AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 149, 22 February 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“THE RETURN OF THE SCARLET “PIMPERNEL" young actor's brilliant I > KBIT

A you 11*5 lii’itisJi actor makes a sensational iilm debut- in "’I lie Return (j[ the Scarlet 1 *inipt-rin*l’ . which screens at the De Luxe Theatre Thursday amil I'' inlay. -Matinee Thursday. H t . i' Hairy K. Hallies, who lias the unenviable task ui purtrayiiw Sir 1 eicv | ■lakeney, a rule brilliantly created on the screen by Leslie Howard. Despite tins handicap Ha rues puts up a juajuiiticeut perloruiauce and there is no doubt that he is a discovery of first class importance. Only 2S years of a-e. Haines has the technique of a man twice as old. T<k film, as the title implies, is a further chapter in the adventures ol the mail who struck terror into the heart' of men oi terror —‘‘that doomed elusive RimpermT . And his sequel i> even more thrillinu than the excellent Howard version. jNeariv everyone is I a miliar with the Rareness Ore/.y elia vacter. the l*.i in I ish dandy who devoted his life to the resem i'nueent victims of the French Revolution. "T,lic Return ol the Hi inlet RimpermT’ takes up the story at the point where the identity ol the Pimpernel is known to tile tyrant Robespierre ami his eliiel ol police. Chameliti. Hut evm this knowledge dims not prevent the audacious Sir Percy Jrom rescuing victims Irom im-dci tii <2verv shadow ol tin oiiiliotine. In an effort to trap the Pimpernel.,' (‘ham oliii kidnaps tin- beaiitilnl Lacl.LJiiakitiey. in i prison in-_r her in Paris.Sir Pcrcv follow.-*, and greatly d-iriaji. off, ms her rescue. but is then himself foil. ,1 by foxy t >.ia M volill.

With Lady Hlakeiiey recaptured and' laciim: execution within a lew days. Pinkeney engineers a coup which, in y thrilling climax, icsiilt- in the ddwn,i'ail ol the refiime of tyranny, the capture of Chaiivoiiii. ami üboVo all,,_tJiej u— lie of his adored wife.

Thu eohnuliil c.\citiiii£ story. thq.f-o-J, man tic clui mi <?f Barry K. Marnes.. tluj soft Leantv ol Sophie .-tun'art. ;• iiJjthrs excellence of tlie suppci till” phivO>*; Alarira rut to Scott. •taum- -M asou|| Francis Lister and Anthony 11 11 si»c*5/. make ‘"The Return of the Pimpernel" a momorahle oveni:i<r’s cfli? ter tain ment. y lDo not miss it. Cldv

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