ON THE SCREEN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 25, 19 November 1943, Page 4

ON THE SCREEN

REGENT

"Law of the Tropics," a dramatic love story set in the slumbrous atmosphere of a tropical rubber plantation,, will open at the Regent. Theatre next Saturday.' The film has a very fine cast) featuring Constance Bennett and Jeffrey Lynn in the starring roles with Regis Toomey, Mona Maris and Hobart Bosworth 1 in support. Lynn, in the role of a young rubber planter,, is informed while on his way to meet his fiancee from the United States, that she is ; already married. He stops off in a waterfront dive to forget his troubles and he meets; a singer, played by Constance Bennett. She listens to his tragic story and consents when he asks her to marry him and return to the plantation as the girl lie had set out to meet. Unknown to him, the reason she consents so readily is because the police: are on her trail for a crime she had com-j mittpd in New York. At the plantation she finds; that trouble still d,ogs her in the form of a detective who has traced her to her present, home. Jeffrey and Constance have really fallen in love and she is in a dilem-t ma as to whether or not she ought to confess to her crime. Things happen so swiftly and so surprisingly, that it would be unfair to reveal any more of £he story.