ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1946, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE.—To-night: “Murder, My Sweet,"

Thrill follows thrill in breathless succession in “Murder, My Sweet,” starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, and Anne Shirley. This gripping story of murder, blackmail and romance, is showing at the Opera House.

Dick Powell has the role of a hard'boiled private detective, Marlowe, who undertakes an apparently routine job of finding the former sweetheart of a big half-witted ex-convict, “Moose” Malloy (Milke Mazurki). Claire Trevor plays a Mrs Grayle, young and be'autiful wife of an elderly collector of jade. Anne Shirley is Ann Grayle, the wealthy old man’s daughter of his first wife. Marlowe’s investigations on behalf of his client, Malloy, lead him to the lair of a quack psychologist and blackmailer, Jules Amthor (Otto Kruger), who has Mrs Grayle in his clutches and wants to get possession of a costly jade necklace as his price of silence. Three murders and a suicide complicate matters for Marlow before he finally clears up the mystery and convinces a somewhat antagonistic police department that he has nothing to clo with the crimes. The unusually strong supporting cast includes Otto Kruger as a suave blackmailer; Mike Mazurki as a dangerous and gigantic ex-convict who wants Powell to find his old sweetheart; Miles Mander as the rich man, and Douglas Walton as the blackmailer’s chief tool.

REGENT THEATRE.— To-night! “Hangover Square,” starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders.

Reaching new heights of frightening mystery and strange emotion, “Hangover Square,” starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders, is showing at the Regent Theatre to-night. For this new super thriller, every,., blood-chilling trick of the trade, plus an horrific score of new ones are used to produce the most utterly unusual and fascinating, edge-of-the-seat film excitement of the year. Laird Cregar is splendid in the role of a serious young composer, whose mind disappears into a subnormal world, and who is transformed into a homicidal maniac, roaming the foggy London streets at night. Linda Darnell lives her role as a cheap music hall singer who is determined to gain fame by using her beauty as a lure to attract the men who can help her. George Sanders is aptly suited for the role of an . ace Scotland Yard psychiaristdetective who, on the fringe of a terrible secret, is unable to warn the one he loves of impending doom.