REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

"MIDNIGHT INTRUDER,” AND "UNDER SUSPICION.” A thunderstorm starts off the outlandish goings-on in "Midnight Intruder," the film screening at the Regent Theatre to-day, wherein the destiny of a penniless adventurer is turned inside out, and in rapid succession he becomes an imposter, a detective, a lover and a writer. In this rollicking Universal comedy-mystery Louis Hayward, as a well-bred vagabond, breaks into a mansion to evade a storm. His hiding place is discovered by servants and the fun begins when the butler says to him: “Welcome home, Sir. Hayward poses as the mansion owner’s son, and gets away with it—until he meets the wife of the man he is impersonating! He falls in love with Barbara Read, but complications arise when he suspects her father of being a murderer. Besides Hayward and Miss Read, the cast includes J. C. Nugent, Robert Greig, Eric Linden and Sheila Bromley. Midnight Intruder" is gloriously romantic and dramatic entertainment Mystery that will baffle the most Sherlockian solvers of detective stories, provides the thrilling action and drama for Jack Holt’s new Columbia picture, "Under Suspicion,” on the same programme. Adapted for the screen from a magazine story by that top-fiight concocter of murder mystery yarns, Philip Wylie, it is a stirring story of an assassination plot aimed at a wealthy motor-car magnate because he suddenly turns philanthropic and decides to give his plant away to his employees. Once again Jack Holt displays characteristic good judgment in selecting Katherine DeMille, dark screen beauty, as his feminine lead. Supporting this popular pair in their featured roles is a hand-picked cast, including Rosalind Keith, Granville Bates, Luis Alberni, Morgan Wallace; Esther Muir Purnell Pratt and others.