DE LUXE THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 109, 1 February 1941, Page 15

DE LUXE THEATRE

The “Dead End” Kids need no introduction to present-day film audiences. Their particular line of business —youthful wisecracking, and “hard-boiled” behaviour—has been the delight of thousands of people, and their latest film, “You’re Not So Tough,” now screening at the De Luxe Theatre, carries on the tradition in fine style.

This time the gang, led as usual by Billy Halop, is arrested for vagrancy. Its members get into the hands of a sympathetic sheriff who tells them of a ranch owned by a woman noted for her charity and for the good wages she pays her hands, and they decide to ask her for employment. When Halop hears that this woman has been looking for her son for the last 15 years, he decides to “pull a fast one” and pretends that he is that son. He is immediately taken in, housed, fed and for the first time in his life —loved. There is one person, however, apart from the sheriff, who does not believe him, and this is the girl who is working on the farm (Nan Grey). She warns Halop to be careful. So does the sheriff, who threatens to tell the truth, but by this time the boys have realized the essential goodness of the woman on the ranch, and plead with him not to shatter her illusions of happiness. In the meantime, a way to repay some of her kindness is shown Halop. A trucking concern refuses to take the farm goods to market, and boycotts the woman because they say she is undermining the workers by paying them such high wages. Halop manages to outwit the truckmen and to set the business on a working basis, but he eventually comes to realize that he has not been as good an actor as he thought. As is usual with the “Dead End” films, there is plenty of fast action and fast talk, and plenty of fun. , The associate film, “Three Men From Texas,” is another "Hopalong” Cassidy film with Bill Boyd once more playing the part of “Hopalong.” It gallops along at the usual breakneck pace of the Clarence Mulford stories, with “Hopalong’’ putting sand in the machinery of notorious laud-grabbers in California's spacious days. TUDOR THEATRE Revealing the amazing experiences of a 'beautiful wife with the husband she thought she knew, “The Man I Married,” transferred to the Tudor Theatre, is a new and different kind of picture. Joan Bennett plays the wife of Francis Lederer, while Lloyd Nolan is an American correspondent. Anna Steu has a highly dramatic role worthy of her talent. Others prominently featured in the strong cast are Otto Kruger, Maria Ouspenskaya, Ludwig Stossci, and Johnny Russell. An unusual and entertaining comedy starring Lynn Roberts, Ted North, Edgar Kennedy and Robert Armstrong, “The Bride Wore Crutchers” is the associate featurelength attraction. The action takes place principally against newspaper and gangland backgrounds, and involves a stupid cub reporter who tries to solve a holdup with the aid of his crime-chasing sweetheart, a pretty newspaper woman.