AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 78, 2 September 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“THUNDER TRAIL” From the gifted- pen of Zano Grey comes a Western picture that can’t be topped for drama and thrilling action! It’s Paramount’s “Thunder I rail, ” which comes- Saturday to the Do Luxe Theatre. The story concerns two boys whose father is killed in a raid on a waggon train in the western plains. The two lads are separated in the massacre, and each grows up believing the other dead. Years later, they meet, discover their relationship, and set out together to bring the murderer of their father to, justice.

Charles Barton directed - ‘ ‘Thunder Trail”, which includes Gilbert Roland, Charles Bickford. Mhrslia Hunt, James Craig. J. Carrol Naisli, Barlowe Borland and Monte Bhce in the cast. “ON SUCH A NIGHT”

The unforgettable drama of a tiny group of persons marooned by the relentlessly rising waters of a mighty, river in the flood is told in Paramount’s “On Such a Night-.” which screens Saturday at the I)c Luxe Theatre. Avitli Karen Morley, Grant Richards, Rescue Ka-rns and Eduardo Ciannelli heading the large cast of film favourites. A drama of revenge as fast as the raging waters of the Mississippi. How a mighty river "in flood can twist and change the lives of a handful of people marooned by its rising waters is graphically brought- to the screen in “On Such A Night”. It gave a new life to one man, new love to one woman, blit it tore the lives of seven others apart. “NIGHT MUST FALL”

Something decidedly new comes to Hie screen of the Be Luxe Theatre next Holiday, Tuesday and Wednesday, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor's “Night Must Fall” with Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell. Skilfully directed), by Richard Thorpe, this daring story presents an entirely now technique for crime fiction on the screen. Without the element of mystery, the story introduces a pathological killer whose mission is known to the audience before lie starts to act.

Montgomery chose deliberately to step from heroic roles to this peculiarly difficult characterisation. He saw the London stage play and urged M-G-M to buy it so that he might play thc> killer role. The supporting cast includes some members of the original London east- who appeared during the rim of 55 consecutive weeks. Dame May Whitty, Merle Tottenham. Matthew Boulton and Kathleen Harrison acquit themselves brilliantly in their original stage roles. Also deserving of plaudits are Alan Marshall and E. E. Clive.