STATE THEATRE
“STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR.” A highly-imaginative conceptioii of the possibilities for injustice in trial by jury upon circumstantial evidence will be presented tonight in “Stranger on the Third Floor.” The stranger is Peter Lorre, and the chief witness is John McGuire, whose fiancee, Margaret Tallichet, is so upset by the convicted prisoner's' protests of innocence that she decides the wedding must be off. Worried, the witness has a nightmare—after chasing a mysterious stranger fruitlessly downstairs—in which he links a series of actual happenings at his lodgings within the past few days into a circumstantial chain which would hang him, provided that his heated remarks to a detested snoring fellow-lodger were recollected, and that the lodger had been murdered. Waking, he listens for the hated snore next door, and when all is silence, he is driven to go in and make sure that all is well. “Wildcat Bus,” the associate film, is a tale of crooks who try to wreck the reputation of a popular line of buses by arranging smash-ups with regularity.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1941, Page 8
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175STATE THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1941, Page 8
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