“SUNDOWN”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3294, 30 July 1943, Page 5

“SUNDOWN”

UNFORGETTABLE PICTURE PROGRAMME AT REGENT STIRRING BACKGROUND Against the stirring background of one of England’s furthest outposts in Africa a thrilling new experience in adventure is related in “Sundown” which will show at the Regent Theatre on Saturday and Monday. “Sundown” was produced by Walter Wanger who also produced that unforgettable picture “Foreign Correspondent. “Sundown” has been adapted from the Saturday Evening Post serial by Barre Lyndon and was written as a tribute to the small bands of men who guard the outposts of the Empire. This is their timely Story and a more thrilling one has never been told. Superbly in the tradition of “Lives Of A- Bengal Lancer” and “The Drum,” the film tells the story of six white men and one beautiful girl isolated in a lonely military outpost, in the hinterlands of Britain’s isolated Kenya Colony in Central East Africa.

The cast is headed by Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders, Reginald Gardiher and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Tfie’.'small group “of men” at the British Residency who rule over several hundred thousand savage natives are in constant danger of annihilation by the savage tribes, espec-ially-when the latter are supplied with fire-arms by enemy gun-runners. FINALLY TO-NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE “Invisible Woman” and “Margie* will show finally to-night at the Regent Theatre.