The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 186, 28 November 1941, Page 8

The Theatres

REGENT

One of the most exciting stories tn American fiction comes into vivid, powerful reality on the screen of the Regent Theatre on Saturday, when Paramoxint's Teclinicolour film Version of Harold Bell Wright's gripping novel, "The Shepherd of the Hills," will be presented to local audiences. Wright's story lost nothing in its. transfer to the screen. Ratlier, the tale is more vivid, more compelling, as told by the camera. This is due, in large measure, to the superb acting ability of its stars, John Wayne, Betty Field and Harry Carey, and the brilliant supporting i-ast. Each seems perfectly cast; each gets to the very heart of the characters. Henry Hathaway's direction is noticeable throughout the picture, in its great outdoor scene with their colourful magnificence, in tho unswerving path followed by the picture, right up to the shattering climax of the gun duel between John Wayne and Harry Care}', as father and son, and the romance between Wayne and Field. GRAND ACTION AND COMEDY A candid cameraman, a lovely society editress and a shrewd and daring gang of blackmailers from the elements of the story of "Here's Flash Casey," starring Eric Linden and Boots Mallorj'. As the first film to dramatise the current craze for candid camera shots of the news, "Here's Flash Casey" brings to the screcn a novel and thrilling drama of modern pictorial journalism. The story of the film deals with the adventures of a photographer whose scoops nearly prove his undoing as they involve him innocently with a gang of blackmailers. A comedy of New York's Gay White Way and its hectic backstage life, ''Footliglit Fever" is said to be one of the funniest films about the theatrical profession screened in

many years, and presents the same background and leading characters as in "Cilrtain Call" recently released by RKO Radio. The amusing story is concerned with the devious methods employed by Alan Mowbray and Donald Macßride, stage director and producer respectively, to obtain financial backing for their newest play.