PLAZA HAS "ALIBI.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 257, 29 October 1931, Page 3

PLAZA HAS "ALIBI.”

Flays about “ crooks ” have enjoyed a great vogue of late. Some have been satisfactory, and some have been decidedly good, fine examples of detective melodrama which enthrall and amuse at the same time as they mystify. Into the later category comes “ Alibi,” the talking picture now showing at the Plaza Theatre. “ Alibi ” tells of the mystery of two, indeed, three, deaths. It takes the celebrated Hercule Poirot, a French detective on holiday, to straighten out the tangle. The plot is sound and the treatment able, and there is a love story and a touch of relieving humour woven in to make the production a complete success. The programme is completed by news reels and comedy films. “ UNFAITHFUL.” Before marriage, she joined in the adulation the world gave to the man she loves—after marriage she knows that the hero-husband she married is unworthy of her love. Such is the tense situation which turns Ruth Chatterton from a lovely and loving bride into a reckless, thrill-seeking globe-trotter in her latest Paramount dramatic sensation. “ Unfaithful,” which comes to the Plaza Theatre on Saturday. Ruth Chatterton holds her audience spellbound, lifts it to heights of dramatic emotion, fulfils its every expectation, in the greatest portrayal she has given in all her remarkable screen career. Supported by suave Paul Lukas, the star who made " Sarah and Son,” " The Better Wife,” " The Right to Love.” three of the greatest pictures of the year, in “ Unfaithful ” clinches her right to the title of the screen’s first lady. She is beautiful, appealing, commanding, superb. She has retained her most surprising talents for this master picture. The story of “Unfaithful” is one of love and conflict and pride: of a husband who reveals himself faithless on his honeymoon; of a good woman whose wounded pride whips her to reckless actions which make her the most slandered woman in Europe.