THE REGENT.

Wairarapa Age, 7 May 1934, Page 2

THE REGENT.

“NIGHT FLIGHT.”

Many remarkable scenes of flight amongst the snow peaks of the Andes nnd elsewhere are-included in “Night Flight,” which is to be shown again at the Regent Theatre to-night. With its aviation thrills, the picture combines a dramatic story of the running of a big air mail company in South America. It has been put' on 'fhe 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, Gable’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 ground in sight through the thick storm clouds. There is an unusually fine musical background, the work of Herbert Stothart, co-composer of “Rose Marie.” Stothart has achieved a “symphony of the air” in the musical effects. Seats mav be reserved at Perry’s ’phone 2496.