THE PALACE THEATRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 6

THE PALACE THEATRE.

The final screening of "The 49th Parallel" is announced for to-night at the Palace Theatre. To-morrow there will be a big programme presented. In addition to the usual budget of war pictures, a special "small" • feature of half-an-hour's duration will be shown. This is "With the N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East." During the last advance by the New Zealanders in Libya certain German-made ffims were captured and these are what are being screened. They show the actual landing of troop-carrying planes and gliders on Crete and close-up views of New Zealanders who were taken prisoners on the beaches of the island. The feature ffim is "Call Out

the Marines." Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe are back in the Marine Corps! The quarrelling, romancing devil-dogs whose exploits won them undying fame in "What Price Glory" and "The Cockeyed World," are teamed again in an exciting modern comedy-drama of the Service. The story presents the pair as old buddies who accidentally meet in civilian life after a long separation, and who go to the races to celebrate. There they meet the attractive Vi (Binnie Barnes), an entertainer at a waterfront cafe patronised by Service men and, unknown to them, a member of a foreign spy ring. Following Vi to the cafe they soon realise that their civilian attire puts them at a disadvantage, whereupon they re-enlist in the Corps, glorying in wearing the uniform again. They flnd that their oid commander, Captain Blake, owns the cafe. He supposedly has been dishonourably discharged from the Marines. In reality, Blake is working with the Intelligence Department in an effort to capture the spy group to which Vi belongs. The rivalry between the two devil-dogs leads to one side-splitting exploit after another, but reaches a climax when the pair observe Blake and Vi in a suspicious situation and blunder into it, ruining Blake's scheme to trap the spy ring. How they atone for their mistake, rounding up the spies in a mile-a-minute chase, makes a side-splitting climax.