STATE THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26027, 15 December 1945, Page 4

STATE THEATRE

A VIVID MELODRAMA Presenting a vivid picture of the sinister activities of Japanese saboteurs on-the Pacific Coast in the days before Pearl. Harbour, “ Betrayal from the East ” opened at the State Theatre yesterday with Lee Tracy and Nancy Kelly starred. The film marks Tracy s return to his screen career after two years in the Army, and gives him the role of an ex-soldier \yho engages m perilous counter-spy work for Army Intelligence. Miss , Kelly is cast as a girl operative assigned to work with him in obtaining supposedly authentic plans of the Panama Canal defences for selling to the enemy. The exploits of these two in Los Angeles and the Canal Zone comprise the stirring features of the plot. Tracy and the dynamic Miss Kelly turn in fine performances, and Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Hugh Hoo, and Abner Biberman portray the four ' principal Japanese roles in convincing fashion. Box plans are at the theatre and Begg's.