REGENT THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25364, 23 October 1943, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

SPECTACULAR SEA DRAMA Linking three brilliant Hollywood stars, Robert Taylor, Charles Laughton, and Brian Donlevy, M-G-M’s " Stand By for Action,” which opened yesterday at the Regent Theatre, brings to the screen the most spectacular and exciting drama of the sea since “ Mutiny on the Bounty.” The picture tells the story of a gallant old destroyer, recommissioned and assigned to convoy duty in the Pacific, and its heroic crew. Taylor plays a young lieutenant and Donlevy his superior officer. With their men they fight off Japanese aircraft, stage a successful attack on a battleship, under a smoke screen, and bring a convoy safely into port. Charles Laughton, as an American admiral, has an address that for patriotism and inspiration recalls his famous reading of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. Its action laid almost entirely at sea on the destroyer, the picture provides many amazing and exciting episodes. Comedy is contributed by Walter Brennan as a veteran yeoman and Chill Wills as a petty officer. Richard Quine, Douglas Fowley, Marta Linden, Marilyn Maxwell, and Inez Cooper are among the principals. The box plans are at the theatre and the D.I.C.