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ADVENTURE AND MYSTERY PROGRAMME AT REGENT “PARACHUTE BATTALION” NEXT Thrilling behind-the-scenes training activities of the 501st. Parachute Battalion provides the sensational background for RKO Radio’s “Parachute Battalion,” the feature attraction appearing at the Regent Theatre on Thursday and Friday. The story is one of powerful emotional appeal and. co-stars such favourites at Robert 'Preston, Nancy Kelly, Edmond O’Brien and Harry Carey, while Buddy Ebsen, Paul Kelly, Richard Cromwell and Robert Barrat are featured.
Aside from its suspense and. its perfectly balanced story, “Parachute Battalion” offers astonishing realism, and a truthful depiction of the newest branch, the parachute corps. The story, an original screen-play by John Twist and Captain John H. Fite, U.S. Air Corps, is invested with meticulous authenticity of background and training routine. Special permission was received from the Army’s high command to make the major part of the scenes at Fort Benning, Georgia, home of the 501st. Parachute Battalion.
Exciting and crammed with action," “Smashing the Money Ring,” the third in the Warner Bros, series depicting the adventures of the U.S. Secret Service, also shows at the Regent Theatre on Thursday and Friday.
Bringing Ronald Reagan back as the the handsome and clever operative, “Smashing the Money Ring” also introduces a new Screen discovery, pretty and talented Margot Stevenson.
Bristling with excitement and comedy, the plot, besides being a story of hazardous adventure, presents the opportunity to learn the methods of an American Government me nt which wages an unceasing war against counterfeiters.
“STRAWBERRY BLONDE ”
WILL BE SCREENED TO-NIGHT
Due to the film “Strawberry Blonde” being overcarried and taken to Auckland in. error it was not possible to screen it at the Regent Theatre last night. “Strawberry Blonde” will definitely be screened at the Regent Theatre at the matinee to-day and again to-night.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3132, 17 June 1942, Page 5
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297DOUBLE FEATURE Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3132, 17 June 1942, Page 5
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