AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 2

AT THE PICTURES

Regent: Now Showing. Guest Night doubt* nature The Last Express” and “Society Smugglers.” In the first feature a new colourful and romantic detective chraacter is brought to the screen by Kent Taylor. As Duncan Mac Lain. private sleuth who pursues beautiful blondes as fearlessly a* he tracks down killers. Taylor ferrets out a murderer from a collection of a doz.cn suspects, while solving one of *be most puzzling cases. In “Society Smuggler T men work overtime to plug leaks In th« customs lines of all countries. Preston Foster.' Irene Hervey and Regis Toomey portray Department of Treasury Undercover operatives in the film. Fred Keating. Walter Woolf King and others act a* their outside-thc-law opponents. Majestic.—New showing “Dr Cyclops.* The five main characters in thl* film undergo horrifying experience*. In his laboratory “high in the Peruvian Andes. Dr Cyclops (Albert Dekkcr) perfected a machine that will reduce human beings to midgets only 14 inches in height, yet preserving all their faculties. To his i laboratory come five travellers. Janice j Logan. Thomas Coley. Charles Halton Vlc--1 tor Kilian. and Frank Yaconelli. Dr. i Cyclops chooses them as victims for his diabolical experiment, and places them j l>efore his machine. "Dr Cyclops” is filmed in technicolour. An interesting and varied list of supporting films includes the latest Air-Mail Nfews. State To-night and Thursday: Musical C omedy "Too Many Girls” and “I’«n Still Alive” a Thrilling Drama. The comedy presents a streamlined version of the famous ; Broadwav musical hit of the same name. I It features Lucille Ball. Richard Carlson, Ann Miller. Eddie Bracken Frances Langford the Cuban sensation. Desi Arnaz, and Hal Leßoy Bracken. Arnz and LeHoy are among the many personalities trausi ferred from the cast of the stage producjtoin to the screen version Eight of the j most popular of the show’s hit songs and a series of Its spectacular dances enliven I the film In “I’m Still Alive." there are | a dozen or more of Hollywood’s best- ! known daredevils The story is a behindj the-scenes tale of Hollywood itself, the romance of an imperious film star (Lind* , Hayes) w ith a dashing stunt-flyer (Kent I Taylor) I* reveals a facet of filmland life brand new to picture-goers.