“A YANK IN LIBYA”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32479, 13 September 1944, Page 5

“A YANK IN LIBYA”

THRILLING & SPECTACULAR PROGRAMME AT REGENT “HOME IN WYOMING” ALSO Desert warfare with all the colourful trappings of Arab shieks and their embattled tribesmen involved in the struggle between the Nazis and the British in Libya, will be found on the screen of the Regent Theatre on Thursday and Friday. The timely new war drama is “A Yank In Libya,” from the P.R.C. studio. The plot has been ingeniously contrived to revolve around the adventures of an American war correspondent, played by Walter Woolf King. He stumbles upon a Nazi plot to foment an uprising among the Arab' tribes by supplying them with machine guns. In his eagerness to get the story on the cable to the United States, he fails to grasp the fact that the British consul in the .desert town pf El Moktar, and several agents in the British Intelligence, are fully l appraised of the Nazi intrigue, and are biding their time to pull a counter coup. Their efforts to stop him furnish thrills and some fine comedy situations. Romance is injected with Joan Woodbury as a beautiful British secret agent giving the energetic American newspaperman an awful run-around before she finally surrenders to his go-getting technique. H. B. Warner, that sterling actor, is the consul. Parkyakarkusi as a British Intelligence agent born' in Brooklyn, disguised as an Arab peddler, contributes hilarious scenes' and dialogue that will give you some of the best laughs you have enjoyed in the theatre.

Duncan Renaldo is the Arab shiek friendly to the British, who does a Valentino role in a scene with Miss Woodbury in his desert tent that will have the girls 00-hing and aah-ing. The shots of hundreds of Arab tribesmen thundering over the desert sands are thrilling and spectacular. Albert Herman directed a fast-paced drama of romance, thrills and comedy.

“Home In Wyoming,” starring‘Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fan MaeKenzie, Chic Chandler and Tadpole will also show at the Regent Theatre on Thursday and Friday. Thrills, action and songs, galore, moving swiftly and entrancingly along a rodeo background. Gene at his best, .Smiley at his. funniest. A rousing rangeland adventure studded with music and action! Songs include “Tweedie O’Twill,” “Twilight In Old Wyoming,” “Clementine,” “Thinking To-night of My Blue Eyes,’’ and tile Irving* Berlin 'hit, “Any Bonds Today.”

FINALLY TO-NIGHT

“FOREMAN WENT TO FRANCE”

“The Foreman Went To France,”' will show finally to-night at the Regent Theatre.