REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“TORRID ZONE.” “Torrid Zone,” a bright comedy romance, starring James Cagney, Pat O’Brien and Ann Sheridan, will be shown finally tonight at the Regent Theatre. “CONTRABAND.” In the tradition of the great stage and film success “The Luck of the Navy,” which .played long seasons in the war of 1914-18, is the M-G-M British film) "Contraband,” a rattling good thriller, full of the tang of the sea, and showing tomorrow night at the Regent Theatre. Swiftly the action changes from contraband detection methods by the Royal Navy in the English Channel to pulse-quickening encounters with a nest of Nazi spies, concealed in the night haunts of wartime London, following the outbreak of war in 1939. The actual methods employed in blockade running, as the Navy keeps its vigil in the Channel, are faithfully and thrillingly portrayed., As the story unfolds in the fashionable section of London, scenes in the completely blacked-out streets, hazardous with a torrent of traffic, add a note of authenticity. Tall, handsome Conrad Veidt, as Captain Andersen, skipper of a Danish liner, plays convincingly the part of an adventurous seafarer following a beautiful British girl spy into the coils of underground Nazidom. As the spy Valerie Hobson is fascinatingly piquant.