REGENT THEATRE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20241, 8 May 1940, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE

FRANCHOT TONE AND ANN SOTHERN IN "FART AND FURIOUS" When bulbing bounties parade, anything can happen. And it does in "Fast and Furious." now at the Regent Theatre, to the tune of twe murders, several attempted ones, the most startling parade of beauty seer, in films for a long while, and the presentation of Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern as contestants for the title of "craziest screen couple." In his first screen appearance since doing a Broadway play. Tone plays the part of Joe! Sloane, easy-going bibliophile and amateur detective, and Anr Sothern is his devoted wife. Garda. On a supposed vacation r\. a seaside resort, trouble starts as i.osn as they arrive. Sloane finds himself, io Garda’s unconcealed fury, a juris. - in a beauty pageant being staged*. Ihcn his besi friend is held lor the murder of the pageant’s promoter. Feeling his friend to be innocent, Sloane and Garda sol out to prove it. They uncover three good suspects in the promoter’s bitterly jealous secretary. a revengeful racketeer, and a "two-timing" beauty winner. But the last-mentioned is als: murdered, and other . clues turn tr nothing before Sloane can uncover the real killer. Gay comedy is woven intc the mystery with the domestic scene.* between Tone and Miss Sothern ano the antics of a typical pageant crowd at a summer resort. The short subjects include "Pound Foolish,” a "Crime Does Not Pay" feature; "A Door Wil' Open.” a scientific film: a cartoon, and the latest war news. —Friday: Important Film, Clifford Odets’ “Golden Boy” "Golden Boy.” the film which Columbia has produced from an adaptation of fhe Clifford Odets’ play, and which the company regards as one ol its most important productions of the season that has just begun, will be shown at the Regent on Friday. When it was shown to representatives ol picture theatres and the press,, the hopes of the producers were generally regarded as having been justified. As a film. '‘Golden Bov” was somewhat of an unknown quantity, for the leadinr role, the characterisation of which gives the whole play its force, was entrusted to a boy of 21 who has never before been seen on the screen. William Holden. One* can be certain if will not be his last film part, for he i* a young man of individuality and attractive personality. Moreover, he has the depth of intellect to "get into the skin" of the son of a .New York Italian grocer, who though gifted musically, yields to the temptation to battle for gold in the boxing ring, and ruins himself both as a boxer and as a musician. The other principal roles are those of the boy's father, remarkably well played by Lee J. Cobb, his boxing manager, played by Adolphe Menjou, the slightly-soiled girl who befriends him, played by Barbara Stanwyck, and the gangster rival of Menjou, played by Joseph Calleia. The direction of Rouben Mamoulian and the reproduction of a violin solo which does as much as anything else to reveal the character of the young mtsician are other factors in the . access of "Golden Boy.”