Opera House

Grey River Argus, 5 February 1941, Page 10

Opera House

Now Showing: “UNDERCOVER DOCTOR” and “HERITAGE OF THE DESERT.” I “UNDERCOVER DOCTOR” I i Paramount has assembled a fine i cast to interpret the interesting cnar--1 acters in “Undercover Doctor” which is now showing at the Opera House. 1 'the cast—Lloyd Nolan, Janice Logan, Paramount’s recent lilm find, J. Car- ’ rol Naish, Heather Angel, Broderick ; Crawford and Robert Wilcox —topnotch. So is Louis King’s direction. Based on one of the exciting episodes in J. Edgar Hoover’s book, “Persons in Hiding,” the picture relates the case of a brilliant but weakwilled surgeon and a building contract who are in cahoots with a gang of ruthless*killers. The doctor falls in with the crooks when he finds that financial success is still very far away. Soon his illicit earnings are sufficient to establish an expensive office where the city’s society folk and heiresses come for treatment. A rich, society girl 'is about to be married to the undercover doctor when she is saved from ultimate disgrace by the timeiy intervention of the G-Men. “Undercover Doctor” is well worth seeing. “HERITAGE OF THE DESERT” Lovers of the great outdoors will enjoy “Heritage of the Desert” which is now showing at the Opera House. For here is one of the greatest Westerns H. Sherman has produced for Paramount. The story is swift-moving, rushing from one action-packed scene to the next. It’s about a young tenderfoot who shows his heels to the soft life he’s been leading to search for life, love and fortune out on the western plains. He almost doesn’t make it when his scheming representative out west sends one of his henchmen to put him on the spot lest he discover the agent’s thievery. The gunman almost succeeds, but luckily for the tenderfoot, a pious ranchman rescues the half-dead easterner and brings him home to his desert ranch. The stranger wins back his strength under the kindly care of the rancher’s lovely daughter. A jealous cowhand warns the tenderfoot to keep going if he wants to preserve his health. Of course, the tenderfoot refuses to budge. And before long, the screen is crowded with fighting, shooting, riding trouble-mak-ers. Featured in the cast are Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, Russell “Lucky” Hayden, Robert. Barrat and Sidney Toler. Lesley Selander direct- ; ed it.