Regent

Grey River Argus, 6 February 1941, Page 10

Regent

Finally To-night: “THE LADY VANISHES.’’ Commencing Friday: “U-BOAT 29.” The catastrophe now sweeping Europe is brought to vivid actuality 041 the screen in Columbia’s “U-Boat 29,” which presents a stirringly dramatic picture of a war-smitten England desperately battling enemy spies and submarines. With Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Sebastian Shaw in the featured roles, “U-Boat 29” bears an amazing resemblance at times to recent events abroad. Particularly is this true in the case of the thrill-tense climax of the new film, in which a passenger vessel, laden with women and children, is! torpedoed by an undersea craft. For the most part, however, “U-Boat 29 ' confines itself to the bitter struggle between an enemy agent and the counter-espionage network. By thus confining the war to the efforts of individuals, directly Michael Powell achieves an atmosphere so taut with, life-and-death conflict that his cameras automatically embrace in scope the world-wide disaster and its significance. PATRIOTIC SHOP Residents south of Sawyer’s Creek bridge are reminded that their shop day is to-morrow (Friday); As this is the first patriotic shop held this year residents are earnestly requested t 0 make their donations as big as possible and start <he new year with a bumper shop.