FAST-MOVING COMEDY-DRAMA

Evening Star, Issue 21752, 21 June 1934, Page 1

FAST-MOVING COMEDY-DRAMA

ATTRACTIVE PICTURE. FOR STRAND ‘ Cross Country Cruise,’ the longheralded picture which commences at the Strand to-morrow, is set in the vast expanse of America’s ribbon-like highways and its throbbing cities and scenic points en route. The action, principally, embraces the lives of five people in a fast-moving story whose principal ingredient is comedy, but which also bares love, hate, and revenge through to the high-point of a murder—picks them up later for a solution of the crime and climaxes in a land : :id air pursuit of the killer’s escape with the heroine. When a motion strikes in Hollywood it apparently strikes in several places at once. Some time ago a studio, decided to make a picture, the scene of which would he laid on a trans-Continental bus. Almost simultaneously, two other studios announced plans to make a “ bus ” picture. Then began a race, not of buses, hut of studios. It was a race to see which could first have its picture ready for release. Universal won, so that ‘ Cross-country Cruise,’ its “ bus ” film, arrived in New Zealand first. The locale of ‘ Cross-country Cruise ' is a throbbing terminus of a transcontinental bus line. The voice of the starters is heard above the din and clatter of people scurrying—buying tickets, settling last-minute affairs, exchanging fond good-byes. ( Twenty people of widely different temperaments and ideas, together in a great passenger service car on the long trip, form the basis of the plot theme. Plenty of excitement and romance pervades the film, which should prove popular fare.