MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5290, 31 December 1946, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT ■ Filmgoers are in for real fun when they meet Frarik Randle in Butcher Empire Films' outstanding musical comedy, "Home Sweet Home," based on the popular song- of that title. For many years now Randle has been the top comedian in Britain, but "Home Sweet Home" is the first film to be released here. A riotous farce, full of bright gags and fast action, the picture also introduces such preeminent artists as Rawicz and .Landauer, world's greatest dufo-pianists, and Helen Hill, the charming .soprano of Butcher' s "For You A'lone." There have heen many so-callied ganster pictures produced by Hollywood studios, but never such an authentic mural of the lawless days of the early thir'ties as "Crime, Inc.," also showing at night session. The pictuie, based on the real-life experiences of Martin Mooney, noted crime reporter who served a jail term for refusing to 'divulge the sources of his information, was produced by the author himself, marking the first time a film producer has pictured himself on the sereen. There is a tone of realitythrough every foot of the hig"h-tension melodrama, obviously due to the writerproducer's profound knowledge of his subject.