REGENT THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 80, 28 December 1935, Page 4

REGENT THEATRE

“The Last Outpost” Heralded as being even better than “Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” the picture now at the Regeift Theatre, “The Last Outpost” has certainly proved to be as stirring as its forerunner; the story is simple enough—how two British officers, fighting for their country in the Great War, become fast friends until the advent of a woman—but around the story is woven a mesh of circumstance which makes the picture extremely absorbing. The cast is headed by Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael, Kathleen Burke, and Colin Tapley. Rains, playing a British intelligence officer stationed in the hot desert of Arabia, insisting upon absolute realism, carried two fifty pound water bags through the desert J sand with the mercury hovering around 120 degrees. The sequence was supposed to show Rains’s arrival at a desert fort after a long trek across the sands. Instead of using make-up to give himself an appearance of exhaustion, Rains actually carried the water bags at a trot for several hundred yards through the burning sands before walking into the camera range. H e was so exhausted he collapsed after the scene. “Barbary Coast.” Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson and Joel McCrea enact a strange and violent triangle against the tumultuous background of life on the “Barbary Coast,” that notorious ineeca of adventurers from every corner of the globe, in Samuel Goldwyn’s colourful production of that title which comes to the Regent Theatre soon.