STATE THEATRE
“SUNDOWN” SEASON EXTENDED The demand to see “Sundown” has been so great that the management has found it necessary to extend the season till Tuesday night. The State Theatre was packed, out on Saturday night. “Sundown” is a drama of East Africa; not a film of damp jungle filled with the sinister throb of drums, but of the veldt, the giraffe and elephant country. It is the country, too, ( of widely-spaced British posts, where one sagacious commissioner, an assistant, and a platoon of native police, will govern numberless savages. In peace there is “miles and miles of nothing to do,” but war comes to the post that is the locale of “Sundown,” the Axis mysteriously providing the natives with large quantities of modern small arms in the hope of starting a prairie fire of insurrection. “Sundown has something of the spirit of “Bengal Lancer,” of “Sanders of the River,” and of “Trader Horn.” Gene Tierney as the woman owner of a network of trading stores is good. Bruce Cabot is capable in the leading male part. George Sanders is a military officer, and Joseph Calleia is a friendly Italian. It is a most thrilling adventure picture leading to a surprising and impressive climax.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1942, Page 6
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205STATE THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1942, Page 6
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