AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

King’s.—Jack Bonny, the noted screen comedian, is starred with Priscilla Lane in the rollicking Twentieth (Vntury-Fox comedy. '•The Meanest Man in tin* World, the mam attractiinn in the programme screening: at the King’s to-day. Others who are foatuivd are Rochester, Edmund Cwonn. Helene Reynolds, ami Anne Devere. Benny, a tenderhearted attorney in a small town, succeeds in achieving bankruptcy, and his troubles reach a climax when ho loses a case for Priscilla’s father. The associate feature is “Alibi,” starring Margaret Loci;wood and Hugh Sinclair. Regent.—" Across tin- Pacific.” screening fit .-illy to-day. Spencer Tracy :mil 'reu--Diiune make a welcome rrnppc-arai us l lk' Miiv.s of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production, "A Guy Named Joe,” commem-ing to-ntnr-ii.-,v at tin- Regent. Tt-ticy ban (lone r.o

letter work than in Ibis romantic story of an uiiUMtal pilot with n philosophy of !il'<i that will appeal to all. tt is a role entirely tlilVerent from that which I such ■Treat opportunities in "Boys’ 'lmvn. and shows him once, more to lie complete master of his art.

Majestic. --“Mission to Moscow" is a thrilliny; adventure story based on tin* life of Joseph E. Davies, formerly United Stales Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Ihe theme of the film is America’s discovery ihrouph the eyes of a typical American and his family of the great strength of Russia. ■Walter Huston and Ann Hardiiiy are starred ia the roles of the Ambassador and Mrs. Davies, and a laryo supporting east includes Al- x Chirvu as Pierre Laval. Jack Youny as President Roosevelt, Dudley Malone as Winston Churchill, and Kippi-n as Stalin.