ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1949, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

FINALLY TONIGHT: ‘‘Ramrod.” Commencing Tomorroio: ‘‘Against Some of Britain’s most closelyguarded secrets are revealed for the first time in “Against the Wind,’’ commencing at the Opera House tomorrow with Jack Beatty, Jack Warner and Simone Signoret in the leading roles. The setting of the story is of the Belgian resistance movement and reveals six characters brought together in 1943 in one of the strangest and least known enterprises of the war. A Catholic priest from Canada, a young Sibot with a passion for explosives, a lovely Belgian girl anxious to forget her past, an elderly Jew rescued from a concentration camp, a patriot who volunteered for his country to turn traitor, and the head of the British secret force responsible for sabotage organised from London in the form of macabre jokes as ingenious as they were injurious to the enemy.

Regent Theatre “On An Island With/, You,” starring Esther Williams, ‘Peter Lawiord. Commencing Tomorrow: “The Shop At Sly Corner,” with Oscar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow.

Oscar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Harrison and Kenneth Griffith are among those with leading roles in “The Shop At Sly Corner.” The picture is a skilfully woven tale of blackmail and murder. It’s one of those in which to divulge the ending is to spoil the entertainment. Miss Pawlow is delightful as the talented daughter of Mr Homolka—to all intents and purposes a benevolent old shopkeeper, but in reality an international “fence.” As the sneaking, blackmailing shop assistant who learns his secret, Kenneth Griffith is so brilliant as to, cause one positively.to hate him by the time the picture has run half-way. But then the whole case merits the highest praise.