AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 11 April 1945, Page 4

AT THE PICTURES

Majestic Theatre: Now showing, stirring drama of the desert. “Sahara,” with Humphrey Bogart, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Hughes and Bruce Bennett. Bogart plays the role of a sergeant who is commander of a tank and leader of a small group of Allied fighters who struggle through the treacherous sandy wastes of the desert in an effort to catch up with the British Army at El Alamein. The picture. which is said to be a vivid exposition of the life and death struggle of sturdy men fighting to survive, gives Bogart great scope. The film has an international flavour for the little band of soldiers, includes three Tommies, a British medical officer, an Australian, a South African, a Sudanese, a Fighting Frenchman, a boy from Texas and one from Brooklyn, an'ltalian prisoner who falls in line with his enemies and a German flyer who remains an enemy. State: This week-end, Samuel Goldwyn’s musical comedy hit “Up in Arms.” starring the new comedian, Danny Kaye with Dinah shore. Dana Andrews, Constance Dowling and the Goldwyn eirls in technicolour. How an indoor aviator becomes hero in the South. Pacific is the hilarious basis of “Up in Arms." A top favourite on Broadway. Kaye makes his screen debut as the perpetually worrying elevator operator who thinks he’s going to die almost any minute, but who nevertheless is drafted into the Army along with his buddy. The two and their army nurse girl friends sail for the South Pacific aboard the same transport, with the hypochondriac proving to be the greatest drawback the Army has ever encountered. However, when they reach the mythical island of Begoona and he is captured by the Japs he turns out to be a real hero. The result is riotous in the ex- ! treme. and it puts a clever ending to spar Wine and tuneful offering.