MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 7

MAJESTIC THEATRE

"DODGE CITY.” “Dodge City,” a film about the period when the little Kansas (U.S.A.) town of that name was the roughest and wickedest community of the old west, and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland is to-day’s attraction at the Majestic Thestre. Produced by Warner Bros, in Technicolour, “Dodge City” is a spirited and authentic recreation of those hectic days in the 1870’s when the coming of the railroad to the little town at the northern end of the Chisholm Trail made it the leading cattle shipping centre of that era. Errol Flynn is depicted as the trail boss who has driven a huge herd of Texas longhorns up the Chisholm Trail and then, after his arrival in Dodge City, becomes the sherriff who cleans up the wild and wicked town. He is pictured as an Irish soldier-of-fortune who had become a Texas cowboy after fighting for the South in the American Civil War. Notable scenes in the picture include the stampede of a big herd of longhorns, a brawl involving moi’e than a hundred men in the biggest saloon and gambling hall of Dodge City—which is easily the most spirited battle of the sort ever filmed —and a tense and suspenseful gun battle in a railway mail car which ends with Flynn and two companions being locked in the car as it is set in flames. In the brilliant cast which supports Flynn and Olivia de Havilland are Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale, John Litcl, Henry Travers, Tenry O’Neill, Victor Jory, William Lundigan and Guinn “Big Boy” Williams. The production was directed by Michael Curtiz. DUCHESS THEATRE The dazzling romantic Sonja Henie, in a picture that winks and glitters with fun and romance, “My Lucky Star,” screening to-night at the Duchess Theatre, has all that is wanted in glorious entertainment, songs, music, dancing and laughs galore, supplied by the famous comedy team Joan Davis and Buddy Ebson. Richard Greene, who recently played the romantic lead in “Four Men and a Prayer,” plays opposite Sonja as a student at Plymouth College. Sonja performs six big ice ballets, including her magnificent “Alice in Wonderland.” Four of the new song hits are “This may Be The Night,” “You Pass In Love,” “I’ve Got A Date With a Dream” and “By a Wishing Well.”