AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 240, 29 September 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

( ‘IN OLD MEXICO” The war waged by Mexican bandits :i members of an old Mexican ranching family, who are close friends of “Hopalong Cassidy,’’ brings the ad-venture-loving “Bar 20” foreman across the Bio Grandle in Paramount’s new outdoor drama.,. “In Old Mexico.” In this picture, which opens to-night* at the Regent Theatre, “Cassidy” rounds up the gangsters by pretending to strike up a romance with the bandit chief’s attractive but lawless sister, ihe loader of the Mexican bandits is “the Fox,” who figured in “Border- * ul” a season ago, and so “In Old Mexico” is the first sequel in the history of the “Hopalong Cassidy” pictures. William Boyd, George Hayes andl Bussell Hayden play the three American ranchers who' bring law and order'' into the Mexican cattle country. “IDLES AL TRAFFIC’ ’ V A thrill-packed story Written around an amazing shakedown racket—-Mh© transportation of fugitives-from-jus-tice across state and national borders for exorbitant sums—is told in Paramount’s “Illegal Traffic”, which opens to-night at the Begent Theatre yyit-h-a. fine cast of character players..'J. (Air-, rol Naisli, playing the leader of a gangdom making its last stand, will ho seen as the chief of a racket going on all over the nation to-day in spite of all the efforts of the Government to rout it. Naish. meets his match in th© person of Robert Preston, a slick Gman, who joins the gangsters as an airplane pilot and turns the tables on them in a smashing climax. r Ss “GUNGA DIN” ' ; * y -.s-V J* Against the colourful of Oriental glamour, the crashing echoes of roaring guns, the clash of sword and 1 bayonet, the tradition of ' an humble hero stands prominently ,outlined on the* motion picture screen —“Gunga Din.” Based on Rifdyard Kipling’s poem of the same title, tlip •’ picture presents the spacious action within which a native bhisti, or watercarrier for British troops, sin-mounting his lowly origin, fights tiger when undgit fire, and. performs cxira- yt ordinary deids of yalour. The Kipling tradition of fair play is carried on and enlarged! to magnificent proportions by the screen. The sensational RKO Radio %lm offers its thrilling action and plentitude of Lietail to entertain millions of movie patrons, Compared with" such an audience. even the vast army of purely literary admirers who paid homage to Gunga is dwarfed by contrast. Every lover of action andl.romance will revel in the scenic splendour and 1 popular appeal of Hollywood’s spectacular adventures of three soldier friends whose bravery Gunga Din shares—man for man despite his meanly origin. ' v ... Co-starred in- the 'productionltS T RKO are Cary Grant, Sfictor Mo] -igloo and Douglas FairbEtjjlCs Jr-,. three British soldier sometimes torinentorMpqf'''l suffering bhisti, who is remembered f^ifc hi$-.roTe high priest of %tkingri-La in “The Lost Horizon.” JoaTfiFontaine plays a romantic interest opposite young Fairbanks; the Grant and McLaglen roles as his buddies being of the rough-and-ready, roistering type. “Gunga Din’’ will he screened next Monday, ' Tuesday and Wednesday at the Regent TheatrG.