AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 105, 4 November 1938, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

"LANCER SPY” The boldest venture a British- .secret agent ever I'aeed, impersonating an officer in the German high command, forced to gamble on the love of a. woman whose business-was. betrayal, with the opportunity to strike the deadliest blow of the great war if he lived, is the theme of tint screen’s most suspenseful espionage drama, "Lancer Spy,” Twentieth-Oentury-Fox picture featuring Dolores Del Bib, George’Sanders and Peter Lorre, which opens Saturday at the Do Luxe Theatre. Revealing with jolting realism an untold chapter oif the World War, "Lancer Spy” is brought to vivid life by the acting discovery of the year, George Sanders, whose genius was first glimpsedi in "Slave Ship” and "Lloyd’s of London”. With a traitorous, woman in love with him, enemy spies watching his every, move, a. million men awaiting the success of his mission and the firing squad if he fails, Sanders has the leading romantic role in the thrilling drama. Virginia Field, Sig Rumann, Joseph Scliildkraut, Maurice Moscovich, Lionel Atwill and Luther Adler arc included in the stellar cast. With one chance in a thousand that he’ll ever return, Sanders, a British naval officer, impersonates a captured German officer whom he re-

sembles, and crosses .the lines on a mission of espionage and counter-es-pionage, crons and double-cross, with no loyniitics or loves unless they can serve a purpose. To bolster the morale of the Berlin citizenry, depressed by some of the darkest hours of the war, tho general staff makes a hero out of Sanders, and he is decorated by the Kaiser himself. The only suspicions are voiced bv' Sig Rumann, who sends Dolores Del Rio to trap Sanders, and Peter Lorre, his aide. But, thanks to a British spy, Sanders is able to fool liis beautiful investigator, and she soon falls in love with him. It is only then that she discovers his identity, hut when this happens she is on his side. In a brilliant coup Sanders gets the information ho wants and is about to escape, when he is detected by Peter Lorre. Here the film reaches a climax in a dramatic conflict.

"UNDER SUSPICION” Mystery that will bnlrle the most Sherlockian solvers of detective stories. provides the thrilling action and drama for Jack Holt’s new Columbia picture, "Under Suspicion,” which opens at the J)e Luxe Theatre on Saturday. Adapted for the screen from a magazine story by that top-flight concocter of murder mystery yarns, Philip Wylie, it is a stirring story of an assassination, plot aimed at a wealthy motor car magnate because he suddenly turns philanthropic and decides to give his plant away to his employees.