STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1942, Page 6

STATE THEATRE

I “THE GHOST TRAIN.” R “The Ghost Train” will be finally | shown tonight. • “CONFIRM OR DENY.” Played against a background of bomb-wrecked London in September, 1940, “Confirm or Deny,” which will be ; shown at the State Theatre tomorrow E night, is a thrill-packed story of a | newspaperman who gives up the scoop B of a lifetime for the love of a girl. I “Confirm or Deny” is an exciting film i with a theme sternly true. It revolves I round the question the world asks: “Did the Nazis set out to invade England and, if so, why did they fail?” Don Ameche, more happily cast than he Ihas been in several gaily-coloured mu-' sicals, is the_ London correspondent 'of an American paper. Joan Bennett’s role is a Government teletypist who remains at her post under the most shattering circumstances, and Roddy McDowell the likable child of “How Green was My Valley,” is the boy who died in a raid.t But there are other great stars in the film—Londoners who took it on the chin in those grim days of 1940. One sees them in the shelters, laughing and joking, singing and still laughing—but never grumbling. Then one sees them wending their way through debris that once formed offices, dwellings, monuments; and still they said “Thumbs up” and “Chins up.” | And still they smile. Meanwhile, Hit- ■ ler had arrived at Calais to superintend i the invasion of England. But 4he in- : vasion did not take place. London ! still laughed and the earth in which ‘ they buried the little roof spotter was I* free earth, /