NEW FILM COMEDY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 2, 3 January 1936, Page 5

NEW FILM COMEDY

j REGENT’S RED SALUTE. !B A KI’.A,RA ST.WW'YCK STAI.’IIEH. i Something new in the field of film comedy is said to be presented in the Reliance production ‘Red Salute,” released through United Artists, which starts to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. An American critic has described it as *• a perfect blending of romance, action, suspense and uproarious tun.’ In her first comedy rule, Barbara Wlanvvyck is co-starred most effectively with that breezy young actor, Robert Young; and assisted by a. plut that ts unusually strong for a film of this type, a capable supporting cast, witty dialogue, ami beautiful scenic back grounds, they produce an entertainment that has already found wide support in America, and other countries. ■ ” Red Salute” tells the fresh ami en- I gaging story of Dim’ Van Allen, a ■ pretty, headstrong young university student whose socially ami politicall' j prominent, family is embarrassed by the publicitv which follows her madcap I escapades. When she is expelled from ’ the college because of her radical lean I ings, acquired from her association with a young man named Arner, wiih whom she fancies herseif in love, her | father, a colonel in the army, coerces | the girl into leaving the country. .Drue settles in a town near the Mexican border, but plans to return as soon as possible to her revolunliotiary sweetheart, she inveigles Jell: a young private in the American Army, into stealing a motor-car, and .they drive across tTTe Mexican border with the police in hot pursuit. The adventures and ditlic.ulties they encounter in the course of their flight keep the story spinning along at a brisk pace. “Good, honest fun” is how the critic of The British Film Weekly, described the Gainsborough production, “Roys Will Be Buys.” starring Will Hay, which will begin at the Regent next. Wednesday. Thai is true, but pulling it very mildly f for this is without doubt one of the most, hilarious films ever made in England, Taken from the famous Narkover stories by “ Beachcomber, ” thp plot deals with t he misadventures wTiich befall Dr. AleSmart (Will Hay) as the bewildered headmaster of a public school where all the, pupils are potential criminals. Il is a to the advantage of the entertainment that the star is on the screen almost the whole time, working off his gags in a way that cannot fail lo provoke roars of merriment —his disapproval of, and final conversion, t<>. gambling; his embarrassment at jneeting a pupil who knows much more about the lesson than himself, his cross-purposes argument with a boy who says. “How Hi is a. Chinaman”; and. funniest of all. his antics on ttie football field. Gordon Harker. Claude Danipier, Davy Bprnabv. ami Jommy Hartley are the other principal artists. [lost” is to commence al the Regent j Theatre. It is claimed for this picture that it is more than the equal of •Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” “Beau (teste, ” ‘ The Four Feat hers,' and other great films of the same type. An unusual romantic theme is interwoven with the main plot ami this makes “The Last Outjmst” a.s consistent h entertaining to women a.- it. certainly will be Io men. Set in the period ol the Great War and laid in the Near East and in Africa, the film captures the imagination with its s-tcrv of British courage ami daring. There are speeda'.-nlar scenes of deseit fighting, and thrill follows thrill in whirlwind sequence. Jhe three principals are Claude Rains, Cary Grant, and Gertrude { Michael. Each is excellently cast. Colin Taiplev is another name in the ! cast of particulai inl>ie.'l to Ni'w Zea- 1 l>and. The picture is on'* of Para- I mount's biggest productions fur the ; new season. | Shirley Temple i« to make French i versions of the pictures she stars in. 1 Wallace Beery and George Raft will i co-star in “The Citv God Forgot, - ' I . Helene Costello. widow of Lowell I Sherman, has returned to the screen. j I'a ra moi: tit lias taken up a. now op- 1 tin.i on the Mae West contract, the. I blomie star now working under an eight-hour-a day writing schedule on the screen play and dialogue for her ■ next picture, “Klondike Lou.” Frances Langford, sensational radio! blues singer appearing opposite George. Raft in Paramount’s comedy-drama, ‘Everv Night at Eight,” received £1 per week for her first professional work