STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1942, Page 6

STATE THEATRE

0 “CONFIRM OR DENY.” Played against a background of bomb-wrecked London in September, 1940, “Confirm or Deny,” which will be shown at the State Theatre tonight, is a thrill-packed story of a newspaperman who gives up the scoop of a lifetime for the love of a girl. “Confirm or Deny” is an exciting film with a theme sternly true. It revolves round, the question the world asks: “Did the Nazis set out to invade England and, if so, why did they fail?” Don Ameche, more happily cast than he has been in several gaily-coloured musicals, is the London correspondent of an American paper. Joan Bennett’s role is a Government teletypist who remains at her post under the most shattering circumstances, and Roddy McDowell the likable child of “How Green was My Valley,” is the boy. who died in a raid. But there are other great stars in the film —Londoners who took it on the chin in those grim days of 1940. One sees them in the shelters, laughing and joking, singing and still laughing—but never grumbling. Then one sees them wending their way through debris that once formed offices, dwellings, monuments; and still they said “Thumbs up” and “Chins up.” And still they smile. Meanwhile, Hitler had arrived at Calais to superintend the invasion of England. But the invasion did not take place. London still laughed and the earth in which they buried the little roof spotter was free earth.