AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

v TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY

“ISLE OF LOST SHIPS.”

ALL TALKING DRAMA

No producer has dared to be so imaginative and Succeeded in being likewise so strikingly realistic and eonvieing as the producers of ‘‘The Isle of Lost Ships,” since the time when the same company sponsored “The Lost World.” That, perhaps, explains why this Fir,-it National offering at the Princess Theatre tonight and Thursday is so refreshing and thrilling. Jt takes a very striking romantic and dramatic situation, shipwrecks all the characters, and plunges them, drama, romance and all, into the world’s still unexplored, enigmatic region—-the Sargasso Sea. For Virginia Valli and Jasin Robards (the lovers of the story) and Robert O’Connor (who plays a detective), the Sargasso Sea proves to he inhabited. There’s a little colony there under the rule of an ex-whaling ship captain, portrayed by Noah Kerry Fifty men and two women make up the colony. Of course, the director did not neglect the ’•- opportunities ' afforded for thrilling action. We’re 1 even taken below + h« surface of the sea for a submarine ride! The love affair is novel and satisfying, and the picture also abounds in humor. “The Isle of Lost Ships.” is a film about which we must repeat that oldest, most hackneyed admonition: “You can t afford to miss it.” It’s different. It’s artistic and imaginative and adventurous And above all, it’s highly entertaining. You will long remember how it held you spellbound. Also good "Short Talkies. Prices: 2s and Is 6d, plus tax.