MAJESTIC THEATRE

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 57, 18 February 1953, Page 6

MAJESTIC THEATRE

Following Harold Lloyd in his sup-er-hilarious film "Movie Crazy ? at the Majestic tonight, the bill of fare for Friday next, February 20th. is beaded by Warner Eros., drama "Now Barabbas was a Robber." Stars are Richard Greene, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Kathleen Harrison and Ronald Howard. On Saturday next Rudyard Kipling's famous story "Soldiers Three'r eomes to life in M-G-M's. hilarious adventure picture version, a mixture of tbrills and comedy in which the leading parts are taken by Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton and Greta Gynt, who lives up to her sobriquet of The Blonde Bombshell. Picture patrons at Te Rangiita will »be able to see "Soldiers Three" tomortow night, Thursday, February 19th. For Monday next February 23rd. the Majestic presents "Short Grass" a typically tense Western story set in the early days of New Mexico, in wrhich Rod Cameron as Steve Lewellyn out-fights the land-grab-bing Fenton Gang and wins the wild fnontier beauty Sharon Lynch, played by Cathy Downs. For Wednesday, February 25th. the highlight is J. Arthur Rank's success "Morning Departure," a drama of the British submarine service produced with documentary fidelity, and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Lana Morris. H.MJ3. Trojan, the submarine of the picture, was actually H.M.S. Tiptoe of the Second Submarine Flotilla, Royal Navy, which was named per«sonally by Winston Churchill. The jsitory of twrelve men against the sea should appeal to all.