WORKMEN are going flat out to finish Kidderminster's first cinema in more than two decades for tomorrow's grand opening.

The Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn thriller, The Interpreter, is set to be the first film shown by The Warehouse Cinema in Green Street when the lights go down at 5.30pm.

Tradesmen were this week finishing the foyer entrance and the upstairs lobby area as film fans held their breath for the long-awaited return of the silver screen to the town and Wyre Forest.

The four-screen cinema is also scheduled to show Will Smith comedy, Hitch, and 1950s drama Vera Drake. Children's movies, Robots and Valiant, will also be screened for the first evening and throughout the following week.

The cinema has been bankrolled by Kidderminster solicitor, Simon Swaffield, who said he was looking forward to finally opening the doors to customers after a series of delays.

He explained: "It will be such an immense relief and, I think, very enjoyable. It was quite something to sit down and actually watch a film here."

As the carpets were being laid and the cinema seats installed, Mr Swaffield said the building "still looks like a grotty warehouse. I like that and then you come in and it has a contemporary feel".

The smallest screen, with 28 seats, would not be ready straightaway, said Mr Swaffield. The other screens comprise 107, 100 and 65 seats.

He also unveiled a minibus, which could be used if filmgoers were stranded without public transport when the evening's final credits rolled.

"If people are genuinely stranded after the last bus then we will take them back," he said.