AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 13 February 1940, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE MELVYN DOUGLAS IN “TELL NO TALES.” “Tell No Tales," which commences to-day at the Resent Theatre, is a remarkable production in many ways. To classify it is difficult. The picture is different. Drama predominates, but it- is all-embracing entertainment running the gamut of emotion-stirring situations and defying routine formula. It is a .scrips of stories not unlike those that have come from the pen of the famous O. Henry, with al. the elements of life in a great American city moulded into one astounding plot. In fact, it is five stories within a story. Melvyn Douglas is a newspaper reporter into whose hands fails a hundred dollar bill that is part of a sum of money paid for a ransom and murder. Douglas goes to work tracing the biJJ. Step by step his relentless pursuit of the bill's source leads him to and through every haunt and purlieu of a city’s teeming life, with the menace of death ever at his shoulder until, in a battering climax, he brings the criminals to justice. Never tagging in its suspense and intensity, (ho unusual story moves through constant changing i scenes, from the ornate home of a wealthy society doctor, a lavishly appointed gambling house, the home of a prize-fighter in the slums, backstage Broadway, cafes, a girl’s boarding school, and a wedding sequence to a railroad wreck. Of primary interest are the exciting newspaper sequences, which, were filmed in a newspaper plant. Supporting Melvyn Douglas are a host 61' brilliant players. Louise Platt, the heart-interest, newly enlisted to the screen from Broadway, gives a capital performance of the school miss who witnesses the kidnapping anc] lots herself in for plenty of trouble. —Friday: Errol Flynn in “Dodge pity”— Tiie rough new civilisation of the West, of the United States, still in its youthful disorder and peopled by violent and ruthless adventurers, and vet amazingly colourful and full of promise for the ambitions, is the stirring scene of “Dodge City,” which will have its initial screening at the Regent Theatre on Friday. Taken in the realism of modern Technicolour, the film Is outstanding in its class. The rousing story is in the hands of Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn, two players who have proved their worth in a diversify of roles, while others who appear in the production are Bruce Cabot. Frank McHugh and Alan Hale. :