AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22759, 4 October 1948, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

King’s.—The latcßt change brings the film "Fighting Father Dunne." a picture that tells of a man of peace stung into action by seeing what happened on and off the sidewalks of New York, He discovers that several boys are living in old packing cases at the rear of a stable, and it irks him to think that there should be a wastage of such human material in a land of plenty. # So Father Dunne takes them along to his sister’s home. This colony of boys quickly grows, and Father Dunne soon has a problem on his hands. How he meets it is the theme. Regent.—" Another Part of the Forest” concludes today at the Regent. Handsomely refuting the canard that there is "nothing new tinder the sun” is Warner Bros.* new film drama, "Possessed,” which opens at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. Boasting an outstanding cast headed by Joan Crawford and Van Heflin, the film presents a startling departure froro the routine treatment ordinarily accorded the theme of unrequited love and, incidentally, provides Joan Crawford with one of her most challenging roles to date. Raymond Massey and Geraldine Brook are also in the cast. Majestic.—-Gainsborough’s film version of Margery Lawrence's novel "Madonna of the Seven Moons” screens today. The leading roles are taken by Phyllis Calvert as Maddalena, the wife of an wine merchant, and Stewart Granger as Nino, . Maddalena s lover. The story deals with the difficulties experienced by Maddalena, who suffers from split personality, in trying to lend two unrelated lives. The part of Maddalena s daughter, Angela, is taken by Patricia Roc.