AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 271, 15 December 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“AMBUSH” / ■ “Ambush”, which screens at the Regent Theatre on Saturday and .Moiui'ay, stars Gladys Swarthout and Lloyd Nolan, and includes William Henry, William Frnwley, Ernest Truex, Polly Moran, in the huge supporting east. Caught in the web of a ruthless manhunt! A. hoy and a girl innocent victims of a. calm killer to whom a life means' nothing! Killers, desperate for one last fling at freedom and willing to take any chance to get it. ... Four ultra-modern .bandit's swoop down on a Californian Bank, surprise speetiitprs and guards with a. smoke screen and flee with 93,'-K)0 dollars, leaving a truck a.s the only clue to their identity Gladys Swarthout, the Bank secretary, ami Lloyd Nolan, a truck driver, become.involved in a breathless succession of thrills’and adventure before tin! gang is finally rounded up in a gun-fight with the G-men.

“SILVER ON THE SAGE”

“Hopalong Cassidy” stakes everything on his luck at cards and his a.bility to shoot a strnightor bullet than the next fellow in Paramount’s new outdoorsaction romance, “Silver on the Sage,” which screens Saturday and Monday at the Regent Theatre with"'' William Boyd ca.st as the lamed hero of the range country. Faced with tho murder of a prominent rancher and the theft of “Bar 20’s” prize cattle by a scoundrel with a double identity, Boyd ’fights it out with his enemies at the' gambling tables and on the open range. His spectacular eampaigii~not only brings back the stolen cattle but clears the name of his saddlomnte, “Lucky,” pla'vcd by Russell Hayden, who is accused of the murder. Others in tlie cast, under the direction of Lesley Selander, are George 11 ayes, playing the blustering “Windy,” Stanley Ridges, as the villain, and lovely Ruth Rogers, as the daughter of the murdered randier and sweetheart of the. romantie “ Lucky. ’ ’