The Theatres
REGENT For once a new angle is discovered to the Civil War in "The Man from. Dakota," which opens at the Regent c Theatre oai Thursday without the customary North vs. South and family divided against itself theme. Instead, the leading characters are two Yankee prisoners; of war who escape the Confederate prison camp at Be-ller Island, and. a Russian girl who joins them as a fugitive after she has killed: -a Confederate officer who mistreated her. And the result is one of the fastest moving, most hair-raising melodramas of the past year. Wallace Beery is the escaped Yankee sergeant who wants only to keep his stomach filled and head West;, John Howard is his. young and idealistic superior officer bent on regaining the Union lines, and Dolores Del Rio makes an impressive return to the screen as the Russian girl, Jenny. All; three enter into the spirit of the MacKinlay Kantor story With a wrve and sincerity which thrilling supporting characterisations are given by such familiar figures as Donald Meek, Robert Baxrat, Addison Richards, Frederick Burton, William Haade and John Wray.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 156, 17 September 1941, Page 4
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184The Theatres Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 156, 17 September 1941, Page 4
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