STATE THEATRE
In a stirring film version of Alan Hynd’s authentic account of Japanese pre-Pearl Harbour activities on the Pacific Coast, “ Betrayal from the East,” which will be released at the State Theatre to-morrow, marks Lee Tracy’s return to the screen after two years in the army. Nancy Kelly shares stellar honours with Tracy, who portrays Eddie Carter, an ex-soldier who, in need of money, accepts a bribe from Japan for which he is ordered to obtain plans of the Panama canal defences. Secretly he reveals this scheme to army intelligence officers, who make arrangements to have Eddie deliver a set of obsolete but authentic-looking plans to his employers, and who also assign a girl operative to work with him. The Japanese suspect her, however, and prepare to murder her. How she escapes this fate, and helps Eddie on his mission, though at the sacrifice of her own life, leads up to the thrilling climax.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26025, 13 December 1945, Page 8
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