AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 251, 27 October 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“MYSTERY HOUSE” “Alystcry House” starring Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan, will be screened to-night and) Saturday at the Regent Theatre. A piece of wire A man’s wig \ rifled safe Three clues, three murders, three times the thrills of any other mystery hit in Warner Bros, baffling new chiller! ••.Mystery House” tells the story •of bow a wealthy man was slain at his remote hunting lodge, and how clever Detective Lance O’Leary found the killer. Dick Purcell plays the sleuth 'in this delodrama. Ann. Sheridan plays a lovely nurse who suspects a crime has been committed and brings the detective to the lodge to clear up the mystery.

“PUBLIC COAYBOY NO, 1 “Public Cowboy No. 1” which screens at the Itegeijt Theatre tonight and Saturday, features Gene Autry. Smiley Burnette, Ann ljlitherIV< rd. and William Farnum. The screen’s most popular star of the saddle rides along the trail of thrills in his grandest adventure of the West. Gene Autry is the champion of the old-time Sheriffs in the picture. He defends their means of apprehending cattle rustlers, in direct opposition to the local public opinion, moulded by lovely Helen A!organ, the editress of the newspaper. Through her influence ;v hand of city slicker detective’s are imported to solve the cattle rustling mystery, and Sheriff, Gone and Smiley Burnette are all'deposed igneminously. But they don’t stay down for long. Autry, with the aid of Barnette, ecaceivos an ingenious method of beating the rustlers at their e.wn game, and the plot is brought to a skilful and entertaining climax. “THE CITADEL” ' “The Citadel” which screens at tho Regent Theatre next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday ami stars Robert Donat, and Rosalind Russell, is Met-fo-Goldwyn-Alayer’s glorious production of Dr. . ,T. Cronin’s famous story. The printed pages brought tears and laughter, drama and romance to many, millions, but now they como alive—and the story el the ! young doctor forced to choose between the lure of- luxury, the tomptaioioim ol s.iitolv ami tin. of

ideals becomes a liun'iaii UH’fiiinii^ doeunieut a magnificent expCii---eneo long in remember! In its plot “Tile Citadel" is the story of a mail who sets out till'd by the highest ideals of the medical profession only to tall to the blight of easy money. Awakened to. and ' appalled* by the moral depths to which he has lnlleni ho lights again to win lan k-Iris own selfrespect, and oil the way blazes a track for all the world to see aniP’lor allMho healers of the work! to follow v Tho medical revelations are Imt incidental too'the story, which is studded with thrilling emotional and adventurous climaxes of the convincing kind; that keep the spectators keyed up and interested. Orammffl .with chanfeter studies, the film also provides plenty of bright comedy. Altogether “Tho Citadel” makes great- entertainment a- - part from any other consideration. J.u short, it is one of those rare epochal pictures t<> have missed which will entail ignorance on a —subject" likely to loom large in the current topics of tho day for many years to come.