REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 82, 30 December 1937, Page 11

REGENT THEATRE

THEY HAVE HIM A GDN." With Spencer. Tracy, Gladys George and Franchot Tone teamed in the leading roles, Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer's ' ' They Gave Him a Gun" screens at the Regent Theatre to-night. Tracy., is- seen at Fred Willis, cireus barker, in the adaptatlon of the William Joyee Cowen best-seller, while Franchot Tone plays the small-towu book-keeper, Jimmy Davis, who turns racketeer following the war. Gladys George is tho Red Cwss nurge, Rase Duffy, whom they 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 gaiigster. Tracy trie? to save him but lails. A police bullet gets in ahead of him. As a story and a plcture to reflect the evils of war and its aftermath, "They Gave Him a Gun" is a powerful medium. It affordB 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 thau that. It mirrors the life in which - we find ourselves, It pictures the living panorama in which the boys and girls of this geueration find themselves, and it gives us a true vision of the elfecta of war on the generation £hat survived it.