ACADEMY THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXXII, Issue 8960, 24 May 1944, Page 2

ACADEMY THEATRE

—-♦ CURRENT PROGRAMMES

In John Brophy's "Immortal Sergeant," which will show at Hie Academy Theatre to-night, to-moriiow and on Friday, 20th Gentury-Fox brings to the screen the tirst stirring drama to come out of the blazing desert warfare which led to a British victory in Libya. Starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara, the act-ion-packed film was translated to the screen from Brophy's popular novel which, besides being the first to dramatise the adventure and courage of the embattled African scene, in effect set an exciting new story pattern for these unforgettable times. Brophy has written more than a story of action in the desert or an account of an heroic incident. With tense suspense, he constructed in sharp detail a story of average

men growing to the stature of heroes tinder an incredible strain which, as brought to the screen, becomes an epic of men under tire. Moreover, Ihe film has tender love scenes between Fonda and Miss O'Hara which reveal just where a soldier's thoughts lie when, as the foreword to the film says, "between periods of action the solitude of the desert makes the men think,"