ACADEMY THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8837, 28 October 1942, Page 3

ACADEMY THEATRE

CURRENT PROGRAMMES The attraction at the Academy Theatre to-night will be “49th Parallel,” a war-time adventure melodrama, describing the reception which awaits six members of a Nazi Üboat -crew who land surreptitiously at Hudson’s Bay, Canada, and set out to bludgeon their way to the American border. They meet with stern opposition at a trading post and a Hutteritc settlement and find more than their match in an English aesthetic and a Canadian soldier. Capture or death is the stern fate of them all. '

Columbia’s “Mystery Ship,” with Paul Kelly, Lola Lane and Larry Parks playing the leading roles, will be shown at the Academy Theatre to-morrow and on Friday night. Acclaimed as a thrilling melodrama, the film is said to move across the screen at mile-a-minute speed as one blistering climax follows another with machine-gun precision. The story, itself, is an unusual and timely one, dealing with government problems in deporting undesirable aliens and saboteurs. “Invitation to Murder,” the second picture, is said to be crammed with thrills and suspense, yet to be different in its treatment of. an exciting theme. The picture presents an answer to an ageless question—is there such a thing as a justifiable murder? Thomas Mitchell, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Lynn head, the cast of players. Mitchell plays the role of an elderly professor who learns that he has only six months to live and in order to benefit humanity decides to commit a “socially useful” murder.