THE PALACE THEATRE.
At - the Palace Theatre tonight the head of the programme will be the much-dis-cussed "49th Parallel." Five great stars head the' cast — Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Eric Portman, Anton Walbrook, and Raymond Massey. Of course, no story is ever com plete without the mist of romance, which is brought into "49th Parallel" by the feminine lead, Glynis Johns, seen as a Hutterite maiden, who has such a wholesome effect on one of the Germans that he is shot by his comrades for "treachery and desertion." Raymond Massey plays the care- free Canadian soldier who overstays his leave, and is glad of it when it gives him a chance to whip. the ring-leader of the U-boat fugitives. Laurence Olivier plays a French Canadian trapper who comes against the sinister sextet, paying with his life in a vain attempt to transmit a wireless S.O.S. after they have taken over his trading post. Anton Wal brook completes the roster of the stars as the leading light of the Puritanical Hutterite Colony, where the antithesis of Nazi and Christian doctrine is most marked when the Nazis seek shelter within its environs,
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 6
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190THE PALACE THEATRE. Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 6
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