Opera House

Grey River Argus, 1 December 1938, Page 12

Opera House

“BACK IN CIRCULATION.”

An engrossing newspaper drama “Back in Circulation,” with Pat O’Brien, Joan Biondell and Margaret Lindsay In leading roles will be finally screened at the Opera House today and to-night. Murder, what a murder, money, class, and a beautiful widow, and that’s the story which set s the presses rolling and your heart pounding, and it was just what Pat wanted to keep newshawk Joan busy and himself single. But when Joan really wants her man, a mere murder won’t stop her. It’s one of the funniest and fastest action pictures in a long time. “THE LAST GANSTER.” Edward G. Robinson is at his best in “The Last Gangster,” the thrillpacked, heart-rendering, walloppunching prison drama to be screened at the Opera House to-morrow and Saturday. Of added interest is the first appearance in this picture of Rose Stradner, the beautiful Viennese actress, who was imported by M-G-M and who, in the .role of Robinson’s wife proves herself to Ipe an actress of unusual distinction. Robinson gives everything he has got, and Is plenty, to the role of Joe Krozac, who thinks he can fool the Federal government as he has fooled his fellow crooks and even his wife who learns only after she has borne his child that she has never had her husband’s love. But in the end he is sent to prison and loses his wife and child to another man. When he comes out of prison it is not until a turn of events shows him what kind of man he really is that he gives up his child and walks into a rain of bullets from the gun of an avenging gangster. Although Robinson is always dominant in the title role, the performances of both Miss Stradner as his wife and James Stewart as the other man, are the kind they gave awards for. Others who stand out in a ’ noteworthy cast are Lionel Stander’s grim henchman who eventually turns on him, little Douglas Scott as the son, John Caradine~ and Sidney Blackmer. Edward Ludwig has done an effective job of directing, and the spectacular prison scenes and backgrounds are up to the usual M-G-M standard. “The Last Gangster” is one of the most fascinating and colourful dramas of an American public enemy ever brought to the screen. It is at all times a thrilling and pulse-stirring entertainment. *

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