FINE COMEDY-DRAMA.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20503, 3 January 1935, Page 4

FINE COMEDY-DRAMA.

Robert Montgomery Has Lead in “ Hide-out.”

: “ Change of Heart ” will conclude its ! season at the Regent Theatre to-mor-I row night. Gay and philandering Robert Montgomery is cast as a criminal in his latest picture, “ Hide-out.” This fine comedy-drama will start at the Regent Theatre on Saturday. As “ Lucky Wilson, Montgomery is a member of a “ racketeering ” gang who blackmail successful cabaret owners into paying heavy tribute for “ protection.” "W it.h the characteristic thoroughness of Americans in exposing an evil that is peculiar to them, no phase of the activities of these super-criminals is glossed over in the picture. In spite of his busy “ business ” life, “ Lucky ’ Wilson finds plenty of time for women, and he is seen with a bewildering number in the luxury apartments and hotels of New York. His impudent insouciance makes him the more attractive in their eyes. But he is found out at last and falls into a police trap. He makes a dramatic escape in a fast car amid a fusillade of bullets. After a long drive into the country, he collapses and is taken to a simple country home, where he is nursed back to health. Here he meets the unsophisticated farmer’s daughter, Pauline (Maureen O’Sullivan). He becomes one of the family, and the romantic scenes are delightfully interspersed with humorous action and dialogue, chief of which comes from “ Lucky’s initiation to milking, harnessing horses, and feeding fowls. “ Hide-out is a particularly refreshing production by reason of the fact that the simple life of an American family engaged in farming is contrasted with the artificial riotous living of frequenters of Broadway and its night clubs. Box plans at the D.I.C.