TWO BRIGHT COMEDIES

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 833, 5 August 1933, Page 24 (Supplement)

TWO BRIGHT COMEDIES

Grand has “ Pardon Us ” and “ Shipmates.” Two superlatively good pictures are on the same programme at the Grand Theatre to-day. for both ” Shipmates ” (Robert Montgomery) and “Pardon Us,” with that priceless comedy team, Laurel and Hardy, are being screened. Each film is entertainment of the best type. “ Shipmates,” which stars Robert Montgomery, is a picture with a charming though conventional plot. The hero, who is just an ordinary sailor on an oil tanker, falls in love with an admiral’s daughter, meeting her when he is masquerading as an oil magnate from Brazil. ‘‘ Pardon Us ” is a Laurel and Hardy comedy. They are oast as two aspiring “ beer barons ” in Prohibition America trying to make their fortunes with fifteen gallons of ” hick ” beer. Mistaking a policeman for a tram conductor, they try to sell him a bottle, but he sells them—to the police court. Off to gaol they go. And what they do there is just one big laugh! Escape: recapture: a prison riot; a pardon, and a final request to the governor “ if they could’ take his order for a couple of cases ”! Among the well-known supporting players of “ Pardon Us ” are June Marlowe, Wilfred Lucas, James Finlayson, Walter Long and Stanley J. Sanford.