ON THE SCREEN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 26, 23 November 1943, Page 4

ON THE SCREEN

REGENT

Hon* would von like to wake up from a dream and find that you wercs wanted for murder? Not a very pleasant thought .but you see that i.s what happened, to Frank Thompson. Walking along the .street one day,, a brick from a building being demolished fell 011 him and he' lost and found his memory. He re mem-, bered he was Frank Thompson and went home to his wife who had not seen him for a year. He lost the memory of the life as Danny bearing and whom the. police wanted for murder. How could he be one and the same man. You'll thrill to the excitement of the story of this man with a double life, when you see Para mo unt's "Street of Chance" at the. Regent Theatre to-night and. tomorrow;

Heroic, roaring", lusty adventure, epitomised in a glorious story oJf tliree gallant brothers who join the French Foreign Legion to demonstrate. their loyalty to each other in the face of being accused, of the theft of a valuable sapphire, will come to the screen of the Regent Theatre 'when Paramount's new pro-: duction of "Beau Geste" is presented locally on Thursday and Friday. Co-starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as Uie brothers "Geste"—Beau, John and Digby, respectively, this, is the. cx-citemcnt-filled tale which finds the love of brother for brother constant in the face of hardship, steadfast in the facc of the efforts of a mad. brutal sergeant to wrest the gem. from them. Produced and directed on a lavish scale by William A. Wellman, the picture is highlighted by thrilling attacks by desert tribes on an isolated legion post, Fort Binderneuf, by the threat of mutiny among the. legionnaires, and by the bravery of the brothers in their loyal struggle not to divulge the secret of' the theft of the jewel. Brian, Donlevy, as the sergeant, Susan Hayward, as the. girl Milland leaves to join the Legion, J. Carroll Naish, Donald O'Connor and James Stephenson head the supporting cast. "Beau Geste" is based on the famous novel by P. C. Wren.