REGENT TALKIES

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 33, 1 December 1937, Page 3

REGENT TALKIES

TO-NIGHT. “THE FLYING DOCTOR.” Australian film production has come into its own. With international stars heading- the cast, expert British technicians behind the production, and a story no true Australian can fail to appreciate, “The Flying Doctor” comes to the Regent this evening, starring Charles Farrell, with Mary Maguire, and a magnificent supporting east. The film is billed as Australia’s supreme screen achievement. It justifies the claim! “Made in Australia” is a trademark of which we may now be prouder still, for “The Flying Doctor” was filmed entirely at Pagewood, Sydney, and in various countryside locations in New South Wales. The story has for its theme two dramas. Sandy Nelson (Charles Farrell)) is a wanderer. Casual, tireless, incurably restless, ever on the look-out for wider horizons, he typifies the Australian advanturer; and he is a man whom none could fail to like, and trust. By chance he meets little Jenny Rutherford (Mary Maguire), and before his time spirit, momentarily drugged by the sweet romance, can re-awaken to assert itself, he is married to her. But the eagle cannot be pinioned, He disappears, and after vicissitudes in Sydney, working at casual jobs, and fighting for a. crust in the wrestling ring, he heads for out-back again. And this time he is lucky. He and his little pal, “Dodger” (Joe Valli, strike gold. The story of Sandy’s love is interwoven with the drama of the Aerial Medical Service. The Flying Doctor (James Raglan) who has Cloncurry as his base, is Sandy’s friend, and their lives are inevitably linked by an intriguing twist of fate.