KING’S THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 15

KING’S THEATRE

The enthralling story of “21 Days Together," retained lor another week at the Kings Theatre, can be told quickly, but the way the film itself tells it gives it added interest.

There is a debonair young ne’er-do-well and his brother, a judge-to-be; and there is the ne'er-do-well’s girl, Wanda (Vivien Leigh). As the ne’er-do-well, Laurence Olivier plays his part at first with a gay abandon which, so to speak, seis the key for Ute tension of the later scenes. He and his girl are ns happy as can be, celebrating their happiness on five shillings raised at the pawnbroker’s shop; happy, that is, till they find a blackmailer pawing over the girl’s past, struggling, being killed by accident, though no one would believe that.

Their little world is shattered by fear, and the lawyer brother, partly sorry for the youngsters, even more sorry for him self, tries to cover up the crime. But litis involves the trial for murder of alt innocent little tramp, a “decayed clergyman,” who has robbed the body nml. in his own words, “lost his self-respect.”

The young man will not accept his brother's offer of money to got out ot the country; hut lie does accept th, law's delay of 21 days, and trios to liv o out all his happiness with Waiula ni that short three weeks, liow the happy ending emnes. bringing release for pent’ up emotions —ami doing it as naturally ns could lie —Is otto of the secrets of Basil Detin’s direction : he docs it magnificently.