DOUBLE FEATURE
LONE WOLF KEEPS A DATE
“SIX-GUN GOLD” ALSO
PROGRAMME AT THE REGENT
Fiction’s most fascinating rogue, Michael Lanyard, returns to the Regent Theatre screen on Thursday and Friday in “The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date,” a sparkling Columbia melodrama. Warren William, who has played the title role in the past, succeeds in making the screen’s suavest scamp come to life more skilfully than ever, as he gaily pursues his life of adventure and romance. His romantic foil in this latest hit of the popular series is Frances Robinson, lovely young Columbia starlet. The light-fingered scoundrel’s current adventure takes him to a pleasure resort for millionaires, where he becomes involved in a desperate plot revolving around the kidnapping of a retired millionaire. Eager to help Patricia Lawrence, who has the £201,000 ransom money in her possession, Michael Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, temporarily puts aside his hobby of stamp collecting and busies himself in a desperate search for the kidnappers.
Stepping into a tangled web of mirth and murder, he succeeds in locating the criminals, only to be captured himself. With typical Lone Wolf recklessness, Lanyard manages to attract police attention to the gang’s hide-out on a small island off the coast. In a smashing climax, the criminals are routed by the police and Lanyard receives Miss Lawrence’s eternal gratitude.
The entire case is superb. Mr William, smooth, sure, comedy-adept, is the perfect Lone Wolf., Miss Robinson, in the role of Patricia Lawrence, is properly effective and beautiful, while Eric Blore comes in for his share of the laughs as Jamison, Lanyard’s boredi-but-efficient valet. Others who contribute ably to the merry excitement include Bruce Bennett, Jed Prouty, Fred Kelsey, Thurston Hall and Don Beddoe. • ■
“Six-Gun Gold,” starring Tim Holt will also show at the Regent Theatre and Thursday and Friday night.
FINALLY TO-NIGHT
“HUDSON’S ’BAY”
“Hudson’s Bay,” will show finally • Regent Theatre. to-night at
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3126, 3 June 1942, Page 5
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314DOUBLE FEATURE Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3126, 3 June 1942, Page 5
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