AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 241, 2 October 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“CUNGA DIN” ..;r •‘Romance and adventure, comedy and thrills, emerge in a. whirlwind of impetuous, headlong action throughout the colourful scenes of ‘.‘Gunga Diu”. sensational screen drama of British army: life in India, ..which screens to-night, Tuesday and WcdoroUs appeal is. voiced in the resonant nesday at the Regent- Theatre. Its vigcrash of field guns, the dazzlingLglit- . ter- of polished steel, as bayonets anti native blades cross in deadly liapd-to- ' hand fighting, all etched in unforgettable detail against the exotic atmosphere of .tlar mysterious. Orioiitv 'igc ... The KKO Badio feature is adapted - ‘''fe frdin Budyard Kipling’s of the same title, its, cent raj figure being a ghistjj-odri , ■ carrier, who develops from a humble servant into a. heroic fighting man, and makes the supreme sacrifice for the. sake of his comrades. Dominating the adventures of 'Gunga Din are three .sergeants, a strong-arm scrap- ■ ping trio who meet an attack by tribesmen of the murderous cult of Thuggee as a British military patrol advance from a British output. *

The plot included a quest for a secret treasure by the phisti and his pals, a love in which one of the sergeants is enmeshed, and a finale which shows the imprisonment of the four adventurers by the native rebels, terminating with an. assault by the white-'in-fantry on the Thug headquarters', and tlic sacrifice of his life by Gunga. Din. Cary Grant. Victor MoLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks jnr., fill the role of Sergeants Cutter, MaoOiesnoy and Ballantine, with Sain Jaffe east as Gunga Din, and Joan Fontaine as the girl in the drama. Viewed from any angle. “Gunga Din’’ stands out in hold relief as a thrill' melodrama, warranted to warm the blood and stir the pulses of all true lovers of adventurous romance. It is unique in its appeal, carrying the spectators on. waves of stormy action into a land of almost unbelievable extremes, of pageantry and poverty, of gorgeous palaces and gloomy retreats of strange beasts and! gallant warriors; a vista of fancy far removed from the everyday, • commonplace existence of the average dweller in drab civilisation.