AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 31 October 1942, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Ogera House

Now Showing: “Ships With Wings," starring John Clements and Ann Todd. “SHIPS WITH WINGS" The picture of a thousand breathtaking thrills and a contribution of inestimable value of the national selfpride, “Ships with Wings”, with John Clements, Leslie BankSj Jane Baxter. Ann Todd heading a cast < of thousands and featuring the aircraft carrier “Ark Royal,” now showing at the Opera House.

“Ships with Wino-s” is a thoroughly exciting piece, full of spies, raids, crashes, air battles, minefields and bursting dams. It has some roaring spectacular stuff, a scrap or two of love interest, a bit of bulldog breed, and John Clements, in his popular part of • the gallant young gentleman wrongly accused of being not quite gallant, or not quite a' gentleman. But it has something more- .it has the solid background of the Fleet Air Arm. Behind all the- film cliches for, frankly, they- are cliches) of the Nazi agent, the Sub-Lieutenant with the pretty sister, the disgraced flier piloting for the obscure island airline and the cabaret singer as faithful as she is fashionable dropping in to console him, there is the storv far stranger far more dreadful and •moving, of the life of an aircraft-carrier There is the story of a new weapon in naval warfare, a weapon mist-•list ed, but at long last tried In the hands! 01 brave men, and heroically proved. This .is, as it should be, the real theme of “Ships with Wings.” The film is superb. The sequences, of the final raid by fighters and torpedo-

carrying planes are admirably contrived; and, for the first time the audience gets a genuine pictorial impression of the Fleet Air Arm in action.

Regent Theatre Now Showing: “The Lady Has Plans." An exciting spy-chase picture loaded with launhs and thrills; starring Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard. The fun is, fast and furious at the Regent Theptre where Paramount’s comedy-thriller, “The Lady Has Plans,” co.-starring Ray’’ Milland and Paulette Goddard is how screening. The film’s locale - is exciting ,Lisbon where Ray Milland, American

newscaster, awaits a reoorter assistant. Paulette Goddard turns out to bt> the assistant when he had expected a man, so the lovely lady gets of! to a bad start right away. inat. however, is only the minor halt ot her trouble. She is mistaken for a dangerous spy (Margaret Hayes; who is known to have drawn on her back in invisible ink, stolen U.S. Navy plans. Every f° rei S n ®£ ent ;£ intrigue-infested Lisbon wants t e plans and Nazi agent Albert Dekker is not too delicate in efforts to get them. When Paulet.e finally realises that even her b °ss, Milland, suspects. her of espionage, she clears herself at the American Embassy and then the thrills really pile up when together Paulette and Milland set out to round up the entire spy ring.