REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 204, 31 August 1935, Page 11

REGENT THEATRE

“WEST POINT OF TILE AIR.” Wallace Beery has his best role to date in “West Point of the Air,” tho sensational and spectacular film of life at a great aviation field of the American army, coming to the Regent. Theatre to-day. West Point is the American Sandhurst where young officers learn the outlines of army knowledge, and West Point of the Air is therefore a flying school for the United States Army Aviation Corps, where the flying cadets go through the various phases of their training under experienced eyes. Seldom has a flying film been so packed with action as this picture; from the beginning it reveals I tho perils which have to be faced in iorder to conquer the air and the j strongly-doveloped theme, which is a I young cadet’s mastery of his aero--1 i plane and himself nt the same time, is worked out in situations of danger and i romance. Wallace Beery, perhaps the 1 I favourite of the older actors of the [screen, plays the part of an old ser- ’ Jgeant, father of a cadet flying officer 'land a man whose life dream it has been Io see his boy an aviator. That “j dream is oalv realised after a series of •'disasters, thrilling air adventures, ' rescues, and sacrifices. It comes true ; in a series of spectacular events, with ■ I the absorbing and adventurous career ' of flying cadets revealed in every dc- | li.il and with humour and drama ever hand in hand, in the big cast the piinI eipal players are Robert I Maureen James Glcasoy. j and Rosalind Russell, an*! nil are k»l rnirable in their parts. The supporting bill includes the best Thelma Todd Patsy Kelly comedy to date, repealing iheir side-splitting antics in a hospital, a coloured cartoon of the cheerful Bosko, ami the latest newsreels.