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ST, JAMES THEATRE Starring Wallace Beery, “Big Jack” will open at the St. Janies Theatre to-night. Laid in typical Beery country, the American frontiers of the early 1800’s, the story casts the star as an infa< mous cut-throat whose robber gang terrorises the countryside. When, during one of his raids, Big Jack is shot in the leg, he saves the personable Dr. Alexander Meade from hanging so that the latter may remove the bullet. Happy with' the outcome of the crudely performed operafion, Big Jack is determined to keep Meade with him as his personal physician, but the doctor has other ideas. He has devoted his life to medical research, a study which requires the use of cadavers. Forced to rob from an isolated graveyard in order to experiment on the bodies, he is considered a monster in that enlightened era. Apprehended, he is about to be strung up for the second time just as he is about to perform and abdominal operation. But Big Jack and his bandits hold off the enraged citizens until the operation is finished and the doctor acclaimed a hero. Big Jack dies of bullet wounds fired by the citizens but dies happily for “science.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 111, 23 February 1950, Page 7
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202CURRENT FILMS Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 111, 23 February 1950, Page 7
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