OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 245, 17 October 1939, Page 9

OPERA HOUSE

11 ‘ DANGER ISLAND” AND s ‘-CRACKER.JACK” n :1 p L Mr. Moto getd mixed up in an international racket and finds the interna- £ I tional police on his trail in "Danger s I Island,” Twentieth Century-Fox's nev‘ e mystery thriller, with Peter Lorre a Moto, which opens to-day at the Opel a y House. The exciting story has its , locale in tropical Porto Rico, Uncle Sam's colourful island possession in the West Indies where American file rubs elbows with strange native customs and modern efficiency finds ttJ self confronted with the weird supcrJ slitions that hover about the ghosts J ’of the Spanish Main. In this vivid sel- - ‘ting the inimitable sleuth gets involveu 1 ; in a gigantic diamond smuggling case ’ i and a series of murders as breatii- | taking as they are baffling. At ter 1 many adventures the story ends on a 1 ‘ surprise climax in the course of which j a dead man points out the master ’ criminal who is head of the and perpetrator of the mystifying murders. Jean Hershoit. Amanda Dull. Warren Hymer, Richard Lane, Leon Ames and Douglas Dumbrille head the supporting cast. “Crackerjack,” starring Tom Walls and Lilli Palmer, is 1 the associate film. England is thrilled ’ by the exploits of a modern Robn: - Hood, a “man with a hundred faces,” ’ who robs the rich and gives to tiic . poor—“ Crackerjack.” Flying to Eng-l-land on a cross-Channel plane is mile lionaire Morelia, Jack Drake, and la- ; spector Bcnting. The rest of the past sengers turn out to be crooks and h force the pilot to land, after reliew o ing Morelia of most of his valuables, cl Once in London, Drake (who is really - “Crackerjack") disguises himself as .5 Fenwick Price, and gains entrance to i a big society party given by fl’ wealthy Humbolds, and by cleverly e substituting a fake necklace steak . the famous Humbold pearls. After he 1 has left, the party is held up by a gang led by Sculpie, and in the ensuing melee a man is killed. From thi.. point on the excitement is intense : s the picture works up to a thrilling climax.