“For Freedom” at Liberty

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23052, 21 June 1940, Page 5

“For Freedom” at Liberty

A double-feature programme of invest to everyone will be shown at the Liberty this week. “For and “Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday are the films. It is September, 1938, at the opening of “For Freedom.” In the private theatre of a news-reel company the Four Power Conference at Munich is being shown on the screen. The chief (Will Fyffe) and his son Steve are waiting for an important 8.8.C. announcement. The chief, certain of war, has prepared a film, “Shadow Over Europe.” Steve believes that there will be peace and tries to persuade his father to make a film of “Human Achievement.” The success of the Munich conference comes through and the chief decides to proceed with his son’s idea. He instructs his - European and American representatives to obtain films of their countries’ social' and cultural profess. The day the foreign representatives arrive with their pictures Hitler enters Czechoslovakia. The chief brings cut “The Shadow Over Europe” film again. Steve resigns.

Hitler invades Poland and Britain declares war. The Germail and Russian news-reel representatives return to their countries. After the first few months of war comes the dramatic news of the pocket battleship the Graf Spee being sighted by three ships of the Navy. The River Plate battle is shown in the film. “Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday” introduces again the Scotland Yard thriller film. Gordon Harker is again starred as the stamp-saving detective, while Alastair Sim plays his grumbling but ungrudging assistant, Sergeant Bingham. Of course, “Inspector Hornleigh. on Holiday” is the story of a busman’s holiday, with the detective and his aide “enjoying” a typical rainy British week at a seaside resort. One of their fellow boarders, a captain in the Royal Navy, disappears one dismal evening, to be found next morning ■ burned and crushed to death in the wreckage of his roadster at the foot of a cliff, , Inspector Hornleigh disagrees with the local police verdict of suicide and the clue-chase begins.