REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

‘•STAND UP AND FIGHT.” The outdoor action melodrama, dear to the hearts of film, enthusiasts ever since the days of such early Western stars as William S.. -Hart, William Farmim and Tom Mix, comes into its own again with Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor as its protagonists, in ■'Stand Up and Fight,” which commences its season tonight at the Regent Theatre. Teamed for the first time, Beery and Taylor co-star in a story of Western Maryland in the IfiftO’s, when the railroad and stage coach lines were engaged in a bitter struggle for right-of-way as the population of the United States surged Westward. Semi-historical in theme, "Stand Up and Fight” presents a period and locale new to motion pictures, but presenting all the elements of the best of action Westerns including two bare-knuckle fights between its stars, a saloon brawl, gaol dynamiting. a race between train and stage coach, a covered waggon wreck and a series of gun fights. Florence Rice wins her most important assignment to date as Taylor’s leading lady in the adaptation of the Forbes Parkhill novel, which a notable supporting cast includes such names as Helen Broderick, Charles Bickford, Charley Grapewin, John Qualen, Barton Mac Lane, Robert Gleckler and Clinton Rosemond. Superb featurettes include another of the famous “Passing Parade” series, a brilliant study of Hollywood stars and their hobbies, the latest air mail news, etc. The plans are at Nimmo’s and the theatre.