ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 February 1933, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

“THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME” MAJESTIC NIGHT Such a test of whether love rules tlie head as well as the heart in time of peril, forms a basis for the dramatic story of “The Most Dangerous Game,” RKO Radio Pictures’ strange and terrible production which screens to-night at the Majestic Theatre. A society girl and a wealthy young sportsman are shipwrecked on an island in the Caribbean. They find a half-crazed Russian Count and his servants and bloodhounds the only occupants of the one house on the island. Installed as his guests, the shipwrecked pair discover that this madman, bored with the thrills- of Big game killing arid living only for the excitement of limiting, has turned from pursuing animals to Hacking and slaying men. He obtains his victims by changing the channel lights near the fatal rocks of his shores, and causing passing ships to pile up in wreckage. Hospitably entertained when they first seek refuge with him, the pathetic survivors of these wrecks are fattened for the kill, and then sent out into the jungle to be hunted down like beasts. The boy and girl learn of this murderous mania of their host shortly after they arrive, and the problem the young sportsman faces is whether to take his chances alone, pitting his hunting 'skill against that of the madman, or to take the girl with him to risk the chance of death by his side. The deadly outdoor game of chess these characters play —the young hunter and his girl against their demented host—provides the plot of this fantastic yet gripping tale. “SKY BRIDE,” REGENT, TO-NIGHT Stephens Roberts, recently appointed Paramount director, recently completed his first full directorial assignment in the production of “Sky Bride,” which comes to the Regent Theatre to-night This is a modem story of aviation motivated by a gripping theme of love and adventure ,in which Richard Arlen, Virginia Bruce, Jack Oakie, Charles Starrett and Robert Coogan play the leading roles. The story has a rich melodramatic flavour. Arlen, as a stunt flyer for an air circus, loses his nerve alter a crash that killed his partner. He is taunted by another flyer as being “yellow.” This stings him into a desperate effort in which he saves the life of Robert Coogan, and also wins the admiration and love of his sweetheart, Virginia Bruce. Director Roberts is a former Army aviator and did stunt and air circus flying after the war. Since 1922, he has been a scenario writer and director of short subiects.'