REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“TROUBLE BREWING.” There’s “Trouble Brewing” for “detective” Formby, and a real treat of hearty laughter in store for patrons of the Regent Theatre tonight when George’s latest film will be presented. Produced by Jack Kitchin and directed by Anthony Kimmons, “Trouble Brewing” is unanimously acclaimed his funniest film, eclipsing even that previous outstanding success, “It’s in the Air.” This time George is cast as a compositor whose burning ambition is to become a crime investigator. Aided and abetted by Googie Withers and Gus McNaughton, he succeeds in running to earth a gang of counterfeiters whose exploits have been baffling the police. Before George achieves his triumph, however, he and his fellow-amateur criminologists go through a series of screamingly funny misadventures in pursuit of their quarry. These take them in turn to a racecourse; an all-in wrestling match, in which George surprisingly proves the victor against a bearded champion of the art, a party given by a famous opera singer, in which George is called upon to rescue an incriminating piece of paper from a most embarrassing hiding place; and finally they find themselves in a brewery, the headquarters of the gang of forgers, in which a never-to-be-forgotten battle ensues. In a climax fraught with thrills and amusement George manages to trap the counterfeiters in a huge vat full of beer, the men becoming gloriously drunk before they are finally carried off by* the police. In between all their "troubles,” George finds time and place to sing three-catchy comical songs, “I Can Tell It By My Horoscope,” “Hitting the High Spots,” and “Fanlight Fanny.” Also on the programme is a special 33 minute short subject of great interest, showing Britain’s preparedness for war, and the defence of her shores.