REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 14, 17 January 1936, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“THE LAST OUTPOST” “The Last Outpost,” now showing at the Regent Th-eatrc, is a veiy worthy successor to that most popular romance, “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.” As the handsome commander of an armoured car squadron who is captured by the enemy, and subsequently helps to deicat a native uprising and avert a flank attack on Mesopotamia, Cary Grant is admirably cast. Claude Rains acts the part of the British intelligence officer out standingly. The third side of the strange triangle, the nurse, is played by Gertrude Michael. The New Zealander, Colin Tapley, has a prominent part. “The Crusades’’ The splendour, savagery and romance of the old world come to the screen at the Regent Theatre to-morrow in Cecil B. de Mille’s latest production, “The Crut-ades.” The film deals with the romance of Richard the Lion-Heart, his decision to lead an English army to Jerusalem, despite his lack of Christian faith, his feud with Philip of France, and romance -with the beautiful Berengaria of Navarre. The brutal soldier’d, wedding which Richard gives his bride, the struggle he later makes to win her love, ami the scenes of battle and adventure thorugh which his crusading adventure lead him. Richard i«? ably played by Henry M iicoxon, Loretta Young has the appeal ing role of his Queen, and the rest of the gigantic cast is headed by lan Keith as Saladin, C. Aubrey Smith as the hermit who rouses Europe for the Crusade, C. Henry Gordon as Philip Ot France, Katharine de Mille as his sister Alys, Alan Hale, William Earnum and other famous actors.