REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 14

REGENT THEATRE

LAST TIME TO-NICHT Clive Brook's latest A.T.P. production, "Lonely Road," concludes at the Regent to-night presents this star as Hollywood meyer visioned him. For here, at last, , is the real Brook dn the role he was born to play — an excommander of the British Submarine Service, working hand-in-glove with Scotland Yard to capture a daring gang of gun-runners operating on the English coat. When the picture opens we find him, a rejected suitor, driuking heavily to drown his sorro.ws at his town club, with only a blood-red rose, a last gift frocn the girl he loves,; as a companion. Later, still decidedly the worse for liquor, he climbs heavily into his car, which, with a deep-throated roar, speeds into the night — destinatioD unknownl After a hair-raising drive, he aceidentally stumbles upon a gang landing contraband machine guns labelled "Carpet Sweepers," and here begins one of the most exciting phases of this breath-taking drama, that will keep you thrilled to your finger-tips, until the final fade-out. Playing the role of a little danco-hall partner, Molly Gordon, whose brother is unwittingly entangled with the gunrunning gang, Victoria Hopper gives one of the most pleasing performances of her career, while another outstanding piece of work is that of Frederiek Peisley, as the brother, who is ultimately acquitted through the efforts of Brook. Many of the scenes in "Lonely Road" were taken in the West of England, and it is here that Clive Brook has his exciting experienees in n highpcwered sports car.