AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 16 February 1949, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

At the Opera House Now Showing: “The Return of the Badmen” and “The Madonna’s Secret.” Combining all the ingredients of thrilling Western entertainment, hard riding, fist-fights, romance and comedy. “The Return of the Badmen” with Randolph Scott, Anne Jeffreys and George (Gabby) Hayes in leading roles now showing at the Opera House. The story concerns a group of famous outlaws, the Dalton Boys, who decide to strip a new Oklahoma settlement. They have a measure of success but are foiled by the marshall, who gets valuable information from a girl who was a former confederate of the gang. The girl is killed for her betrayal and in an exciting climax the marshal disposes of the "leader in a ghost town. Starring Frances Lederer, Gail Patrick and Ann Rutherford, an unusual depictment of the pychology of murder, its causes and effects, are thrillingly told in “The Madonna’s Secret,” now’ showing at the Opera House.

The film reveals that of a famous painter, who on three successive occasions, finds his beautiful models are mysteriously murdered. All suspicions definitely point to him but in his confused and bewildered mind he does not know whether he is guilty or not. The uncertainty and brooding confuses him all the more. A young lady secures a nosition as a model in an effort to solve the murders. and when his guilt appears certain, he is arrested. Realising she loves him he faces the conflict of confused emotions and .strange events to a dramatic end. Regent Shows N,ow Showing; “Odd Man Ou-t,” starring James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan. “Odd Man Out” starring James Mason, who plays the role of Johnny Mac Queen the leader of an illegal organisation, who sacrifices everything for his beliefs, has extraordinary tense situations. Unusual, too, is the love aspect—that of a girl devoted to a man and his cause, who reveals no indication of her great loss. Johnny considers nothing excent his political objectives, apparently ignoring the girl who would give her life to help him. But it is her love which ultimately proves the most compelling factor in his destiny, and provides the dramatic climax. The unselfish Irish beauty is played by a new screen discovery, Kathleen Ryan, and the film also stars Robert Newton, in the role of an eccentric artist in search of inspiration.