MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 308, 31 December 1942, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

The hilarious film, "Pardon My Sarong,” starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, which lias been showing to packed "houses” for the past week, screens finally at the Majestic Theatre to-day. “Dive Bomber.” Commencing at the special 10.15 p.m. session to-night L\ew Years rJve) “Dive Bomber” will be the feature at the Majestic. There’s something thrilling in the air, ana Warner Bros, have dramatised it, photographed it in wonderfully natural Technicolour, and served it up under the title of "Dive Bomber,' with two of the screen’s most dashing heroes, Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray for its co-stars. Made with the co-operation of the United States Navy, "Dive Bomber’’ is the most gloriously exciting air drama the screen has yet given us. The superpilots who fly uncle Sam’s superplanes, the dive-bombers, are the neroes of this epic of the skyways, and theirs is a thrill-a-second drama. The tremendously high altitude, the terific rate of peed at which they descend upon their targets makes dive-bombing the most hazardous type of flying. The main theme of the story is the work being done by the flight surgeons to lessen the physical Hazards to the dive-bomber pilots. Frank Wead’s original story, which he adapted for the screen in collaboration with Robert Buckner, is strong dramatic material, closely-knit, building steadily and surely to its powerful climax. Max Steiner’s musical score is brilliant. Just as the Navy’s dive bombers fill the sky with America’s glory, the picture "Dive Bomber/* fills the screen with thrills.