AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. to-night finally. “SAILOR’S LADY.” Preview audiences are still laughing and chuckling over the riotous comedy in “Sailor’s Lady,” starring Nancy Kelly and Jon Hall, which is now showing at the .Regent Theatre. The Navy is the background for this 20th Century-Fox picture. There’s laughter from-ship to shore. And, of course, it’s grand when the gobs land to take the girls in hand. Smart, full of surprises, the picture zooms along at a fast pace to a riotous climax when a sailor’s sweetheart stows away her adopted ha by on the flagship and scuttles the. Navy’s war games—all for love, of course. Nancy Kelly, one of Hollywood’s most versatile young stars, has a fine comedy pg..rt in “Sailor’s Lady.” Opposite her is Jon Hall who plays the role of a sailor engaged to , marry Nancy. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.. “THE MAN WHO WOULN’T TALK” AND “SANTA FE MARSHAL.” . On unusual and absorbing idea in mystery films comes to the Regent Theatre. to-morrow with 2fith Century-Fox drama, “The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk.” From the. outset of the film, when a murder is committed, the audience and the police know at once who-committed the ..crime; the mystery is the identify of the killer and his motive; Confessing to the slaying, the .murderer, who calls , himself «Jpo Monday ( refuse to speak another word even in his own defence. •The result is.'a. "highly exciting story well played::by. Lloyd Nolan, in the ■tirlh role,.‘Jean -Rogers, -Richard Clarke, j Onslow Stevens and 'Erießloic. ‘

Tangible proof of the fact that the “Hopalong Cassidy” outdoor action romaniecs enjoy an unsurpassed popularity among pictures of the type lies in the fact that they are shown in more than 7500 theatres throughout the United States. The latest film in- the series, “Santa Fe Marshal,” is scheduled to be shown to-morrow at the Regent Theatre, starring William Boyd as Hop-’-MonsH'CfissMy and featuring Russel? “Lucky’’ Hayden, Marjorie Rambeau, Bern ad cite Hates. Earl Hbdgins and •Britt .Wood. . - vi '