MAJESTIC THEATRE

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 86, 11 September 1953, Page 7

MAJESTIC THEATRE

Tomorrow's big picture on both matinee and evening programmes is "An American in Paris," the Technicolor MGM musical which won the Academy award for the best film of 1951, starring Gene Kelly and Oscar Levant. On Wednesday 16th, Yvonne de Carlo plays a New Orleans dance hall siren in "Scarlet Angel," an action story of the colourful period following the Civil War in New Orleans and 'Frisco, with Rock Hudson as the co-star. "Submarine Command," showing on Thursday 17th, stars William Holden and Nancy Olson in a tense tale of submarine warfare in the Korean area, in which a disgraced "sub" skipper redeems himself. The dpuble features for Friday next, 18th, are "The Flying Missile," in which Glenn Ford and Viveca Lindfors star in a tale of a super-weapon plus romance, and "High Venture," a Technicolor saga starring John Payne, Arleen Whelan and Dennis O'Keefe in the story of a wagon train fighting its way to a new life in California. For matinee and evening on Saturday 19th, London Films present "The Elusive Pimpernel," in which David Niven stars as the debonair Sir Percy Blakeney, with lovely Margaret Leighton as Lady Blake- , ney. This Technicolor version of Baroness Orczy's famous best-seller should be a big attraction.