“VICTORY”
ST. JAMES THEATRE Of all the *• villain ” roles Sir Cedric Hardwicke has played, his part in “Victory,” Paramount’s version of Joseph Conrad’s exciting novel, which heads the programme opening at the St. James Theatre to-day. is the most villainous. In his role of Mr Jones in Conrad's immortal story of adventure and romance in the Java seas. Sir Cedric is an English “gentleman” living by his wits When he is bored he is most dangerous. His comrades in crime, in the picture, are Jerome Cowan, as Martin Ricardo, a knifewielding cut-throat, and Lionel Royce, as a gorilla-like man, who slavishly follows Hardwicke’s bidding The trio, in the story, invade an island inhabited by Fredric March and Betty Field, stars in the picture, in the belief March has a hidden fortune. They terrorise the lovers, but are eventually outwitted and killed.
The supporting film is "Inside Information.” which stars June Lang and Dick Foran. Mary Carlisle and Harry Carey have the minor roles.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24716, 19 September 1941, Page 7
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