"TRADE WINDS."
Starring Fredric March and a Joan Bennett w,th a difference. Walter Wanders brilliant comoh-melodrama. -Trade Winds.will be ehown for the first time m Auckland to-morrow at the Civic Iheaire. The difference with Min- Bo* nett is that this time she appears as a brunette: otherwise she U just the same great actress as she altrayn was In the development of the plot Kav Kerrigan (Mum Bennett) riinni* a millionaire whom she believe responsible for i the suicide of her siste? «".,<» .-c.j.ps l,r diving off ,h e pra , bri.leo at San Fran--1 cisi-o. and i< leporte.i di.nvnf.i. lister, however, eviden<e accumulate* i,-, s ! :o ir that she was not dro.vnH. and a piivate rtetwtire f&fareh) is amiened to fis,.l her. . Hi« search Lakes him slobe-trottine -niih a venpeante. The h ene« chajige Mpi4lr from Honolulu to Japan. It. China. 1o Indo-China and to Singapore, as a plot featiirine thrflle and in plrnly is unfolded. 'Trade Winds" is another triumph for Wnnaer. It is an outstandin: to '•Blockade" , and '-Suez." liis two ]awt prnduction*. There ate severs] infrertine features in the !i<=» of crf-litp. Tay Onrnett wrote t! e (itorr. .is well at dir*ctins the film. The screen p'ar w.it -n-ritlcn bv Frank R. Adams. Alan Campbell and the n"te ( j American pootrfvs and writeT. Ilnrothy Parker. Prominent ca*l membrrs are Ralph Bc"!a:.iv, Ann Thomas Mitche'l. Robert EllJr»U and c " !- ney Blsckner. Bellamy pt or ides m:j-h '■'. the comedy in his roie s= the sober. #:::- ous, rather pilly detective.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 12
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