AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 20 January 1943, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now Showing: “Sealed Lips” and Frank Buck's “Jungle Cavalcade.” “SEALED LIPS” By far one of the cleverest action dramas to come out of Hollywood for a long while is Universal’s “Sealed lips,” now showing at the Opera House. Featuring William Gargan, June Clyde, John Litel and Anne Nagel, the picture presents a different and refreshing type of fast-moving semimystery drama. The picture deals with a Public Enemy who entraps an innocent civilian who resembles him and compels the innocent man Io serve the gangster’s term in prison. The efforts of the Bureau of Investigation to prove that the real criminal had never felt the weight of the law are said to be graphically shown. The result is an exciting and intriguing action drama. “JUNGLE CAVALCADE” The fascination which wild animals in their native habitat hold for picture audiences never has been more clearly demonstrated than in Frank Buck’s "Jungle Cavalcade,” now showing at the Opera House. Adventure, strife and comedy run through this astonishing wild animal picture, in which every thing is real and unrehearsed. Fact once more proves more astonishing than fiction —and there can be no doubt that Frank Buck’s “Jungle Cavalcade” is rated as ace-high entertainment and that rarity of rarities—something really unforgettable. Regent Theatre NOW SHOWING “Bad Man,” starring Wallace Beery in his greatest role since “Viva Villa.” “The Bad Man,” dramatic and comical adventure story of the cattle ranges, brings Wallace Beery to the Regent Theatre commencing Tuesday in his most picturesque role since "Viva Villa!” He enacts Pancho Lopez, Robin Hood of the cattle country, in a whimsical adventure in which he applies bandit ethics to straighten out the lives of a group of “tenderfeet” wth dramatic and sometimes laughable results. Lionel Barrymore is teamed with Beery, playing the grizzled rancher who isn’t afraid of him and thereby providing much comical detail to the fast-moving story. Beery and Barrymore are surrounded by a large cast of principals, including Laraine Day, of the “Dr Kildare” pictures, and Ronald Reagan of “Santa Fe Trail” fame, as the lovers whose destinies the bandit tries to untangle. Tom Conway, English actor, is cast as the “Heavy” and ; Henry Travers. Nydia Westman. I Chris-Pin Martin, Charles Stevens and others are among the players. Most of the picture was filmed on location near Gallup, New Mexico, the rugged scenery providing a picturesque setting for the stampede of hundreds of cattle, the desperate pursuit of a bandit gang by mounted police, and other thrills of the range that punctuate the whimsical hum-1 our and gripping drama of the play, one of the great stage hits of the past two decades. Richard Thorpe, who directed Beery in “Wyoming” again directed the star’s new picture. Hundreds of cattie, horses, Indians and cowboys were enlisted on location for the major thrill sequences of the drama, and a complete ranch with abode house, barns and corrals, was constructed on the range for the picture.