Double Feature At Regent Theatre

Northern Advocate, 26 January 1939, Page 5

Double Feature At Regent Theatre

Amusements

Rapid-fire action crammed with thrills and laughs is a thumbnail description of “One Wild Night,” principal feature of the double-star bill which commenced its Whangarei showing at the Regent Theatre last night.

The town of Stocktown boasts that it has no crime, but in rapid order three of its most important citizens vanish into thin air. There are no clues, no footprints, and no bodies.

“They can’t do this to me,” s&ys the chief of police, who gets even more rattled when his son, fresh from a criminology school, gets to work to solve ' the mystery, by scientific methods.

A pretty girl reporter whose vivid imagination gets her fired twice a week, helps follow up a trail of marked bank notes which sees half the town held under suspicion in a screamingly funny sequence, and the film races to a weird climax in a deserted mill, where the missing men are found under surprising circumstances.

June Lang and Dick Baldwin head the cast, with Andrew Tombes and Sidney Toler adding to the fun. . Jack Randall, singing cowboy, appears with the “Bar B Boys” in the second feature “Where the West Begins,” a prairie gtory of thrills and music, with Lynne Reed taking the feminine lead. The film revolves- round Randall’s efforts to prevent Miss Reed’s ranch from falling into the hands of an unscrupulous criminal.