GRAND

Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 10

GRAND

Boris Karloff, that master of the macabre, is always popular in his appearances on the screen in Dunedin, and his latest feature, ‘The Man They . Could Not. Hang/ ,is . proving a good attraction at the Grand. He is superbly cast as ; ,a ; kindly scientist who is tried, convicted,' and hanged for a murder that he, did not commit,' and it is a tribute. Ito his acting that he makes his character-change of the scientist so real when ho iSj restored to life after execution.,- Before his encounter with the law he was a humanitarian and’an altruistic benefactor to humanity, but After his restoration'to life he is transformed into a merciless killer, relentless in his quest ;for.‘revenge. -The .supporting : cast includes Roger Pryor, making his first appearance on the screen for, some considerable time, as the district attorney, Robert Wilcox as a newspaper man who is a little more like the genuine article than the nlajority of the reporters that emanate from Hollywood, and Lorna Gray, in the feminine lead, is as capable as she is attractive. The second feature is a drama entitled ‘Missing Daughters.’

BRILLIANT BRITISH COMEDIES. The well-known British comedian, Will Hay, ably hindered by Moore Marriott and Graham Motfatt, has blundered through many Public Services. In the G.B.D. . attraction, ‘ Ask a Policeman,’ which will be presented at the Grand on Wednesday, the three do their best to ruin the local rural constabulary, and here they make an hilarious digression into what they imagine to be the realm of the supernatural, For the first time in two years Tom has shaved off his moustache; he has also had much of his hair cut off—thus to appear in the title role of his latest G.B.D. picture, ‘ Crackajack/ which will also be seen. Leon M. Lion, one of the villains, and Lilli Palmer, the heroine, on the other hand, have both gained. Leon has a fine set of bushy, beetling eyebrows and a walrus moustache, while Lilli has long plaited hair for her part as the mysterious baroness.