ON THE SCREEN
REGENT, MATAMATA : ' A double feature, proramme will be screened at the Regent Theatre tonight and Friday. “Hunted Men,” featuring Mary Carlisle, Lloyd Nolan and Lynne Overmann, is a thrilling mystery drama filled with gripping situations.. 0 Will Hay takes tine .leading role in “'Convict 99,” with a, supporting cast including Moore Marriot, Graham Moffat and Google Withers. An hilarious comedy, this picture Is said to be Will Hay’s best. On Saturday- and Monday, “Test Pilot,” with Clark Gable.' Mytna Loy and Spencer Tracy starring, will be shown. A thrilling aviation drama, this picture provides really good entertainment. • : CIVIC, PUTARURU. : “The Game That Kills,’’ which comes to the Civic Theatre on. Friday only, is a drama told against the, background of an ice hockey championship fight. It features Columbia’s new star, Charles Quigley, with. Rita Hayworth and J. Farrell MacDonald. The second feature provides the “top” names in entertainment today in “Radio City Revels” RKO Radio’s new musical screen comedy. The most successful colour film that has yet reached the screen is the first technicolour sea story* “ Ebb Tide ” which, is to be shown, on Saturdayl find Monday. . .There; has been no setting so far which showed.Tfcshlf so perfectly adapted to technicolour photography as the South, Seas, locale of this story by Stevenson, and Lloyd Osbourne., . “The; Vampire Bat,’"\a thrilling mysteryfilm to be showm an Wednesday and! Thursday, is tit® story of. the amazing adventures of an Austrian sleuth in trying to track, down a series of ghastly miliiyters in a little Austrian village, where the inhabitants fear a terriblte plague of bats.
Ox* the same programme is a film that is a musical treat for young and old alike, “Father O’Flynn.” It-is a rural ro,*
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Matamata Record, Volume XX, Issue 2021, 30 March 1939, Page 5
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