AMUSEMENTS A Western with a New Look! The King . . . CLARK GABLE AFTER QUARTER OF A CENTURY HE IS STILL WOOING HIS HEART S DELIGHT BUT THIS TIME FOUR OF 'EM. IN FANCY CLOTHES, FANCY NOTIONS, COOL COURAGE AND MORE THAN HANDY WITH A SIX-SHOOTER And . . . Four Queens . . . ELEANOR PARKER "SABINA” WAITED FOR HIM WITH A SMILE SARA SHANE “ORALIE” . . . SHE CRIED BARRARA NICHOLS “BIRDIE” . . . SHE TEASED JEAN WILLES “RUBY” . . . SHE FOUGHT JO VAN FLEET. “MA McDAVE,” THE ACID MOTHER WHO GUARDS HER CHICKS TODAY 11 —2 5 8 p.m. SATURDAY: 2— 5 8 p.m. MAJESTIC The Show Place of Christchurch Direction: Kerridge-Odeon ’Phone 62-038-39 Reserve at Theatre 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. RUSS CHAPMAN MANAGER United Artists Present “THE KING AND FOUR QUEENS” CINEMASCOPE TECHNICOLOR (Recommended by the Censor for Adult Audiences) THE LUSTY AND PROVOCATIVE YARN OF A • DASHING ADVENTURER WHO CONNIVES HIS WAY INTO AN ABANDONED TOWN IN SEARCH OF A HIDDEN GOLD LOOT. THE ONLY INHABITANTS OF THIS PLACE ARE FIVE TRIGGER-HAPPY, MAN-HUNGRY WOMEN WHO ARE UNLEASHED UPON GABLE, WHO MAKES ALL THE EXPECTED PASSES AT THEM METRO THEATRE Colombo street. Sydenham ’Phone 88-600 Wide Screen—Mirrophonic Sound
Owing to Extraordinary Length of Programme Session Commences 7 p.m. Tonight MONSTER MATINEE 1.30 TOMORROW CINEMASCOPE And Colour Your Heart Will Sing With Joy at the Warm, Wonderful Story of “A MAN CALLED PETER” (G) Starring Richard Todd Jean Peters Marjorie Rambeau Jill Esmond Les Tremayne Robert Burton And on the Same Programme: It's Pay-off Night for the World’s Most Dangerous Profession, Undercover Agents, move in and Spin a Deadly Web of Intrigue . . . “THE CROOKED WEB” (G) Frank Lovejoy Mari Blanchard (Both for General Exhibition) EMP I R E PAPANUI - ’Phone 48-283 FINALLY TONIGHT 7.20 p.m. Love, hate and adventure amidst the full fury of the tropics! JOHN PAYNE MARY MURPHY “HELL’S ISLAND” (Recommended for Adults Only) TONY CURTIS FRANK LOVEJOY MARY MURPHY “REACHHEAD” “Beachhead,” a saga of Marine gallantry in a suicidal mission a few days prior to the Bougainville Battle (Recom. for Persons 13 and Over) SATURDAY, MON., TUES., 7 p.m. Matinee Saturday See Below. Paul HENREID, Patricia MEDINA in a sensational swashbuckling adventure . . . “PIRATES OF TRIPOLI” (Approved for General Exhibition) Ava GARDNER, Humphrey BOGART in one of the year’s most fascinating and Entertaining Films “BAREFOOT CONTESSA” (Recommended for Adults Only) MATINEE SATURDAY 1.45. “Pirates Of Tripoli” and SpeciallySelected Shorts. (G). “THE KOSY”—HORNBY
8 p.m. TONIGHT 8 p.m. 2 p.m. SATURDAY 8 p.m. MIRTH! MODELS! MUSIC! Their funniest yet . . . DEAN MARTIN JERRY LEWIS “ARTISTS and MODELS” (G) The comedy kings with their most colourful goofy adventure yet, as [they don smock and beret . . . crash the crazy world of art, and run riot as comic illustrators.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28399, 4 October 1957, Page 1
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