MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 109, 25 May 1937, Page 5

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

DOUBLE FEATURE BILL A haunted lighthouse, a lunatic and a gang of wreckers' who plot the destruction of sliips. Into this hotbed Of intrigue plunge two men and a daring woman. Their experiences, eerie aird thrillingly suspenseful, will carry you along on the rapid stream of adventure. Sucli i's "The Phantom Light," starring Gordon Harker and Binnie Hale, which sereens at the Municipal Theatre to-night. The novel prqperties of the story are finely supported by the convincing atmosphere tho picture presents of a lonely lighthouse on the rugged coast of Wales — an unusual Betting in which most of the action takes place. It is this eerie remoteness, the cry of the gulls, the sigh of the wind, the fog wraiths drifting, ' tlio tiny, winking lights on distant cliffs, the something seemingly alive in the whispering wash of the -sea, that spurs imagination to liveliesfc anticipation of tragic happenings. Zane Grey's newest and greatest story of rip-roaring outdoor adventure, ^Thunder Mountain," is 'the second feature at the- Municipal and brings George O'Brien back to tho screen as a two-fisted, virile, fighting hero of the lawlens west. Adapted from the new best-seher novel by the Homer of America's plains, "Thunder Mountain" is an engrossing story of the Idaho gold rush, of a man who gambled on a woman's love and lost, but could not be downed.