PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 203, 29 August 1938, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“IN TERN ATION A L SETT LEM E NT.” The pent-up emotional excitement of the early days of the Japanese conflict with China, particularly as they affected Shanghai, are vividly depicted in “International Settlement" which is screening at the Plaza Theatre. Nothing demonstrating the terror of the first Japanese bombing raids has had quite the power of the scenes in the film. Against this background, the story of the complications affecting an American adventurer who becomes the intermediary in a gun-running escapade takes sudden dramatic turns. George Sanders, hero of that fine film “Lancer Spy,” again acts with admirable restraint as the adventurer, and Dolores del Rio, the lovely cabaret singer who attempts to shoot him, is as attractive as ever opposite him. June Lang is particularly good as a supporting player ,and John Carradine as the cadaverous Scotsman is appropriately sinister. The dramatic atmosphere of the film is very finely developed, and its climax in the bombing scene is most terrifying. Fine shorts complete an excellent programme. “Borneo” To-morrow An island of primitive ferocity, legendary with the terror of wild men and Dyak pirates, the jungle land of head-hunters and unexplored waterways, Borneo is the scene of the greatest capture of Martin Johnson’s career, which reaches its pictorial climax in Osa Johnson’s presentation of "Borneo" to be shown at the Plaza Theatre to-morrow. Photographing Illis land split by the Equator and sheltering in its forbidden depths marvels strange to man, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson encountered tree-climbing fish, flying snakes, oysters growing on trees and the proboscis monkey, rarest of the rare and never before pictured by the movie camera. The associate feature will be “Every Saturday Night,” featuring June Lang and Thomas Beck.