“CROSSROADS”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32421, 21 April 1944, Page 5

“CROSSROADS”

BLACKMAIL AND INTRIGUE PROGRAMME AT REGENT WM. POWELL—HEDY LAMARR William Powell returns to familial? ground in M-G-M’s “Crossroads,” a story of blackmail and intrigue which will show at the Regent Theatre on Saturday only. Long absent from, serious dramatic roles, Powell is afforded an excellent opportunity in the film and makes the most of it. Hedy Lamarr is teamed with Powell for the first time, while Claire Trevor and Basil Rathbone lead one of the year’s outstanding supporting- casts. The action of the story takes place in Paris before the current war. Powell is a French diplomat happily married to Hedy. Just as he is made ambassador- to Brazil, an insidiousr blackmail plot is concocted against him by Rathbone and Claire Trevor. They present proof that he is living under a false identity and is really a petty criminal who robbed and murdered a man fifteen years before. The situation of a man’s past catching up with him to destroy all that he holds dear is believably and most thrillingly presented, thanks to the expert direction of Jack Conway. FINALLY TONIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE “Always a Bride” and “Under ground Agent” will show finally tonight at the Regent Theatre. MIRTH-FILLED MYSTERY “A NIGHT TO REMEMBER”. Something new in laughter is assured Regent Theatre audiences when Columbia’s merry mirth-filled mystery “A Night to Remember,” opens on Monday and Wednesday, Loretta Young and Brian Aherne are co-star-red in the gay new comedy which recounts their giddy goings on in Greenwich Village where, between kisses, they hunt killers! Loretta and Aherne are seen in “A Night to Remember” as a young married couple whb move to a basement apartment on the appropriately named Gay Street, in Greenwich Village, that world famous haunt of delightful people. As Jeff and Nancy. Troy, seeking “atmosphere,” for Jeffs latest novel, the co-stars find it— in their new home, a basement apartment which once was a speakeasy; and in their own ba'ckyard, which one morning harbours a corpse! The neighbours provide their share of the excitement, as do the police, who want to know “Who drowned a man in Nancy’s bath tub?” Jeff, under suspicion himself, provides a question of his own: “Who killed' who with a horseshoe —for luck?” And Nancy, .no slouch at parlour quiz games, wants to know the answer to her own little problem: “What kind of clue was Jeff hunting in another

girl’s arms?” The questions—and the answers—are said by Hollywodd to provide a motion picture which is both startling and gay,. an adventure worth enjoying The co-stars prove ideal for each others antic and romantic activities and wisecracks.