PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 5

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Horror Programme,

The name of Edgar Wallace stands alone. It needs no explanatory appendage. Old and young in town or country know that Wallace is indisputably master of the art of telling crime and mystery stories, known generally as thrillers. The millions of people who enjoy these tales unhesitatingly take up an Edgar Wallace if the title is not known to them; preliminary browsing to sample the contents is quite unnecessary. "The Terror," which opens on Friday at the Paramount Theatre, is one of his best yarns, beginning with a bullion robbery on a road to London, entailing the use of a stupefying gas, and moving to a luxurious guest house in the country, where mysterious events are the more macabre in beautiful surroundings. As in all other Wallace stories, the police side has the stamp of authenticity. Bernard Lee is one very interesting detective somewhat new to films, like the heroine, Linden Travers. Wilfred Lawson and Arthur Wontner have the other big parts. "Dead Men Tell No Tales," the screen adaptation of Francis Beeding's thriller, "Norwich Victims," will be the associate film. It is a thriller that really thrills, . and no person need be ashamed to admit being carried away by its realism. Heading the cast is Emlyn Williams as a pedantic Norwich headmaster at whose school a series of mysterious deaths occur, commencing with the school mistress (Christine Silver), who disappears immediately following the announcement that she had won a big prize in a Continental lottery. Equally mystifying is the sudden disappearance of a young master (Marius Goring) upon whom suspicion has also fallen following his confession to a false alibi and the fact that he was financially embarrassed and seeking the assistance of Friedberg. Whether you consider this bearded hunchback with the limping leg is the villain he looks is not material. What you are concerned with is who plays the part? He is not named in the cast. The short subjects, too, contain an element of horror.