THE PALACE THEATRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 243, 15 October 1942, Page 6

THE PALACE THEATRE.

"The 49th Parallel" is having a good run at the Palace Theatre. It will be shown again to-night. It is, of course, a propaganda film, but the theme is treated from an angle that is new to picture form. There is no love interest in the story, if a budding interest is excepted, which, however, had a very short shrift. The theme of the plo't treats of the disciplme and reverence for a superior officer that is. embued into. the ordinarv Nazi tO' saturation point. Submarine U37 has. been operating to some purpose along the sea lanes from Canada, and is being hunted in turn. She puts for refuge into Hudsons Bay and a detaehment of six men and a lieutenant is told to go ashore and hold uu a trad-

ing post near by and obt-ain food and fuel. With the detachment ashore ' the U-boat is discovered and bomtaed to destruction by Canadian planes. The survivors ashore hold up the 1 post and then the whole picture is ' devoted to their amazing attempt to | make their way through Canada to the United States, then neutral, and so back to the Fatherland. The way is strewn with murder and pillage, but one by one they are accounted for, although the final one of the seven all but sueceeds.