ARROWTOWN TALKIES

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4572, 2 July 1942, Page 3

ARROWTOWN TALKIES

TALL, DARK and HANDSOME SHOWING NEXT SATURDAY What technique! What finesse! What a man that dashing Cesar Romero is in “ Tall, Dark and Handsome ’ ’ He’s a killer who doesn’t kill. He watches his own funeral and it’s not done with mirrors! He’s the Romeo of the rackets and last but not least, he gets the girl. And what a honey Virginia Gilmore is! Laughs of the loud, long variety that come close together ,are packed into a story that is reported to have everything —excitement that crackles when the boys give out with Tommy guns—romance with people who believe in living fast because they may die young, and some grand new music, too! ■ ; Action starts popping in the very first reel when Romero, as the Romeo of the rackets, falls for the beautiful Virginia Gilmore, a nurse. Cesar poses as a father and gets Virginia to take a job in his luxurious home. From there on the picture has a thrill a minute as “Pretty Willie,” a rival ganster, discovers that Cesar is not as tough as he’s supposed to be “Rubbed out” gangsters come suddenly to life Cesar’s taken for a ‘ride’ but lives to watch his own funeral and gets the girl in the suspensive climax. It‘s zany, of course, but it’s guaranteed to produce laughter.