THE REGENT.

Wairarapa Age, 5 May 1934, Page 2

THE REGENT.

“NIGHT FLIGHT.”

“Night Flight,” which comes to the Regent Theatre to-day, when it will be screened at matinee and evening performances, is credited with a thrill, a verve and an authenticity which make it a definitely new achievement in the realm of aviation pictures. The story, by a flyer, Antoine de Saint-Exup-ery, tells grippingly of incidents in the running of a big air mail company in South America; the same company for which the author flew for several years. It has been put on the screen with complete sympathy and accuracy by a director-flyer, Clarence Brown. The tale concerns John Barrymore, an air mail company manager, whose creed is that the mail must go through; Robert Montgomery, the pilot on the trans-Andean run; Clark Gable, shooting northwards through a terrific storm from Patagonia, and Helen Hayes, G'able’s worry-distracted wife. Subordinate plots bring out excellent work from Myrna Loy, William Gargan, C. Henry Gordon, Leslie Fenton and others. Lionel Barrymore, as the shiftless, easy-going inspector of planes, is a perfect comedy foil to his stern brother. The story cuts back and forth from Gable, in his storm-battling plane; to Barrymore, tense in his office; to Helen Hayes, frantic over unfavourable wireless reports. There is great suspense to scenes showing the gasoline gauge of Gable’s plane dropping lower and lower, until finally it registers “empty”—with no gronnd in sight through the thick storm clouds. There is an unusually fine musical background, the work of Herbert Stothart, co-composer of 11 Rose Marie.” Stothart has achieved a “symphony of the air” in the musical effects. Seats mav be reserved' at Perry’s ’phone 2496.