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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27613, 21 March 1955, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS IN THIS WEEK’S NEWS . . . Australian Floods ! More Exclusive Scenes of the Appalling Devastation 'and Havoc as the Flood Waters Recede! ~ MAJESTIC The Show Place of Christchurch Direction: Kerridge-Odeon ’Phone 62-039 Today At 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Plans at Service Bureau in Theatre Foyer from 10 am. to 9 pm. Daily 2nd MIGHTY WEEK! There’s never been another Actor just Like . . . MARLON BRANDO And there’s never been another Motion Picture just as compelling as . . . “ON THE WATERFRONT” Columbia Pictures Present MARLON BRANDO MARLON BRANDO The Screen’s Greatest Actor in what is Undoubtedly the Greatest Role of his Career . . . and Your Greatest Cinema Experience. “ON THE WATERFRONT” (Special "A” Certificate—Unsuitable for Children) Brilliantly Co-Starring Karl Malden Lee J. Cobb And Introducing the Screen Discovery of the year. EVA MARIE SAINT This magnificent picture, already the talk of five continents, captures all the surging emotion of the turbulent waterfront —and the two-fisted way of life of its people. With a towering performance by MARLON BRANDO and Elia Kazan's thrilling direction—the haunting debut of a girl named Eva Marie Saint lifting from degradation the man who lives by the jungle law of the waterfront. It is the gripping and memorable story of the redemption of Terry Malloy. CYRIL AITKEN. Manager.

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