AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 249, 20 October 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“THE CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY” of a Nazi Spy.” starving Edward G. Robinson, will bo screened Saturday and Monday at the Regent Theatre. It is> il sensational expose of the direct military and nav;il espionage of Nazi agents in the I'nited States as brought out in the recent trials in New York, Eos Angeles and! the Panama Canal zone. Leon (!. Ttirrou, former G-Man, acted as technical adviser on the Warner Bros, production. Anntole -Litvak directed, with a. huge east which includes, besides Robinson, Paul Lukas, Francis Lederer, Lya Lys, Dorothy Tree, Henry O’Neill, George •Sanders, Henry Victor, Grace Stafford. and hundreds of others. Robinson plays the G J Man who breaks the spy ring and brings four of its members to trial and conviction. Lukas portrays the doctor who liendis the ring; Lederer is the bungling Nazi informer; and Lya Lys is the exotic beauty who uses her feminine wiles to get information for the Nazis. “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” goes beyond the mere expo.se of a small spy ring. It shows the open and Ha grant campaign that Hitler supporters are waging in the U.S.A. against the nation’s democratic institutions. And it shows that the spy menace is still very great, and that IV I- every spy brought to justice duiiim- the recent trials in New York, Los Angeles and the Panama Canal zone; there are a hundred still operating at large. T(i quote Mr. Turrou, the recent spy trials “barely scratched the surface.”