REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“U-BOAT 29.” The programme tonight will be headed by “U-boat 29,” which provides in vivid actuality a picture of wartime England desperately battling* enemy spies and submarines. Stirringly dramatic as “U-boat 29” is, the new film is as remarkable for its vivid char-acter-studies as it is for its action-tense narrative and breath-takingly beautiful scenic shots. With Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Sebastian Shaw featured, “U-boat 29” is a story of world-wide significance, told, for the most part, in an out-of-the-way part of the world and concerned with only three major characters. Veidt is seen as an enemy submarine commander, who leaves his home port under sealed orders, only to learn that he must make contact with a young schoolmistress on one of the lonely Orkney Islands, to the north of the Scottish coast. She will have for him information of British fleet manoeuvres and he will thus be enabled to score a major victory over his foe. Safely arrived in enemy territory, Veidt locates the girl, and through her is introduced to a renegade British naval officer. Veidt suddenly discovers he has been dealing with British counter-espionage agents. Veidt is superb in the difficult role of enemy agent.