ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1948, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Tonight: “The Verdict.” •‘The Verdict,” showing at toe Opera House tonight is a suspenseful drama detailing Scotland Yard s breath-taking search for an elusive murderer. Greenstreet, .as the Yard’s venerable Superintendent Grodman, who loses his job when he contributed such overwhelming circumstantial evidence that an innocent man is wrongly hanged, offers an excellent foil in the picture of the ineffectual, lovable meanderings of Lorre, who portrays Victor Emmric, sensitive, volatile artist, whose solitary habits involve him as one of the likeliest suspects in a murder mystery. Acting on the murder ot _ a wealthy and handsome young mine owner, Scotland Yard and its new Superintendent Buckley are as hardpressed to prevent another miscarriage of justice to find the murderer. With the appearance of Joan Lorring, as Lottie, the appealing little cockney music hall singer whose emotions for the murdered man were well known, the path of justice grows rockier. And before the truly startling denoument an absorbing collection of suspects has been turned up for the delight of all self-styled puzzle experts.

Regent Theatre Tonight: “My Favourite Brunette,’ starring Bog Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Peter Lorre. “My Favourite Brunette” stars the irrepressible Bob Hope masquerading as a tough private detective, armed with gags instead of S a t s - With Hope as a private eye, and costar Dorothy Lamour, as his eyefull, the release is packed with laughs, thrills and suspense. A vicious gang of foreign agents are bent on relieving Hope of the chart, the key to a secret uranium mine. Against their knives, guns, and fists, Bob has only his rapier-like wit which he uses with machine-gun rapidity. While this convulses the audience, Hope's enemies are entirely without a sense of humour. They finally frame him on a murder charge, and the warden at San Quentin is about to give him the works. But Dorothy Lamour arrives in the nick of time with the evidence of Hope’s innocence, and the film ends on a gay note. .