AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 7 November 1949, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Finally to-night: “The Hills of Home,” also the 4th Test, All Blacks v. South Africa and the N.Z. Boxing Championships. Commencing to-morrow; “The Green Fingers,” . starring Robert Beatty, Carol Raye, Nova Pilbeam, Felix Aylmer. This film which is another British masterpiece, is the most controversial picture to be made in years. This is the story of Thomas Stone, a fisherman with a leg disabled, in the war and which all doctors told him he would be disabled for life. He goes to London and is healed by an Osteopath, after which he decides that he also will become an Osteopath. The ensuing story is one which you will thoroughly enjoy, but one that will be condemned by your doctor. Regent Theatre Finally To-day: “June Bride,” with Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery. Commencing To-morrow: "Ruthless,” starring Zachery Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Martha Vickers. "Ruthless” tells the story of a man, played by Zachary S'cott, destined from childhood by personality . to make his way up in the world —with no thought of the price, either to himself or to those he uses, as he climbs the ladder to infamous success. As a child, Scott worms his way into the graces of a wealthy family and gets them to send him to Harvard. There he meets and becomes engaged to Martha Vickers, the niece of the influential broker, whom he discards when he learns that she is of no mora use to him. His boyhood friend, Louis Hayward, watches as Scott breaks an industrialist who helped him and then steals the wife of the ruined man. The tense and dramatic climax is reached when Scott, confident, suave, enormously wealthy ,and at the peak of his career, attempts to steal the fiancee of Hayward, his best friend.