AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 16 October 1946, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House George Formby in “Bell Bottom George” will be shown again at the Opera House again and to-morrow night for the last time. FRIDAY. A special matinee will be held on Friday morning at the Opera Hous'e when there will be shown the Olympic film of the 1936 World’s Championships held in Berlin, and on Friday night this picture _of the Olympic Games' will be again shown in conjunction with the glorious picture “Shady Lady,” with the award winning roles. Special scenes. of the Olympic Games held in Berlin shoe/ the world’s greatest athletes in action, in hurdling, discus and hammer throwing, high jump, shot putt, and Lovelock’s epic race of 1500 metres. These scenes are of great interest to all and especially instructive to ail athletes.

Regent Theatre

Now Showing: “Undercover,” starring John Clements and Mary Morris. Michael Balcon’s new film “Undercover,” which is showing at the Regent Theatre to-morrow, is the story of Yugoslavia’s fight against the Nazi invaders—a fight which did not cease with the laying down of arms. but. which haS gone into the hills and mountains, in the streets and villages; a light for their beliefs by the common people of a freedom-loving nation. Based mainly on incidents reported to have occurred. “Undercover” is exciting and melodramatic as may well be believed in these days when it is difficult for fiction to approach the drama of real life. The little Yugoslav community with which the story is concerned is shown through a peasant family. Tom Walls who has made a reputation as a comedian that we are inclined to forget that lie is a first rate character actor, returns to the screen in a dramatic part, that of Kossan, the farmer head of the family. Rachel Thomas, a Welsh school mistress, who made a moving film debut in the Paul Robeson film “Proud Valley,” is his wife, Maria. Stephen Murray plays the part of Stevan, the elder son who has emerged from his peasant background to become the head of a municipal clinic in Belgrade—a clinic which, after the occupation of the city, becomes the organising headquarters of the guerrillas. John Clements is Milosh, the younger son. head of a band of guerrillas and Mary Morris plays his wife, Anna, who joins him in his mountain stionghold and shares his outlaw life. Michael Wilding is Constantine, a spirited fellow guerrilla. Godfrey Tearle as General Von Staengel, the militaiy commander of Belgrade, and Robert Harris as a sadistic German colonel, demonstrate that there is little to choose between the possibe anti-Nazi Prussian miltiarists (as portrayed by the general) and the product of the new ideology. ■