AMUSEMENTS FOR MEN . . . FOR WOMEN . . . FOR EVERYONE . . . "TO HELL AND BACK" IS SUPERB ENTERTAINMENT . . . RANKING WITH THE GREATEST MOTION PICTURES OF ALL TIME ... A TRUE-LIFE STORY THAT FASCINATES AND GRIPS FROM THE OPENING SCENE TO ITS EXCITING CLIMAX 1 majestic The Show Place of Christchurch Direction: Kerridge-Odeon ’Phone 62-039 Plans at Service Bureau In Theatre Foyer from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Daily TODAY AT 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. MARCHING WITH THE GREATEST! . . . THE MOST EXCITING TRUE STORY TO COME OUT OF WORLD WAR II! This is a True Story . . . Told with All the Heart . . . the Humour . . . the Guts and the Fighting Glory of the Men Who Were There ... a Story as Real as the Man who tells it . . . and the Men Who Were With Him! Universal-International Presents in C-I-N-E-M-A-S-C-O-P-E AND TECHNICOLOR The Exciting True-life Story of Audle Murphy “TO HELL AND BACK” “TO HELL AND BACK” “TO HELL AND BACK” “TO HELL AND BACK” “TO HELL AND BACK” “TO HELL AND BACK” Starring AUDIE MURPHY AUDIE MURPHY AUDIE MURPHY ... In the Role Which He Played in Real Life Marshall Thompson Charles Drake Gregg Palmer Jack Kelly The Exciting, True-Life Story of the World’s Most Decorated Hero . . . Audie Murphy . . . the Boy who Became a Man the Hard Way ! Just a Kid, too young to shave . . . but old enough to win every medal his country had to give ! (Recommended by Censor for Adults.) Also Screening: •'TROPICAL NORTH” Australian Interest "CONVICT CONCERTO” Riotous Woody Woodpecker Colour Cartoon Featuring Lizst’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody RESERVE WITHOUT DELAY AT THE MAJESTIC METRO THEATRE Colombo Street, Sydenham ’Phone 88-600
7.15 p.m. TONIGHT 7.15 p.m. The Jolting. Jarring Melodrama of a Killcrazy Fugitive and the Cop who hounded him through the Twisted Alleys of Border Town Slum . . . “NAKED ALIBI” “NAKED ALIBI” Starring Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Marcia Henderson Associate Attraction: MARGARET LOCKWOOD WENDELL COREY RONALD SHINER In the Technicolor Blaze of Romance, Comedy, Drama and Lilting Melodies . . . “LAUGHING ANNE” “LAUGHING ANNE” (Both Rec. by Censor for Adults)
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27875, 25 January 1956, Page 1
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