REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

"THE GOLDEN FLEECING." The current programme at the Regent Theatre, headed by "The Golden Fleecing." starring Lew Ayres and Rita Johnson, will be finally shown tonight "THE SEA HAWK." The "Sea Hawk." which will be shown tomorrow night at the Regent Theatre is due for a tremendous success, not. only for its historic parallels —it recalls the birth of the British Naw in answer to the menace of the Spanish Armada at a time when Spain had Napoleonic dreams of European conquest--but because of the splendid acting of Errol Flynn as Captain Thorpe, one of Elizabeth s disowned but privately abetted privateers. Caplain Thorpe has the rugged courtiership and independence to win the heart of the Warrior Queen, but it is as captain of the Albatross, scourge of Spanish galleys, that ho shines. The sea fights are thrillingly real, the scenes below decks, where the chained galley slaves sweat in filth in the halfdark, the ambush in the sticky tropica! heat of the Panama forests, even the treachery in the English Court have such fierce actuality that the i audience is carried away. England I then, as now. was faced with invasion. ' and the spirit that responds in the Sea I Hawk to the situation is shown in every phase of a long film that winks ■by all too quickly. Brenda Marshall, i captured from a Spanish ship on her ; way to Elizabeth's Court, wins the ! hero's fiery heart, and Claude Rains. Flora Robson. Donald Crisp. Alan 5 Hale. William Lundigan, Henry Dan- : iell. and Una O'Connor are included in the strong supporting cast. There are excellent supports.