AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT.

TO-NIGHT.

“TELL NO TALES" AND “MY SON IS A CRIMINAL."

“Tell No Tales" which is showing to-night at the Princess Theatre, is a remarkable production in many ways. To classify it is difficult. The picture is different. Drama predominates but it is all-embracing entertainment running the gamut of emotion-stirring situations and defying routine formula. Molvvn Douglas is a newspaper reporter into whose hands falls a hundred dollar bill that is part of a sum of money paid for a ransom and murder. Douglas goes to work tracing the bill- Step by step his relentless pursuit of the bill’s source leads him to and through every haunt and purlieu of the city’s teaming life, with the menace of death ever at his shoulder until in a final battering climax, he brings the criminals to justice.

No more terrible duty did a man ever face—than to uphold the law by shooting his own son! The most vicious leader the underworld has ever known faces the guns of the law —with his own father pulling the trigger. “My Son is a Criminal" showing tonight at the Princess Theatre to provide startling and dramatic new thrills in a blistering battle of fists and bullets! This Columbia, production is the story of an old-school policeman who uncovers clue after clue in his hunt for an unknown killer, only to learn that the finger of guilt points to his own son. Alan Baxter, Jacqueline Wells and Gordon Oliver are among the principal members of the cast, which includes Willard Robertson, Joseph King, Eddie Laughton and John Tyrrell.

COMMENCING WEDNESDAY.

“THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN."

“The Forgotten Woman," a gripping dramatic story starring Sigrid Gurie, comes on Wednesday to the Princess Theatre. Featured in the supporting cast are Donald Briggs, Eve Arden, William Lundigan, Elizabeth Risdon and Donnie Dunagan. The story concerns an innocent young woman who is 'sent to prison by a District Attorney as a result of circumstantial evidence. 'Efforts to the District Attorney to rectify his tragic mistake when he learns the truth provides a series of unusual 'dramatic events. Donald Briggs has the romantic lead opposite Miss Gurie in the production which was directed by Harold Young.

REGENT THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.

“NEWS IS MADE At NIGHT" ANp

“ARIZONA WILDCAT."

I The paper got its headlines! Yes, because a daring girl reporter and her hard-driving managing editor worked iday and night to unmask the ruthless criminal of a big metropolis. At the Ile'gent Theatre this evening you’ll . see one of the most thrilling mystery films of a lifetime. Preston Foster j and Lynn Bari head the list of featured players in this 20th Century-Fox ’ release. Others prominent in the cast j are Bussell Gleason, George Barbier, I Eddie C'ollins and Minor Watson. Just imagine Jane Withers with Leo Carrillo and a band of Mexican outlaws, attempting to restore law and order to an Arizona town and you will get some idea of what hilarious proceedings must go on in “The Arizona Wildcat,” 20th Century-Fox production which is now ‘ showing at the Begent Theatre. The film stars off with high action when the stagecoach arrives in Mineville, Arizona, with the riddled bodies of the driver and two guards mute testimony they had been murdered and fobbed of a gold shipment the coach had been carrying' from the mine. One of the guards escaped and the sheriff and his deputies ride off in search of h'iift and to capture the bandits. The film reaches a hilarious eoncleusion iji a courtroom scene which finds Carrillo and Henry both up on trial. Quick thinking on Jane’s part saves the day and everything turns out fin'o for all concerned—the sheriff and his gang- excepted. Importantly cast in the supporting roles "are Pauline Moore, William Henry Henry Wilcoxon, Douglas Fowlev and Etienne Girardot. Bailees were staged by Nicholas Castle and Geneva Sawyer;”.