DEL CAMBRE IN "TUNDRA."

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1940, Page 3

DEL CAMBRE IN "TUNDRA."

REGENT THEATRE. "Josette," starring Robert Young, Don Ameche. Simone Simon, Joan Davis and Bert Lahar, will be screened finally tonight at 8 p.m. On the same programme is "Panamint's Bad Man," with Smith Ballew featured and supported by Evelyn Daw. Noah Beery snr. and Stanley Fields. Commencing at a matinee at 2 p.m. on Saturday is an outstanding picture "Tundra." It is laid in the Alhskan wilderness and depicts the strange and thrilling trek of a flying doctor who, when on his way to an isolated plagueridden settlement, crashes in the sea and the plane is wrecked on an iceberg. He escapes and starts out on the long journey back to civilisation. His only companions are two bear cubs that he finds, and these two bundles of fur provide many a laugh with: their antics. Night and day new dangers confront Del Cambre as he toils through dark forests where hordes of wild animals resent the traveller's intrusion on their domain. Wolves howl dismally, the elements rage, starvation menaces him, yet with his two faithful cubs at his heels he persists in his frightful march toward his destined goal. This picture is outstanding for its settings and scenery, which is grand and beautiful. "Private Detective," starring Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson and Maxie Rosenbloom, is the associate feature. The picture is a gay murder mystery filled with plenty of laughs and plenty of thrills. Miss Wyman plays the featured role of a private detective and Dick Foran is seen as a lieutenant detective out to solve the murder before Jane can.