MUNICIPAL THEATRE
OOUBLE FEATURE BILU At the Hastingis Municipal Theatre to-night there is a film that is best described as a borabardment of thrills. "The Last Journey'' is, without question, the finest railway drama yet produced. It will keep you on the edge of your seats with excitement and make you gasp as thrill follows thrill. Writen' specialJy for tlic scrcen by J. Jefi'erson Farjeon, the story concenis a group of pcoifie travelling on au
express train. The engine driver, who is due to retire, becomes temporarily insane when he suspects his wife of infidelity. He takes out the express determined to hurtle it to destruction. "Barred Windows," the new Warner Bros. mystery melodrama, is the second feature at the Municipal Theatre today. The picture, based on a story by Jonatlian Finn, is said to be one of the most exciting ever screened, with a gun battlc between dope runners and police, a penitentiary riot sccne, two murders withift the prison walls and a jailbreak. Despite its melodramatic flaVour the picture is not without its romance, tho love interest being developed between a star reporter covering the crimes and the seeretary of a reformed racketeer, the latter being slain in his cell beeause he refused to join in a scheme of dopo runners.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 120, 7 June 1937, Page 10
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