AMUSEMENTS Opera House

Grey River Argus, 3 April 1948, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS Opera House

Now Showing: “The Verdict,” starring Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.

“THE VERDICT”

Warner Bros have again scored with another winning trio of talent in the teaming of Sydney Greenstreet. Peter Lorre and Joan Lorring in the new mystery drama "The Verdict’' now showing at the Opera House. In “The Verdict,” a suspensetul drama detailing Scotland Yard’s breathtaking search for an elusive murderer, a story called by “Reader’s Digest.” the most baffling ever written, Greenstreet and Lorre are again close cinematic friends. Greenstreet, as the Yard’s venerable Superintendent Grodman, who loses his job when he contributes such overwhelming circumstantial evidence that an innocent man is wrongly hanged, offers an excellent foil in the picture of the ineffectual, lovable meanderings of Lorre, who portrays Victor Emmric, sensitive, volatile artist, whose solitary habits involve him as one of the ligeliest suspects in a murder mystery. Acting on the murder of a wealthy and handsome young mine owner, Scotland Yard and its new Superintendent Buckley (George Coulouris) are as hard-pressed to prevent another miscarriage of justice to find the murderer. With the appearance of Joan Lorring, as Lottie, the appealing little cockney music hall singer whose emotions for the murdered man were well known, the path of justice grows rockier. And before the truly startling denouement fin absorbing collection of suspects has been turned up for the delight of all self-styled puzzle experts.