BORIS KARLOFF PICTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1940, Page 3

BORIS KARLOFF PICTURE.

REGENT THEATRE TO-MORROW. Showing finally at the Regent Theatre to-night at 7.45 p.m., with Warren Hull, Anne Nagel and Henry Mollison, is "A Bride for Henry." Screening with this is James Oliver Curwood's adventure picture "Call of the Yukon," starring Richard Arlen and Beverly Roberts. Commencing to-morrow is Boris Karlou in "The Man With Nine Lives." This is an extraordinary, exciting melodrama built upon a solid foundation of scientific fact, so that although the theme seems«too . weird to be true it is carried out so well that one believes it could actually happen. Boris Karloff is outstanding as an elderly doctor who has disappeared in a cloud of mystery and is discovered by a young doctor, Roger Pryor, and his fiancee, Jo Ann Sayers, embedded in ice on an island, together with four other men, still alive, saved by the inhalation of a poisonous drug. Karloff is saved by Pryor and then m a mania of scientific sacnfice Karlott murders the other men. Pryor ancl Jo Ann are saved by the police. The climax is one which for sheer suspense has rarely been equalled on the screen. The associate feature. "Kid Nightmgale, features John Payne and Jane Wyman in a Warner Bros. comedy of the prize ring. The story is about a waiter with operatic aspirations who gets side-track-ed into prize fighting as a career. The fight scenes are the real thing. In this uproariously funny production is an outstanding cast of comedians which includes Waiter Catlett and Ed Brophy. It is seldom that picture patrons can be offered such entertainment as is to be found in this double bill at the Regent Theatre.