AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 267, 4 December 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

•■VVf'j- 1 . ■•KENTUCKY” . - With i Ik; glorious tradition of Iho •.Blue Brass country as its background jukl llit; Imucd Kentucky Dci'liy as its .spectacular climax, ” Kent uoky,” ft ,20'Lli. ' Century-Fox. production which has been photographed in. brilliant Tech nice I our, opens Tuesday at Iho Regent Theatre with ho re tin Young anil .Richard (Keene heading a lino ■cast. Alucli of •‘.Kentucky" was lilinod on Jocalion in |hei heart ol the Blue Blass slate, and the picture is a revelation of the luxuriant beauty of this land where thoroughbreds roam the meadows behind white fences. Al.oro'over, in bringing out the depth and brilliance of the country, (ho jewelled lines of the jockey’s silks, the crowds and the Derby itself, Tcohuieolour was never used to heller advantage. In fact, after seeing “Kentucky” through the lens of the Teohnieolotir camera, it is didieult l<> imagine bow the lilm could! possibly have been made in any other way. Nothing but colour ■ could do justice' to such ■ a setting, and few stories could so richly deserve the considerably more expensive technique of colour photography. The outbreak of the Civil War forms what might almost, he termed a prologue to the story; it establishes a, feud between the houses of Dillon and Goodwin which continues through all the years that follow, up to the present time. Then Jack Dillon, played hy Richard (Jreeue, returns from an eight-year stay in Kngland and (alls m love with Sally Goodwin (.Loretta Young). Shortly after his return, Jack gets into a quarrel with Ji is father *4ui(l leaves home; —H-e looks lor a job at the Goodwin stables as a. trainer and, since they don’t know lie’s a Dillon, gets it. The romance between Sally and Jack starts that day. Sally’s father dies suddenly and she and her uncle Peter (Walter Brennan) are forced to sell everything at auction, keeping only , Sally’s favourite horse. And then, to make their misfortune complete, that animal is ruined for racing when Sally has to ride him through a thunderstorm to wave her mother’s lite. One day, by mere chance, a note is discovered in which Good,win had won a wager from Dillon, allowing him the pick of any two-year-ohl in the Dillon .stable. The horse is selected and entered in the Kentucky Derby, with the Dillon entry a. favourite in a hold of great horses. The Derby itself, with a hundred thousand shouting spectators supplies the great dramatic climax to the 111ni.