REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

MIDNIGHT INTRUDER,” AM) “UNDER SUSPICION.” A thunderstorm starts off the outlandish goings-on in “Midnight Intruder,” the lilm concluding at the Regent Theatre to-day, wherein the destiny o£ a penniless adventurer is turned inside out, and in rapid succession he becomes an imposter, a detective, a lover and a writer. Besides Louis Hayward and Barbara 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.

“Daredevil Drivers.”

There was no question about who would direct “The Daredevil Drivers” for Warner Bros.’, the melodrama that comes to the Regent Theatre tomorrow. The film involves the automobile insurance racket and necessitated many action shots of cars careening around corners, smashups, men flying off motor-cycles and racing car sequences. Breezy Eason is “tops” as an action director. Starting 30 years ago as director of cowboy pictures, he is responsible for many of the thrilling rides your cowboy heroes took. When William S. Hart galloped down a mountain at break-neck speed— Breezy Eason was behind the camera, seeing that a shot would be taken that would thrill movie fans. He made Tom Mix’s exciting adventures more exciting. He drilled the charioteers in “Ben Hur” and finally produced one of the most thrilling action spectacles of all time in the chariot race, still remembered after all these years. “The Daredevil Drivers” costars Dick Purcell and Beverley Roberts for the first time. Heather Wright, the brilliant young Wellington dancer, who has been in Australia for some time, will be seen in several fine numbers on the Regent stage tomorrow night.