REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“DAD AND DAVE.” “Dad and Dave” will be finally shown tonight. “SUBMARINE D. 1.” Proclaimed as the greatest motion picture ever made with an undersea boat as its subjects and locale,'"Submarine DI” has been booked as the feature attraction at the Regent Theatre, opening tomorrow. It is a Warner Bros, melodrama co-starring Pat O’Brien and George Brent, and featuring Wayne Morris. In the making of it the United States Navy Department threw open its submarine establishments at San Diego, Cocos Coco in the Panama Canal Zone, and Newport. The most modern of submarines, officially called the D-I and also bearing the title of Dolphin, was used in all diving and surface-running scenes. Pat O’Brien and Wayne Morris play a couple of young submarine crewmen who have developed two great inventions —a device to shoot men safely to the ocean’s surface if a ship is sunk, and another- device to raise the U-Boat itself. It is a fastmoving drama of the United States submarine service in which the keynote is action and excitement. The impressive thing about the picture is its absolute realism. Some of the most interesting “shots” of the naval training bases yet screened are shown, and the educational value “of the picture is thus extremely high. The working of the ultra-modern “lung.” which enables the crews of damaged submarines to escape to the surface from depths of 200 feet and more is demonstrated at surprisingly close range. Some of the under-water scenes are truly remarkable. Others are so realistic that it is only by reasoning that the audience realises that it has been watching the movements of models in a tank. The picture is one of the best films of the service ever shown, as much for the authenticity of the settings as for the excellence of the acting. An excellent programme also includes newsreels, a variety short subject. and a fine technicolour travelogue of New Zealand.