AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT FINALLY. “HELL’S CARGO’- AND' “DANGER FLIGHT.” Here is one of the most gripping sea . dramas ever released from the British studios. It lias a novel plot-beams with thrills and no film lias ever offered more in the way of cbilliiljt'siirpense. Three naval commanders one French, and British, lone Russian, united m friendship by the, small son of ode of them, only to be torn apart when their ’ men participate in a brawl in a bale. A mysterious vessel living the Yellow Jack >n the port—La drunken .dpetor from the, boat causing the brawl-f-the-murder of the doctor by the owner of the vessel, because he finds that the doctor lias dropped the inforipation that the menace on hoard is. not “Yellow Fever” Inict something far more diabolical. They were carrying, death! A hell’s cargo of Ariline Dye which when in contact with sea water creates, a deadly gas capable of annihilating life. As soon a s this fact leaks out. international law is proclaimed, and the commanders unwillingly find.;-t}iem-selves at one purpose—to capture* and escort the ship, to port, . .ni //] Thrills are the theme song of* Monogram, .‘‘Danger.Flight,(’ the latest Tailspin Tommy film now showing ,at the Princess Theatre.,, It. dramatizes-, the building of model airplanes,-and* shows ; how youngsters of to-day, come- to'love j and understand, aviation, through" models. Primarily it is the . story of--Tail-spin Tommy’s Air Scouts, i a,young organsation simijhr, •' to the. Boy Sedutj.-n and tells of the regeneration of a boy from, the'gutter; who gives up his gang to ;join the Scouts of the Air. COMMENCING WEDNESDAY. “BRITISH INTELLIGENCE.” Epionage on ah elaborate scale and subversive activities instigated by Germany were just as a great a problem to the Allies during the Great War as shells and submarines, but counter measures adopted by the “British Intelligence’’ to stamp out a dangerous of- war eventually succeeded in their objective. In Warner Bros thrilling new release “British Intelligence*’ commencing to-moi’row, AVednb'day, espionage is the'■'■‘thorite which " has been woven into a super-exciting inbiodramh 1 which* relegates" actual "warfare! to a ghostly position in the 1 background an’d "brings to the lord the 1 dangers that beset the espionage operatives'. . ; f ] . 1 uwm wotrtgimwjEßrgatwagaßaigiKaßMlKaHi |