AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 159, 17 March 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“SUBMARINE D. 1.” Proclaimed a.s the greatest motion picture ever made with an undersea beat as its subject and locale, “Submarine D-l” has been booked as the feature attraction at the Do Luxe Theatre, and Monday. It is Bros. melodrama O’Brien and George Brent, and featuring Wayne (“lvid Galahad”) Morris. In. the making of it the United States Navy Department deserves as much., credit as the movie folk, for it threw open to the AVaruers its submarine establishments at San Diego, Cocos Coco in the Panama Canal Zone, and Newport, R. I. The most modern of submarines, officially called the D-l and also hearing the title of Dolphin, was used in all diving and surface-naming scenes. Pat O’Brien and AYayne Morris' play a couple of young ' submarine crewmen who have developed two great inventions—a device to shoot men safely to the oeban’s .surface it a ship is sunk, and another device to -raise the U-Boat itself. In the story, the D-l is rammed and-, sunk timing some war game man-; oeuvres, and the boys’ inventions get a. chance to shew their. worth. They are successful in saving the sub’s wlmlo crew and its heroic commander. “PRAIRIE THUNDER” “Prairie Thunder,” back in. Uie 18(50’s, was the thunder of the, hoots of Indian ponies as they battled the invading -white men, plus the tliundei of guns' wielded both by the haioy United States Cavalry and the-red-skins themselves. It was . a time of

battle 'white-jj If was a time when men were forced to live by; their wits and courage alone and such men ns Buffalo Bill, General Custer, and others, enacted the heroic deeds Which made, them legendary figures even while they lived. And so the name is indeed appropriate for the Warner Bros, melodrama that brings their western star, Dick Foran, to the De Luxe Theatre bn Saturday and Monday. —. \ Dick is a soldier, a cavalryman, assigned to the job of guarding and repairing the newly-strung telegraph wires and newly-laid rail lines. The Indians are destroying these at the suggestion of certain -renegade whites, who don’t want their own Jreightwaggoii business to go under. Checking u pon a, break in the telegraph lino made by the Indians. Foran locates the whites responsible tor the _ / feeling of undrest which has pervaded the Indian camps. Realising that he ;. ? knows too much for their own good, they decide to got lfim out of the way. Things look mighty teygli for Foran and for bis sweetheart—-a pretty newcomer to films called Fllon CUuicv when they are. captured by tTie. rcd skins and Dick is. tied to a tree td bo tortured. But the fidelity and bravery .-■■•of himself and bi.s fellow cavalry-, troopers get him out of the jam and; . . the'renegades meet then- proper fate'. -• '