AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

/40W SHOWING.

“BLIND ALLEY” AND “DEVIL ON WHEELS.’’ f

A crime drama novel in treatment and theme “Blind Alley” enlists, the ’stellar talents of Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy and' Ann Dvorak. Other's, in the cast- are Rose, Stradner, Jqan Pbrry, Melville Cooper, Mare Lawreqce and John Eldridge. “Blind Alley.”,.possesses ono of most dynamic basic situations of recent years. A gunman, accustomed, to ruthless murder, becomes-, ; thq ; “guinea pig” of a distinguished psychiatrist who probes the killer’s r: subconscious! mind until the man becomes a completely changed figure. “Blind Alley?’ offers not only a menialconflict ol tremendously absorbing scope, but physical action of the most thrilling typo. With fast-talking Pat O’Brien, Ann “Oomph Girl” Sheridan, the exotic Gale Page, heart-breaker John. Payne, and comical Frank McHugh in the leading roles, “Devil on Wheels,” spinetingling drama of automobile racing produced by the Warner Bros. Studio,' is now showing at the Princess Theatre. Hailed as one of the most exciting, and romantic films' ever brought" to the screfcn, “Devil On Wheels.” forcefully depicts all the lure of the great sport of motor racing on world-famed tracks.- The stbr'V ; concerns the efforts of Pat O’Brien, chaniploii race driver, to make John Payne, bis younger brother. continue with college, and not follow in bis own footsteps. lira dramatic, sensations*] scene Pat comes into bis own, and 'is reconciled to his brother. ' •