TUDOR THEATRE

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3765, 2 October 1940, Page 5

TUDOR THEATRE

"THE OKLAHOMA KID" MAIL-COACH DRAMA NEXT

Screening finally at the Tudor Theatre .thijS: evening will be, “The Oklahoma Kid,” which features. ;

James Cagney, the likeable bandit in the title role. Supporting players include Hurnphrey Bogart and Rosemary Lane. The main feature tomorrow and Friday will be “Stage to Chino,” an absorbing story of the old frontier, with George O’Brien in the leading role. The plot revolves about a new theme for such films —the adventures of the postal inspectors who supervised mail-carrying on the stage-coach routes which traversed the Western deserts and mountains, bringing passengers, supplies and news to the remote communities. The noted outdoor star plays the role of such an inspector who discovers crooked work going on on a stage line owned by a young girl. As it is part of his duty to investigate anything pertaining to the U.S. mails, he gets a job as a driver on the line in question and soon finds himself involved in a complicated plot aimed at wrecking the company. How he unmasks the criminals behind the scheme, saves the line, and the mail contract for its beautiful owner and brings the crooks to justice ajfter a colourful struggle, makes up the basis of this actioncrammed picture. O’Brien is perfectly suited to his part, and Virginia Vale, for the fifth consecutive time, plays opposite him as the stage-line owner. Hobart Cavanaugh, Glenn Strange, William Haade, Roy Barcroft, Ethan Laidlaw and Carl Stockdale have the chief supporting roles. Screening on the same programme will be “The Defence Rests,” with Edward Ellis and. Anita Louise heading the cast.