REGENT THEATRE
"A DAY AT THE RAOES" "A Day at the Races,' ' with the Mars Brothers, screens finally to-night. With Spencer Tracy, Gladys George and Franchot Tone teamed in the leading roles, Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer's "They Gave Him a Gun" comes to the Regent Theatre tomorrow. Tracy is seen at Fred Willis, circus barker, in the adaptatlon of the William Joyce Cowen best-seller, ' while Fmnchot Tone plays the small-town book-keeper, Jimmy Davis, who turns racketeer following the war. Gladys George is the Red Gross nurse, Rose Duffy, whom tliey both love. When Tracy is reported missing, she marries Tone, out of pity. Tracy escapes from an enemy prison camp and the trio meets again in civil life, with the war ended. Familiar now with the use of a gun, the weakling has become a gangster. Tracy tries to save him but fails. A police bullet gets in ahead of him. As a story and a picture to reflect the evils of war and its aftermath, "They Gave Him a Gun" is a powerful medium. It affords Tracy and his colleagues an opportunity for first rate artistry, which none of them has overlooked. This is a story of war— but it is more than that. It mirrors the life in which ive find ourselves. It pietures the living panorama in which the boys and girls of this generation find themselves, and it gives us a true vision of the effects of war on the generation that survived it.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 80, 28 December 1937, Page 3
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