MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 205, 31 August 1936, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“THE UNGUARDED HOUR” An enthralling drama which tells of a crisis in the lives of a prominent young English lawyer and his beautiful wife, “The Unguarded Hour,” screening to-day at the Majestic Theatre, grips the audience from start to finish. As the lawyer in the running for the attorney-generalship, Franchot Tone is most convincing. Loretta Young makes him a ve;y lovely and vivacious young wife. As the third angle of a, for once, innocuous family triangle, Roland Young is the perfect mutual friend of husband and wife. That the lawyer’s lady is indeed the right sort of wife is shown at the outset, when, approached by a blackmailer who explains that he has letters sent by her husband to his wife during the course of a love affair some years before, she buys back the letters for £2OOO and burns them without reading them. She realises that, if the previous affair comes out in the Press, his hopes of the attorney-generalship, the goal of his ambition, will never be realised. In carrying out the complicated conditions laid down by the blackmailer, however, she finds herself in a position in which she is the only witness who can save a man on trial for murder. Her husband is prosecuting in the case. A further twist is given by the murder of one of the blackmailers shortly after they batten on to her husband, in circumstances which point to him as the murderer. It is left to his own keen intelligence to extricate himself from the web of circumstantial evidence. The supports include a Laurel and Hardy comedy, in which the two are at their best, a Pete Smith sports feature, and of special interest is a film which shows in full detail of the alleged attempt on the life of King Edward. Amid scenes of martial pageantry the King is shown presenting new colours to the famous Brigade of Guards.