GOOD MYSTERY
“THE FALCON TAKES OVER” PROGRAMME AT REGENT' “A NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS” Sparkling with a brilliance and •originality that makes it a notable addition to the season’s mystery offerings, “The Falcon Takes Over,” will show at the Regent Theatre on Friday only. George Sanders once more plays the title role of the suave amateur sleuth, but the story and its absorbing development strike off along existing lines. The central menace in the plot is that of a giant convict, Moose Malloy, who breaks out of prison to ayenge himself on his faithless girl friend, Velma, and. who ruthlessly kills everyone in his way as he searches for her. When Police Inspector O’Hara is baffled by the case, The Falcon takes a hand and sets out on the trail of Malloy as well as that of .Velma, a trail that leads to a number of mysterious characters, including a haughty society girl, two gamblers, a fortune-teller and an underworld crone. Several of these become victims of Malloy’s deadly wrath before The Falcon, aided by a resolute young girl reporter, brings abput the surprise conclusion of the affair. “A Night In New Orleans,” starring Preston Foster, Patricia Morrison, Chasf Butterworth, Cecil Kellaway and Albert Dekker will show at the Regent Theatre on Friday only. Here’s a mystery thriller that will send the thrills up your spine. Paramount’s brand new, streamlined mystery drama.
SPARKLING COMEDY “NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH” “Nothing But The Truth,” will show-to-night and Thursday at the Regent Theatre.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3299, 11 August 1943, Page 5
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250GOOD MYSTERY Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3299, 11 August 1943, Page 5
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