REGENT THEATRE
“STRONGER THAN DESIRE.” i Virginia Bruce and Walter Pidgeon in their second appearance as a romantic team score again in "Stronger Than Desire,” melodramatic romance of New York society which will be shown at the Regent Theatre tonight. The story is a combination of happy married life, legal intrigue, a blackmail plot growing out of a flirtation, and a murder mystery with a photographic clue that provides something new in the unravelling of crime puzzles. Pidgeon plays a prosperous lawyer whose wife suspects him of a flirtation and retaliates with one of her own. to discover that she has been playing into the hands of a blackmailer who threatens to compromise her. In a struggle over her letters he strikes her. She instinctively picks up a revolver on his desk, shoots him. and flees, to undergo inward torture while his wife goes to trial for murder, and her husband struggles to save her from the chair. The solution to The crime and clearing of the situation comes in .a dramatic episode in the courtroom after the husband has found the clue which points to his own wife, then'the second clue which clears both women.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1940, Page 2
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196REGENT THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1940, Page 2
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