REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 284, 4 December 1935, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“FOG OVER ’FRISCO"’ There are mystrey dramas and romantic dramas, but usually one element is almost completaly subordinated to the other. In “Fog Over ’Frisco,” the melodramatic mystery thriller which conies to the Regent Theatre today, thrills and suspense are blended with love and romance with such a nicety as to form a most unusually entertaining picture. First National has effected a rare combination of entertaining features in a single production. The picture gets off to a swift start and the action never slows up lo the final smashing climax. There is thrill upon thrill, including a mysterious disappearance of a wealthy society girl, a kidnapping, two murders and a sucide, a gun battle in which the master mind of a band of interna- ■ tional bond swindlers is killed, a stirI ring chase and a hand-to-hand battle I on the wharfs of San Francisco Bay. I The suspense, is carried through increasI iugly high pitched scenes to the very I end. Bette Davis heads an impressive I east otf players, in a new role for her, I that of a society girl who joins the I band of crooks partly for love of the I master mind, partly for money, but I mostly for the thrill and excitement I of the game. Donald Woods and MarI garet Lindsay are an unusually pleasI i n g I )a^r °f screen lovers in the roman- | tic leads. Lyle Talbot as the snobbish I and somewhat weak and cringing soI ciety man who is under the thumb of I the ”lady gangster,” gives a smooth I performance, while Hugh Herbert, in I the role of a picture snatcher, furI nishes the needed comedy relief. Robert Hale, the great stage favourite of Gaiety Theatre days and star of many a London musical comedy hit, makes his screen debut in Warner Bros.’ First National production of “What Happened to Harkness,’’ also on the Regent Theatre programme, and proves | that he has just as delightful a personality on the silver sheet as before the footlights.