AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1947, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Now Showing: “Confidential -Agent, starring Charles Boyer and 'Lauren Bacall. “CONFIDENTIAL AGENT’ Fashioned from the novel ofthe same name by Graham Greene fidential Agent,” which stars Charles Boyer and Laureen Bacall, *- ne screen’s newest dream teams now showing at the Opera House. The film is concerned with adventures of a Spaniard, Denai d (Charles Boyer), ex-musician, employed by the Spanish Republican Party as a confidential agent. Ordered to London on a mission concerning the purchase of large stores or British coal, Denard meets Rose Cullen (Laureen Bacall, impetuous daughter of British nobility, who is attracted to the mystery surrounding the man, then, later, falls in love with him. Their tenuous love grows stronger with each succeeding tribulation. Of mortal enemies, Denard has an abundance, Mrs Melandez (Katina Paxinou), manageress or the small London hotel in which he makes his abode; Contreras (Peter Lorre), a "contact” man attached to the Spanish Republicans; Licata (Victor Francen), suavely treacherous Fascist; Captain Currie (George Coulouris), British Army, Ret., and active opportunist; and, lastly, Mr Muckerji (Dan Seymour), ponderous Hindu and follower of a mysterious Far Eastern philosophy. How Denard meets these enemies and outwits them through hair-raising encounters that include one brutal attack on his own person,

Regent Theatre Now Showing:' “Kitty,” starring Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patrie Knowles, Gecil Kellaway. “Kitty” is the story of a London Cockney waif who becomes the talk of English royalty when Sir Thomas Gainsborough exhibits her portrait at the Royal Academy. Paulette Goddard outdoes herself as the flirtatious hussy who makes five men do her bidding, marches three to the altar, including that prize catch, the Duke of Malmunster, superbly portrayed by Reginald Owen. Ray Milland plays the ingratiating scoundrel for the first time in his career and comes through with a notable performance. Those who remember him as the habitual alcoholic of “The Lost Week-end” will have fresh proof of his remarkable versatility when they see him as Sir Hugh. Constance Collier, one of our most -brilliant character actresses, ably assists as the besotted English dowager who conspires “Kitty” into the grand lady all England thinks she is and sells her off to the highest bidder on the marriage market. This slow, painful process of Kitty’s refinement provides some of the most delightful bits of comedy in the film