ON THE SCREEN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 7, 17 September 1943, Page 4

ON THE SCREEN

REGENT

After forty-one motion pictures, tnll and lean Randolph Scott has decided that his favourite spot as an actor is in a western background. He finds himself in this favoured setting again Columbia's Technicolour outdoor picture, "Desperadoes," now at,the Regent Theatre with Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes and Edgar Buchanan also featured. Although Scott has been seen in every type of picture, from parlour problem plays to murder mysteries, it was in pictures like •'The Thundering Herd," "The Texan," "Jesse James," "Western Union," "Virginia City" and the current "The Desperados" that he felt most at home. GRAND Her husband told lier to get o hobby, but. he never expected her to pick a tall, tan, sea-going glam-our-iguy. And, when the hubby is a ! "love" doctor who makes his living fixing, up. other people's lives, then 3011 have one of the. most unusual situations ever filmed. This is just what happens in 20th Century-Fox's new comedy "Moon Over Her Shoulder," the film at the. Grand Theatre. Other members, of the featured cast are Alan Mowbray, Leonard Carey, Irving Bacon, Joyce Compton and Lillian Yarbo.

Republic's widely popular Roy Rogers action westerns go modern for the first time in 'Red River Val-» ley.," ivhich comes to the Grand Theatre Friday-Saturday. Hitherto, the singing cowboy's adventures have been laid in historical times, with Roy portraying such characters as Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, etc., but in "Red River Valley" he dons modern garb for the first time since his initial picture, the much discussed "Under Western Stars."