AT THE PICTURES
State: Now showing. Bob Hope in “The Princess and the Pirate.” in technicolour, with Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan and Victor McLaglen. Hope is seen as the boastful Sylvester The Great who delights In bloodcurdling threats of what he would do to a pirate if he ever met one, but when the ferocious Hook and his, band capture the vessel on which Sylvester and the runaway Princess Margaret are voyaging to Jamaica, the actor’s courage rapidly evaporates. Majestic: „To-night. Mondav and Tuesday, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.” With Spencer Tracy. Van Johnson. Phyllis Thaxter and Robert Walker, this is a great love story, and one that is presented in a most appealing manner. Each member of the cast offers an excellent interpretation of an important rote. There will also be a special support film showing the rescue of a bomber crew from the New Guinea jungle last May. Wakefield Theatre screening next Saturday, and Mapua next Tuesday, “Marriage on Ice.” Sonja Henie and John Payne starred in an excellent musical icetravaganza with comedians Jack Okie and Sterling Holloway.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 1 December 1945, Page 2
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