STATE THEATRE
“MARCO POLO.” “The Adventures of Marco Polo” will be finally shown tonight. “SUNDOWN.” “Sundown.” which will be shown totmorrow night, is a drama of East Africa; not a film of damp jungle filled with the sinister throb of drums, but of the veldt, the giraffe and elephant country. It is the country, too, of widely-spaced British posts, where one sagacious commissioner, an assistant, and a platoon of native police, will govern numberless savages. In peace there is “miles and miles of nothing to do,” but war comes to the post that is the locale of “Sundown,” the Axis mysteriously providing the natives with large quantities of modern small arms in the hope of starting a prairie fire of insurrection. “Sundown” has something of the spirit of “Bengal Lancer,” of “Sanders of the River,” and of “Trader Horn.” Gene Tierney as the woman owner of a network of trading stores is good. Bruce Cabot is capable in the leading male part. George Sanders is a military officer, and Joseph Calleia is a friendly Italian.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1942, Page 6
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