MAJESTIC

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11878, 24 February 1933, Page 6

MAJESTIC

“THE OLD DARK HOUSE.”

To-day is the last opportunity of seeing the tense, electric drama of one terrifying night, “The Old DarkHouse,” hailed, everywhere as a masterpiece of frenzied excitement and gripping suspense. Universal’s supreme effort in startling drama, made from the novel by J. B. Priestley, will bold' the spectator breathless throughout its swift sequences’. Boris Karloff. Charles Laughton, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey, Brember Willis, Eva Moore head a brilliant cast under the' master director, James Whale. Set against a magnificent scenic background of the Tyrolean Alps, and enacted by a brilliant cast of players headed by Tala Birell and Luis Trenker, “The Doomed Battalion,” which will open to-morrow, is a chapter from real life. The story deals with a friendship between a mountain guide of the Austrian Tyrol and an Italian which is cemented by the perils of many Alpine climbs, Suddenly the World War arrives to place each in opposing mountain companies contesting for a vantage peak. A tense situation • develops when military orders force the Italian to attempt the annihilation of his friend’s detachment by blowing up the top of the mountain. The box plan is at the Regent Theatre.