RIVOLI THEATRE,

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1940, Page 15

RIVOLI THEATRE,

Tuesday's Programme,

The barren mountain ranges of India's north-western frontier is the rugged background against which unfolds the spectacular story of R.K.0.-Radio's "Gunga Din," picturisation of Rudyard Kipling's beloved ballad of the same name, which opens on Tuesday at the Rivoli Theatre. With Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, jun., in the stellar roles, this epic of India is reminiscent of the period when England struggled to crush a revolt of outlawed thugs who have resumed their weird religious practices of murder and torture. California's High Sierras in the vicinity of Mt. Whitney served as the location where "Gunga Din" was filmed. There stupendous sets were erected and peopled with more than a thousand players for the battle scenes and other tumultuous action of the stirring film spectacle. Dramatising his personal experiences as a crime reporter for metropolitan newspapers for which he covered police courts, underworld raids, inside stories on gambling, racketeering and murder, Roy Chanslor wrote me screenplay for Universal's new mystery film, "One Hour to Live," which will be the associate film. The picture features Charles Bickford gs the detective who fights crooks with their own tactics, Doris Nolan as the Broadway beauty innocently involved in a puzzling murder case, and John Litel as a composite of dangerous underworld dictators who try to "buy" protection for their crimes. Paul Guilfoyle has the role of a gangland executioner.