PICTURE FILMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 61, 21 December 1943, Page 6

PICTURE FILMS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. Screening to-night at 8 p.m. A riotout comedy with an all-star cast, “True to the Army,” with Alan Jones. Ann Miller and Jerry Colonna. Commencing to-morrow at 8 p.m. and again on Thursday at 8 p.m.— Bette Davis and James Cagney in tlve outstanding comedy-romance of the season, “The Bride Came C.0.D.” Excellent supports complete this programme.

“The Bride Game C.0.D.” tells thej amusing tale of a spoiled young debutante with more money than sense, and an aviator with just the opposite combination. She is about to elope with a self-infatuated band-ieadev who hires Cagney to fly them to Las Vegas?. But Cagney, desperately :n need of funds in order to keep up payments on his 'plane, decides it will be more profitable to deliver the bride back home to her doting papa. He gets her father on the 'phone and clinches the deal. He will be paid ten dollars per lb, C.0.D., for delivering the would-be bride, unmarried. By a simple ruse to get Bette in the 'plane first, and flies off, leaving the bewildered bridegroom gaping on the ground. Positive that she is being kidnapped by a desperate criminal—an illusion which Cagney does nothing {o shatter—she attempts a parachute jump, and lands safely but painfully in a bed of cactus. Cagney makes a forced landing, and knocks his 'plane out of commission. Then it is a battle of wits, with Bette trying to get back to civilisation and Cagney trying to keep her until he can fix his plane.