“JACK AHOY!”
Naval Comedy Coming to
Regent.
Dancing Lady ” will be shown finally to-night at the Regent Theatre “Jack Ahoy!” Jack Hulbert s latest British comedy, will open at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. The picture provides many amusing situations, a romance, a dash. of thrill, and bril-liantly-photographed and impressive pictures of Britain’s naval might. This comedy cocktail, made to an approved and palatable recipe, is both sparkling and exhilarating. It has a good story (although stories don’t seem to matter much when Jack Hulbert is on the screen), of Jack, who enlists as a naval rating, falls in love with his commander’s daughter, and more by luck than judgment rescues both of them from pirates and also brings to safety a submarine the pirates have captured. Undoubtedly the outstanding episode in a film that provides any number of hearty laughs, is the submarine sequence. Hulbert hasn’t the haziest conception of how to work the thing, and to see the submarine turning turtle, or rising when it should descend, the while the pirates in a speedy, armed motor launch, are shel Hng it. is to witness one of the most diverting incidents in films for many a day. Box plans at the D.I.C.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20332, 15 June 1934, Page 3
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