Strong Drama Features At Regent Theatre

Northern Advocate, 17 December 1942, Page 2

Strong Drama Features At Regent Theatre

AMUSEMENTS

Drama of sacrifice and love, crime and hate, "Gentleman After Dark,” which opened at the Regent Theatre last evening combines an unusual story with subitc humour, intense suspense and fine acting. Brian Donlevy and Miriam Hopkins have the leading roles as a pair of high-class jewel thieves whose lives in crime are interrupted by the arival of a baby daughter. The wife consoles herself with their crime partner while Donlevy devotes himself to the baby. In his last jewel their before turning over a now leaf for the baby’s sake. Donlevy is betrayed by his wife and her partner but discovers the fact before he can be arrested. Killing the man. he decides to give himself up. reward money going to Preston Foster, a police officer, on the understanding that r.e will bring up the child as his own. Eighteen years later, with the child become a woman, Donlevy hears that the i girl's mother has returned and is blackmailing Foster, using the girl’s impending marriage into a wealthy family as a lever. Donlevy breaks gaol to settle the matter in his own way and his methods bring an absorbingly interesting story to a highly dramatic climax. Principal supporting film is “Poland Forever.” a documentary film dealing with Poland’s continuation of the fight for treedem since her borders were over-run by the Nazi invaders.