, of course, if the folk these

-walks out on his fibbertigibbet meet back in the home town were mean or villainous. But they are bride, socks an isolationist on the The soldier, a middle-aged banker, not. They are quite extraordinarl- law and proposes marriage to Miss the Loy's sweet daughter, a part ex- wants to give loans farmers ly kind and understanding in without collateral, The airman main towards their returning heroes. quisitely played by Teresa Wright.

Their only sin is that they want to RETURNING HEROES stup the clock.

to

o. With hooks for hands, he places the ring on the finger of the girl who waited and remained -faithful

The president of the bank sees the future In terms pre-war bank- ing. The wartime right club belde would like to continue being a war- time night club bride.

• HOLLYWOOD CHATTER •

GOT THE Best Years of Our Lives"

"TwoBest of

(1) best pleture of 1940, (2)

ISNEY plans to spend £1,000,000 on his "Alice in Wonderland.". There is another version of the

·

The sailor with hooks for hands finally makes up his mind that people have stopped being sorry for him and marries his boyhood sweetheart. That's all. There isn't anything more the Alm wants say.

to

"What it does say-and with an intense sincerity you will find inspiring is that returning heroes are apt to take themselves a mite too seriously, while stay-at-homes have grown selfish under the double burdens of loneliness and privation.

There is

is genius here and it lies wonderful conspiracy

In the

of

writer Robert Sherwood, director

William Wyler and all the acting east to present to you a story about real

people.

Generally when a film tries such a feat all it succeeds in offering is an array of dummies around whom situations are woven.

THEIR FAITH

These people here have a kind of faith in themselves and their story which is in the end Irresistible, To such a degree that if, there puzzling Umes, you. And yourself wondering what Americans are really like this Alm will tell you truthfully,

I

you should and it long-winded and occasionally over-sentimental, don't grumble at that. Americans

to

First credit to director Wyler, who has many magical devices give the air of normality to his screen. For the performances of those magnincent sentimentalists Loy and March I am eternally grate. ful,

LIVES" in the next change at the- Queen's).

best actor, (3), best direction, "(4), classle being made in Parla, but by ("THE BEST YEARS OF OUR best supporting actor, (5) best screen comparison, it will be made on the play, (6) hest film editing, (7) best well-known shoo-string. ** musical score,. (0) the Irving, Thal-. berg award and (0) a special award. The Academy may add a new eward this year-one for the best KO's film dress designer.

,

All designers, of course, would be eligible,

not only the top quintet, Orry Kelly, Eddle Stevenson, Travis Banton, Irene and Edith Head.

production of Eugene Becomes O'Neill's "Mourning Electra" will have an intermission during its three-hour run-the first of it, type since "Gone With the. Wind."

It would add a touch of real The Alm stars Rosalind Russell, glamour to the event if the com- Michael Redgrave, Raymond_Mas-

“HOW GREEN WAS VALLEY" poling gowns were modelled by the Bay, Lee Genn, Kirk Dougies, Henry

MY

with Donald 'CRISP :

Roddy McDOWALL

Spencòr

TRACY

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In-Technicolor.

Nancy

stars who wore them in the picture.. Hull, Katina Paxinou, and

Coleman.

Added producer Dudley Nichols:

JOAN FONTAINE, dining at the The length of Mourning Becomes

Chanteclair with husband Bill Electra" is not the reason for the in Dozier, had her bautiful face done, orvalas apr. volt & up in adhesive tape.

Her cracked ribs were also atrap-The time out is designed express- ped up, but not visible,

ly to give the audience a chance of Sloan, took a toss from a horse on relaxing and getting a fresh grip on

trail near her home recently, its nerves."

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JOHNNY COME LATELY

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A WILLIAM CAGNEY PRODUCTION and Marjorie Lord Hattie McDaniel Edward McNamara

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