AMUSEMENTS
EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. NOW SHOWING. “BLIND ALLEY” AND-.DDEVIL ON WHEELS.” ' A crime,drama novel in treatment,and theme “Blind Alley” enlists: tile ;stellar talents of Chester Morris,"-' '-Ralph Bellamy and Ann Dvorak, Others in the cast, are Rose Stradncr, Joan' Perry, Melville Cooper, Mare Lawrence iAnd John Eldridgo. “Blind Alley” possesses one of most dynamic basic sitifatib'iis of recent years. A gunman, accustomed to ruthless murder, -becomes- the' “guinea pig” of a distinguished psychiatrist who probes the killer’s suliconscidus mind until the man becomes a ijompWtely changed figure 1 With fast-talking Pat O’Brieri, Ann “Oomph Girl” Sheridan, the exotic Gale Page, lumrt-hreaker 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 nt the Princess Theatre. Hailed as one of the most exciting and romantic films ever brought to*the screen, “Devil On Wheels.” forcefully depicts all the lure of the. groat sport of motor racing on workl-faimtd tracks. COMMENCING WEDNESDAY. ; “RIO” AND “THE PYJAMA GIRL MYSTERY.” ' > “Rio” is a glorification of romance iii the gnvest city on earth. It stars Basil Rathbonff and Victor McTjaglen and brings Sigrid Gurie to the peak of her career. Featured with her are Leo Carrillo and Robert Cummings. The story flashes from Paris to Rio in the carnival season and Universal ma.kes; it flash. Music, dancing and the carnival. mirth of Rio mingle with drama and romance in a story of a beautiful woman and a brilliant young American. Also “The Pyjama Girl Mystery”, produced with tho co-operation of the N.S.W. police. Here is powerful, dramatic .sensationalism, intimately telling the story of the world’s most baffling crime. , W
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1940, Page 3
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