Sunday Post - 01.09.1940, Qupperneq 3

SUNDAY POST
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This week at the Cinema.
Two First-Class films.
„Jamaica Inn” at the Gamla.
This is a superb film. Charles Laughton
(was never better cast than as Squire Pen-
gelien in Daphne Du Maurier’s thrilling
story of the wild Cornish coas* a hundred
years ago. Ex-Regency buck, Justice of the
peace, witty, autocratic domineering, the
Squire is a connoisseur of beautiful things
— and beautiful women. But there is another
side to his life, as he says “you cannot
gamble at White’s club for twenty years
for nothing". Just what this other side is
remains a mystery until lovely Maureen O’-
Hara comes as an orphan to stay with her
Aunt at Jamaica Inn and then — well let
it remain a mystery until you see the film.
Robert Newton is the hero — or rather
the Good Boy of the piece for Laughton is
always the hero of all his films — while
Leslie Banks as the Innkeeper does some
energetic wife-beating and generally gives
a good performance. Emlyn Williams, suc-
cessfully transformed from a virtuous
Welshman into a rascally Oornishman car-
ries his ear-rings and slits his throats like
a true pirate, while Basil Radford (of
“Lady Vanishes” fame) is excellent in a
small part.
The performances are at 7 and 9 and as
this cinema is bound to be even more
crowded than usual it is advisable to book
early.
GAMLA BIO
JAMAIC A INN
with
Charles Laughton
Mauren O’Hara.
Leslie Banks.
Nightly 7 and 9 p. m.
„Dark Victory” at the Nyja.
If you feel you can stand 90 minutes of
tragedy then here is one of the best tragic
films Hollywood has produced. Bette Davis
is the beautiful society girl condemned to
blindness and death, George Brent the hand-
some specialist who, unable to save her,
keeps the truth from her and arranges to
marry her in this film which had such
tremendous succes in England.
The drama is intensified when Bette
finding her fiance’s office emty chances
to see on his desk the report which gives
her four months to live before blindness and
certain death.
Leaving her lover she flings herself into
finding her fiance’s office empty chances
more parties in which Humphrey Bogart
plays a leading part. How she tires of this
life and eventually finds peace is the story
of her „Dark Victory". Geraldine Fitz-
gerald play’s the part of Bette Davis’ girl
friend while the supporting cast indudes
Ronald Reagan and Henry Travers.
NYJA BIO
DARK
VICTORY
with
BETTE DAVIS
and
GEORGE BRENT
Nightly 7 and 9 p. m.