AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 17 August 1944, Page 2

AT THE PICTURES

Commencing Friday, the screen’s * rama ° f . the men "»th the silver wings. Bombardier,” starring Pat O’Brien, Randolph Scott and Anne Shirley. Ameri--5 , fam ous secret weapon, the Norden bomb sight, has reached the screen in Bombardier,” which tells the stirring story behind the sight. Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott are co-starred as rival fliers, with the former as the courageous advocate of the Norden instrument and Scott as a reckless proponent of divebombing tactics. O’Brien impresses his superiors with the value of high-altitude bombing and is put in charge of a bombardier training school in New Mexico to test out his theories. Scott accompanies him. and the friendly rivalry of the two men carries on. along with an entertaining four-way romance, against the absorbing details of the training programme as the young students study and practise with the bomb sight. A daring Flying Fortress raid over Tokio. and a dramatic sacrifice, mark the cilmax to a gripping Majestic: To-night. Dead End Kids anr * Little Tough Guys in “Keep ’em Slugging,” and Jimmy Lvdon in “Henry Aldrich Swings It.” plus episode 4 of “Perils of N.voka.” Typical tingling, melodramatic action dominates “Keep ’em Slugging” in which a great metropolitan department store is the background. As employees of this institution, the boys have' new opportunities to reveal their resourcefulness in coping with the criminals. A free-for-all fight in a warehouse is declared to be one of the season's most furious cinema events. With Jimmy Lydon as the irrepressible Henry. “Henry Aidrich Swings It” brings him plenty of troubles but only musical ones. They centre around a 10,00-dollar violin belonging to virtuoso Fritz Feld, which Henry picks up believing to be his own. It isn’t long before he is disillusioned, but by that time he and his band have secretly played in a raided night club, and the precious violin is somewhere in the padlocked place.