GOOD WESTERN

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32307, 1 September 1943, Page 5

GOOD WESTERN

“ TWILIGHT ON THE TRAIL ”

PROGRAMME AT REGENT , ■ . ’ “ATLANTIC CONVOY” ALSO Sir guns xoar again in “Twilight On The Trail,” newest and swiftestmoving of the Paramount “Hopalong” Cassidy action dramas of the wild west, which will show at the Regent Theatre on Thursday and Friday. William Boyd, as “Hopalong,” and his hard-riding pals, Andy “California” Cylde, and “Lucky” Johnny Nelson, played by Brad King, go through a series of exciting adventures amid the magnificent scenery of the Cisco range before they succeed in wiping out a desperate gang of cattle rustlers. Wanda McKay supplies the heart interest. Break-neck action, fabulous adventure and thundering thrills are promised for Regent Theatre patrons on Thursday and Friday when Columbia’s “Atlantic Convoy,” will also show at that theatre. Featuring Bruce Bennett, Virginia Field and John Beal in its cast, the new thriller tells a dramatic story of America’s flying Marines and their valiant efforts to blast Axis subs out of the North Atlantic.

The story takes place at a small flying base somewhere in Iceland, where Bennett, a Captain in the Marine Corps, is entrusted with the job of protecting Atlantic convoys. Infuriated at recent torpedoings, most of the Marines at the base suspect their weatherman, played by Beal, of tipping off local Nazis as to convoy departures, etc. Before their suspicions, can be confirmed or repudiated, Miss Field enters the scene, when a ship, on which she was fleeing from Europe, is torpedoed. One of hei* fellow-survivors is revealed as a Nazi agent and he manages to implicate Beale in his affairs.

A number of hair-raising incidents then take place, but the .film c-omes to a smashing climax when Beal, really an ex-Marine, proves his innocence by heroically risking his life in order to protect the Marine harbour from a devastating explosion! FINALLY TO-NIGHT “THE REAL GLORY” “The Real Glory” will show finale-to-night at the Regent Theatre.