AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. TO-NIGHT AND FRIDAY. “CHARLIE CHAN IN CITY IN DARKNESS” & “MARSHAL OF MESA CITY.” Blackout in Paris! The city waits, tense in a great human omcigencj • But there’s no blackout for crime and against-the background of the tremendous European drama of to-day a worldrenowned sleuth is coemmandeered to solve the mystery threatening the lives of innocent thousands. As timely in its exciting theme as that last radio bulletin interrupting your favourite programme, “Charlie Chau in City in Darkness” now showing at the Regent Theatre. With Sidney Toler again in the role of the famous Oriental detective, the 20th Century-Fox picture features Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke, Harold Huber, Pedro de Cordoba, Dorothy Tree, C. Henry Gordon, Douglas Dumbrille and Noel Madison.

Suspense, thrilling gun-fights, hand-to-hand combats, comedy, tragedy and a tender romance aye interwoven in “The Marshal of Mesa City,” George O’Brien’s new outdoor movie, exciting saga of the courageous federal maishals who ended the riotous and bloody rule of the frontier desperadoes, during the days of the early West. O’Brien in the title role, moves steadily, surely, saga njously through “The Marshal of Mesa City,” .guided by a philosophy, acquired through years of service .in bringing law and order to frontier communities. When lie is commissioned marshal of the mushroom community of Mesa City, O’Brien attempts to .eradicate the criminal element lint his ’ actions are ' checked by the seemingly legitimate authorities; headed by a despotic crooked shei'ifi.