REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 44, 22 February 1940, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

“TROPIC FURY” It’s a wild adventure, all the way, when Richard Arlen and his buddy, Andy Devine, start up the Amazon River to the Guamo country of the jungles in Universal’s newest action drama, "Tropic Fury,” now showing at the Regent Theatre. Co-starred in this story of a fight against a foreign rubber monopoly, Arlen and Devine not only overthrow a dark empire and its Napoleonic ruler, but find time for romance with two girls from the opposite ends of the earth. The associate feature is “Torchy Plays With Dynamite.” “Pirates of the Skies.” Fast action played against a unique background, a novel love story, and more than the ordinary quantity of thrills and suspense are the highlight features of Universal’s ’Pirates of the Skies,” which will screen at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. Featuring Kent Taylor and Rochelle Hudson, the picture embraces the newest branch of the State law-enforcement departments, the air police. Taylor is seen as a flying officer, an “aircopper.” The thrills and suspense arrive when he unwittingly stumbles on the solution of many bold and mysterious robberies which have mystified the State police. Photographed over some of the roughtest terrain in Southern California, the Sierra Madre Mountains, this picture features a spectacular air-combat. One of the planes used, a Lockheed Orion, with a top speed of 250 miles an hour, and boasting 450 horsepower in its single motor, is the plane which, piloted by Paul Mantz, noted Californian aviator, finished third in the recent Bendix race. The other, a Spartan, is the fastest type of passenger-carrying sports plane. In the supporting roles are seen Lucien Littlefield in an excellent characterisation as the chief of the outlaws, and Marion Martin, Stanley Andrews, Guy Usher and Regis Toomey complete the roster of players. The associate attraction is "Gangsters’ Boy.”