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Show w Bloodiest Movies in the World Come From Hong Kong These Days By STEPHEN SIU HONG KONG (UPIKThe bloodiest and possibly the most popular movies in the world come these days not from Hollywood, London, Rome's Cinecitta or the plains of Spain. They emanate from Hong Kong's Movie Town, a half real world sprawling, governed by Asian film magnate Run Run Shaw. The $6 million spread, built 10 years ago on a hillside near Clearwater Bay in Hong Kong's New Territories, is Asia's largest movie complex. From its 10 studios and 16 permanent outdoor sets including a plastic and plaster reproduction of China's Great Wall come 40 films a year, most of them drenched with enough blood for an army of Genghis Khans. Movie Town, which per- manently employs 200 actors and actresses plus a staff of 1,400, has its own industrial plant for manufacturing sets and props anything from an Imitation Korean telephone booth to the fake bronze flower pot in Run Run Shaw's private office. Besides a dormitory for performers, technicians and laborers there are stables for the horses that gallop through Shaw's own visions of the Wild East A hundred yards from Movie Town's main gate stands the y building from which Run Run Shaw, seated behind a massive teakwood desk, oversees the Mandarin movie world he has dominated for nearly half a century. Virtue Triumphant A typical scenario goes like this: The hero (usually dressed in white and armed four-stor- with a sword tilted jauntily over one shoulder) strides confidently through the woods. Suddenly a dozen armed thugs spring from the underbrush on both, sides. "Your money or your life," say the ambushers, brandishing their hardware. Whereupon the hero bounds 20 feet off the ground, unsheathing his sword Price of Confederate By MORT REED In all of the 180 years of American coinage history no story stirs the imagination quite as much as the saga of the Confederate Born out of sheer the incident ended almost as quickly as it began. Leaving only four pieces to show for it. The Act of March 3, 1835 authorized construction of a United States Branch Mint in New Orleans, La., which was completed and in full production by 1838. The building depicted by George L. Osborn's fine ink and ; along the way. The battie proceeds, punctuated by howls and showers of blood, : tiile maimed bodies and limbs accumulate across the screen. For the the unscathed hero finale, walks calmly away, wiping the gore from his glinting sword. Heroes of the Chinese film world donl always rely on swords. Some are adept at bloodying the screen with their bare fists and feet. The biggest box office hit of the year, "The Boxer From Shentung," depicts the adventures of a notorious ruffian in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of World War H. Chinese audiences don't question the invincibility of the hero, even when he slashes 20 enemies in a single sword-strok- e, any more than Western movie-goe- rs object when a cowboy handily fires seven shots from his trusty ng severed Run The Mogul Image Run Shaw, a polite, ? Half-Dolla- rs ' rv I ylSt half-dolla- r. u I Thursday. October 5, raw 1972 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Page 15 shrewd man of 66, lives up to his movie mogul reputation. His three cars are all one gold and gray, the two others black. All have specially built-u- p back seats tailored to his short stature. Besides a pair of private mansions and scores of bungalows used es guest houses throughout Southeast Asia, he's now building a new home atop a hill on his Movie Town lot. It has only two bedrooms but its other features include a huge living room for public functions, a swimming pool and a private Rolls-Royc- es 'V y ! I V y i o cinema. V, Shaw and his elder brother, Runme, now own eight movie houses in Hong Kong and some 200 others scattered throughout Southeast Asia. Ir. addition, the Shaw brothers own cinemas in New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town. Born into a theatrical family, Run Run Shaw got his first taste of the movie business from his father, who owned and' operated Shanghai's Tien Yi cinema, then one of the few in China. People would queue for hours to see a Charlie Chaplin picture. Figuring that Chinese audiences would like 'Chinese pictures even better, the Shaw brothers invested in a movie camera and produced the first Chinese film, "Man From Shensi." Made for $2,000, it quickly earned several hundred thousand dollars. MAJ. EDWARD ELIAS, POW released by the North Viet- namese recently, and wife, Georgia, are shown after holding a news conference at Maxwell Air Force Base. Maj. Ellas, holding his first news conference since being released Sspt. 17, has been undergoing medical examinations for almost a week at the Air Force Base. Maj. Ellas of Valdosta, Ga., pledging his continued allegiance to this country, said be plans to be a military man for the rest of his life. Man at left is unidentified. 50-ce- nt UNITED STATES 0 George L charcoal rendering still stands in the "old" section of the city, just north of Canal Street adjacent to the old French Market. It minted the 1851 silver three-cen- t piece, dimes, quarters, and dollars plus gold dollars, quarter eagles, half eagles, eagles and double - eagles. to be The first half-dollstruck at a branch mint, and the first to carry a mint mark, was coined at the big "O" in 1838. To this day it remains as one of the most valuable coins in a United States series. One of the 20 known specimens brought $14,000 at the Charles Jay sale in 1967. Although it was struck in 1861 the Confederate failed to make a numismatic appearance until 1879 when a specimen and the original dies were found in the possession of Dr. B. F. Taylor of New Orleans, former chief coiner for the Confederate States of America. half-dime- s, half-dolla- -- HALF DOI -- half-doll- CONFEDERATE C STATES HALFDOIi.es The government of the Confederacy took over the New Orleans mint in April 1861 with full intentions of striking an independent coinage of equal weight and value to coins of the Union. This would have been accomplished by using the obverse dies for regular United Osourn Sears 1971 States on genuine half-dollsilver blanks, but backed or "muled" by the seal of the Confederate States of America. A lack of silver bullion brought the project to an abrupt halt but not before four patterns were struck. However, the J. W. 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