TALKIES News, Views and Forthcoming Events

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 45, 4 August 1939, Page 2

TALKIES News, Views and Forthcoming Events

Tile story of "The Citadel ' is that o!" Ardrcw Men on (Robevt I>t.) a b: ill'ant young debtor, who lakes up the fii'st appointment of his career in Britain's most depressed a-., a. the mining township of Blaeneilv, deep in the Sotilh "Wales mount a mi:;. Mere he meets Philip Denny (Ralph Richardson), ;; surgeon with the highest e'eg'ee:, who ha- come to this remote location to forget his wife's infidelit}-. Manson scores the out-of-date textbooks and the in.niciency which he finds in iiis profession. He cannot get local authorities to renew a sewer which is responsible for a typhoid outbreak so goes to the length of dynamiting it at dead of night with Denny's help. At Blacnclly Manson meets Christine -Barlow (Rosalind Russell) local school teacher, and the offer of a better post at nearby Aberalaw, open to a married man only, gives him the courage to propose. They marry and putting their few possessions on a truck ride over the hills to their new home. Here again Manson refuses to accept local tyranny and endeavours to introduce new methods of treatment.

I Manson ard Irs wife finally move to London. He buys a derelict practice and through a friend of his student days, Freddie Lawford (Rex Harrison) he gets a few wealthy patients. He finds that ho has a charming bedside manner and that there is no need to struggle if he is pre. pared to follow in Lawford"s footsteps. To the dismay of Christine he settles down to make a fat living by needless operations, flattery .and worthless medicines. A bungled operation on Philip his lifelong friend, at which Manson assists, brings him to his senses. Appalled at the way he has drifted from his original high ideals he resolves Lo sell out and retire to a small town with a group of clever young doctors. There they set up a combination of physician, surgeon and research worker, each man a special-

I>lll there is more trouble to conic. The General Medical Council accuses Manson of unethical practice a charge filed by his enemies. He iiatlie fight of his l'fe but manages to save himself from being slruck off ihe roll. The final scene shows the "Philip Denny Memorial Clinic" with Doctor Andrew Manson's name heading the list of doctors.

Fi'om the pages of a Leslie Chartens mystery novel that urbane, and ruthless, personality, "The Saint," steps to the screen in one of the season's most exciting screen thrillers — RKO Radio's "The Saint Strikes Back." The film is the second of a series and presents George Sanders in the title vole. Wendy Barrie is the girl in the case, and Jonathan Hale, who created the role of Inspector Fernack in "The Saint in New York'' is again seen as the flustered police officer. Dedicating his life to the cause of justice, "The Saint's'' exploits lead him to a large western city wher? he and Hale, who has been sent by the New York police, assist the authorities in capturing a mysterious underworld figure. Many complications arise to thwart their efforts. The first is tile meeting of Sanders with Wendy Barrie a determined young lady who has her own means and methods of uncovering the identity of the wanted murderer in an effort to establish her deceased father's innocence of a crime of which he was unjustly accused. When Sanders stumbles on a sum of money stolen from a bank and safely stored in the safe of a noted art patron, complications are further increased, so Sanders takes matters in his own hands without the aid of the police. Suspicion is thrown on Sanders, and for a time every member of the cast is suspected of being the wanted criminal.