ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1949, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

“Acfainst The Wind.” Some of Britain’s most closelyguarded secrets are revealed for the first time in “Against the Wind,’’ showing at the Opera House tonight 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 Scot 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 iokes as ingenious as they were injurious to the enemy. Regent Theatre COMMENCING TOMORROW: "The Shop At Slv Corner,” with Oscar Homolka, Derek Farr, M'uriel Pavlow. Oscar Homolka, Derek Farr. Muriel Harrison and Kenneth Griffith are among those with leading roles in “The Shoo 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 Pavlow is delightful as the talented daughter of Mr Homolka—to all intents and purposes a benevolent old shopkeeper, but in realitv 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.