STATE THEATRE
“NEUTRAL PORT.” “Neutral Port,” which will be shown tonight at the State Theatre with Will Fyffe excels himself as the prosy, pugnacious Captain Ferguson, always ready for any sly game which will give him a ship to replace his treasured tub. His efforts seemed to be doomed to failure, for whenever he captures a ship, and he does so more than once, the Nazis promptly torpedo him and he comes back to port disgruntled. The picture begins with the sinking of Captain Ferguson’s beloved ship the “Annie Louise” on her way to the neutral port of Esperanto on the first day of war. Enraged, , the fiery old skipper goes to the British Consul in the port, brilliantly portrayed by Leslie Banks, and tells him that he believes in “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” Bent on revenge he plans to capture the German vessel Scharndorf. The love interest is well taken care of by Phyllis Calvert, as Bank’s daughter, and Hugh McDermott as a young Consular official who at first funks sabotaging the supply ship.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19411202.2.66
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1941, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
182STATE THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1941, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in