At Leeston

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 90, 14 November 1939, Page 5

At Leeston

! "THE PERFECT SPECIMEN" "The Perfect Specimen," a com-edy-drama starring the popular Errol Flynn and the no less liked Joan Blondell, will be screened at the Leeston Theatre on Saturday. This production has been rated by pre-view critics as among the very best laugh-and-thrill photoplays of the year. It is said to show that Flynn, in addition to his qualities as a swash-buckling fighter with ancient weapons is also a first-class battler with the gloved fists in the roped arena—a new locale for the handsome Irishman. An amusing idea actuates the story of "The Perfect Specimen." An immensely wealthy grandmother, with ideas of her own about eugenics and environment thinks that Errol, her descendant, should be brought up all his life on her estate and trained to be what the title of the movie indicates. Extraordinarily fine performances from Flynn and Blondell make the picture an outstanding comedy and the film has a supporting cast that reads like a roster of Hollywood great. May Robson, grand old lady of comedy, is perfect as the peppery old grandmother who thinks she can rule with money. Edward Everett Horton makes every gesture convey a world of laughs, and Beverly Roberts and Dick Foran carry on a subsidiary romance to that of Flynn and Miss Blondell. Of Hugh Herbert it need only be said that he's in the picture and that he plays a poet! |