REGENT THEATRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 10

REGENT THEATRE.

"THE MAN WITH N1NE LIVES." Screening at 8 p.m. to-night at the Regent Theatre, New Plymouth, is Boris Karloff 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, erribedded 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 in a mania of scientific sacrifice Karloff murders the other men. Pryor and 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 Nightingale," . features John Payne and Jane Wyman in a Warner Eros, comedy of the prize ring. The story is about a waiter with operatic- aspirations who get sidctracked 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 seldorri that picture patrons can be offered such entertainmant as is to be found in this double bill at the Regent Theatre.