MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 110, 26 May 1937, Page 15

MUNICIPAL THEATRE

DOUBLE FEATURE BILL A haunted lighthouse, a lunatio and a gang of wreckers who plot the destruction of ships. Into this hotbed of intrigue plunge two men and a daring woman. Their experiences, eerie and thrillingly suspenseful, will carry you along on the rapid stream of adventure. Buch is "The Phantom Light," starring Gordon Harker and Binnie Efale, which screens at the Municipal Theatre to-night. The novel properties of the story are finely supported by the convincmg atmosphere ihe picture presents of a lonely lighthouse on the rugged coast of Wales — an unusual setting 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, the .tjny, winking lights on distant cliffs, the something seemingly alive* in the whispering yirash of ihe sea, that spura imagination to/ liveliest 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 the screen as a two-fisted, virile, fighting hero of the lawless west. Adapted from the new best-seller 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.