REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1941, Page 8

REGENT THEATRE

“BOOM TOWN.” Presenting one of the greatest allstar casts in the history of motion pictures in a story that is built for fast action and thrills, “Boom Town” will be shown tonight at the Regent Theatre for an engagement of. four days. It is one of the most thrilling and spectacular productions to come out of Hollywood. With Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr in stellar roles, “Boom Town” surpasses in star names even that former “Test Pilot” which had Gable, Tracy, Myrna Loy and Lionel Barrymore at the head of the cast. The supporting cast of the picture is as distinguished as its stars, including such well-known names as Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Chill Wills, Marion Martin and Minna Gombell, with lesser roles played by Joe Yule, Horace Murphy, Roy Gordon, Richard Lane, Casey Johnson, Baby Quintanilla and Curt Bois. These players join hands in presenting a thrill-packed human-in-terest story which shows Gable and Tracy in a total of five fights, one of which is a terrific battle between themselves, the frantic fight to blast out a roaring oil well fire, gushers tearing upward with mighty roars, a spouting water geyser, Gable on a bucking mule, a dive into a sea of mud by Gable and Tracy to escape the bullets of two gun fighters, a fight between two dance hall girls, a dramatic hold-up of a load of oil equipment, in addition to comedy by Morgan, Wills and Miss Gombell.