AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 25, 22 April 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“SLIM” It’s quite an accomplishment these, days —after the movies have seemingly invaded all the trades and professions to, find interesting characters to weave stories around-—for a film producer to discover one occupation which hitherto hadn’t been picturised. And that’s just what Warner. Bros, have done in the case of “Slim,” the interesting and exciting melodrama which screens at the De Luxe Theatre on Saturday. With Pat O’Brien, Henry Fonda, Margaret Lindsay, and Stuart Erwin iu the leading roles, and such excellent supporting players as J- Farrell MacDonald, John Litel, Jane Wyman and Dick Purcell, “Slim” proves to be a first-class movie, with an entirely new background. The very capable Fonda carries the title role. He’s a. farm fad who* becomes fascinated by the work of a linemen gang crossing his acres. Through the aid of “Bed,” played by the always appealing O’Brien, he gets a job and the two become pals. Pat introduces him to his girl friend, dally, a nurse, played by Miss Lindsay. Pat loves her, but doesn’t ask her to marry him because he can never settle down on a linesman’s job; he must keep moving all the time. Gaily likes the quiet-spoken Slim. The gang moves on. Word comes to Callv that Slim has been badly hurt. She leaves her Chicago hospital and goes to the small town where he lives, to nurse him. She learns to love him, having given up hope of lied. The linesmen work across the land, through heat and cold and storms. There are some amazing scenes of their tasks and how they accomplish them. Slim and Bed remain friends. Finally there is an accident, in which both are involved. Each tries to save the other, as they hang high above the ground. It is Bed who' finally has to let go and he goes down to his death, while Slim is saved for the arms of Gaily. “BABBE'D WINDOWS” “Barred Windows,’’ the new Warner Bros, mystery melodrama, screens at the De Luxe Theatre on Saturday. The picture, based on a story by 'Jonathan Finn, is one of the most exciting ever screened, with a. gun battle between dope runners and police, a penitentiary riot scene, two murders within the prison walls and a jailbreak. Despite its melodramatic flavour the picture is not yitliout its romance, the love interest being developed between a star reporter covering the crimes and the secretary of a reformed racketeer, the latter being slain in his cell because he refused to join in a scheme of dope runners. There is a talented all star 1 cast, in addition to hundreds of extras in the I’oleS' of prisoners. Craig Reynolds and June Travis have the leading roles.