OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 203, 29 August 1942, Page 3

OPERA HOUSE

A daring plot to obtain plans for an important new defence weapon forms the basis for the laughter and excitement of RKO Radio’s “Call Out the Marines,” the feature film at the Opera House, which brings Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe together again as a pair of battling leathernecks carrying on the feud they started in “What Price Glory” and "The Cock-eyed World.” Reunited after several years, the famous pair re-en-iist in the marines when they find their “civvies” a handicap in winning the smiles of Violet, an entertainer in a waterfront cafe patronised by service men. Their snappy dress blues help out in their campaign. But they aiso serve to involve the boys in unforeseen troubles, for Violet is actually a member of a foreign espionage ring which is seeking the plans of the marines’ new amphibian tank. The two leathernecks find themselves all tangled up with the plot. The uproarious finish of the film features one of the funniest chase scenes in years. The stars are ideally cast in the especially-written story, Binnie Barnes, Paul Kelly, Robert Smith, Dorothy Lovett and Franklin Pangborn head” the featured cast. The supporting programme includes “With the N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East” and “The Defence of Port Moresby,” [which is now in the news.