THE REGENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1938, Page 2

THE REGENT

“THEY WON’T FORGET.” The sensational movie, “They Won’t Forget,” will be shown tonight at the Regent Theatre. “They Won’t Forget” is the film version of “Death In the Deep South,” a novel by Ward Greene that is second in current interest overseas only to “Gone With the Wind,” and is far more controversial. There has been endless debate ever since “They Won’t Forget” was previewed, and it will probably continue, according to all indications. It presents the argument that a politically ambitious district attorney, by building up a chain of circumstantial evidence — and at the same time craftily stirring anti-sectional hatred —can send to death a perfectly innocent man accused of murder. “In “They Won’t Forget,” Claude Rains is the villainous prosecutor. Edward Norris is his victim, a young Northern, U.S.A., school teacher. Gloria Dickson, a new film girl drafted from a U.S.A. Government Theatre Project stage play, is the victim’s wife; Lana Turner, a 17-year-old high school girl, is the one that is murdered; Otto Kruger, of stage and screen fame, is the Northern lawyer that tries to save Norris, and a splendid additional cast completes the roster. It is said to be a real thriller. Mervyn Leßoy directed as well as produced this photoplay, from a screen version adapted by Aben Kandel and Robert Rossen.