ST. JAMES THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25280, 17 July 1943, Page 6

ST. JAMES THEATRE

NEW CRIME THRILLER Shedding light on a little-known phase of police work, “Kid Gloves Thriller,” which had its first local .screening at the St. James Theatre yesterday, is enacted in a police laboratory. There Van Heflin and Marsha Hunt portray the work of a police chemist and his assistant in the unravelling of two murder mysteries. The story is built around the election of a mayor and a district attorney on their promise to clean up the city. Those responsible for their election, headed by Lee Bowman, discover they meant their promises. First the district attorney is taken care of, his. body being discovered in a lake. Heflin and Marsha Hunt, through clues found on the body, run the slayer to earth. The mayor then discovers Bowman’s connections with the underworld, and Bowman, afraid of exposure, plants a bomb in - the mayor’s automobile. Bowman works closely with Heflin and Marsha Hunt in search of the slayer, trying hard to pin the crime on a suspect , circumstantially tied to the case. Tricked by Heflin, a test of Bowman’s hair definitely links him with the crime. BoWman is unwittingly informed by Miss Hunt that Heflin knows the murderer, and attempts to kill his one-time friend. Frustrated, he is taken to gaoi as Heflin and Marsha wind up in each other’s arms. The box plans are at the theatre, the D.1.C., and Jacobs’s.