GOOD MYSTERY

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3279, 23 June 1943, Page 5

GOOD MYSTERY

“NO HANDS ON THE CLOCK” “’POWDER TOWN” ALSO PROGRAMME AT THE REGENT “No Hands On The Clock,” starring Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Dick Purcell, Rose Hobart, Astrid Allwyn, will show at the Regent Theatre, Friday night only. The most baffling mystery that ever held you breathless ... A corpse was their best man ... a murder chase their honeymoon. Plenty of action and refreshing comedy mark the RKO Radio film “Powder Town,” which will also show at the Regent Theatre Friday only. Victor McLaglen and Edmond O’Brien are the heroes of hair-raising adventures, which arise from experiments with new explosives at the Jupiter Powder Plant. A young scientist (Edmond O’Brien) is taken from his research laboratory to the Powder Town to evolve a new explosive. The scientist is very eager but also very absent-minded and his life is constantly in danger. To protect him from his own carelessness and from scheming saboteurs, Victor McLaglen, as a two-fisted powder worker, is ordered to be his bodyguard. Edmond O’Brien and Victor McLaglen form an unique pair, full of contrasts and yet alike in their natural attitude towards any obstacles life in the Powder Plant may confront them with. There is also romance in the film. Dorothy Lovett and June Havoc play two dance hostesses, who both take interest in the young scientist. But Victor McLaglen claims one <xf them as his girl and the complications are manyfold.

While the girls at the boardinghouse, among them Marion Martin and Frances Neal, try to use the scientist’s absent-mindedness as best they can, to get a share of his large salary, two gangsters are out to get his secret formula of the new explosive. By engaging the girls’ help they, however defeat their own end and a thrilling climax is provided when the saboteurs gag and bind the scientist and his bodyguard in a room full of explosives, where a time bomb is set. FINALLY TO-NIGHT “ TWIN BEDS ” “ Twin Beds” will show finally tonight at the Regent Theatre.