WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 14, 9 October 1937, Page 14

WAIPAWA REGENT

"SWORN ENEMY" TO-NIGHT AND MONDAY Teeming with flesh and blood characters from all walks of life, swept up from the city streets into a cauldron of, dramatic circumstance — this is ' ' Sworn Enemy," a story of metropolitan crime . operations, showing at the. Regent, Waipawa, to-morrow and Monday. Headlining the cast are Robert loung. i as a son of the city'slums endeavouring , to go straiglit in a law career until the gang with whom he was raised kiJJs his brother. Florence Rice as a surgeon's daughter who proves the best detective on the speciai force, " Josepb Galleia as the smister Joe Emerald, ' crippled overlord of the racketa, sports lover and perverse philanthropist, a killer unknown even to his own lieutenats. Lewis Stone as Dr. Cattie, distinguished surgeon who spenda tweive, ; years in the. penitentiary oa a charge "framed" by Emerald. The plot depicts the struggle of a poor boy trying, to go straight until his, brother and employer are killed by the men with whom. ; he was raised; then follows his demon«iacal lust for revenge, The pace is ' swii't from the opening scene when, having landed his first job, he struggles with gang representatives who demand part of his salary .for "protection,'* to the final climax in the luxurious penthouse. of. the gang overlord,