Regent Theatre
TWO FEATURES TO-NIGHT “Stronger Than Desire’’ and “Blind Alley” will be screened at the Regent Theatre to-night at 7.45 p.m. and to morrow at 8 p.m. “Stronger Than Desire” features Walter Pidgeon and Virginia Bruce. Pidgcon plays a prosperous lawyer whose wife suspects him of a flirtation and retaliates with one of her own, to discover that she has been playing into tho hands of a blackmailer who threatens to compromise her. In a struggle over her letters he strikes her. She instinctively picks up a revolver on his desk, shoots him, and flees, to undergo inward torture whilo his wife goes to trial for murder, and her husband struggles to save her from the chair. The solution to tho crime and clearing of the situation comes in a dramatic episode in the courtroom after tho husband has found the clue which points to his own wife, then tho second clue which clears both women. “Blind Alley” is a powerful crime drama featuring Cluslier Morris, Ralph Bellamy and Ann Dvorak.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 180, 1 August 1940, Page 2
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