WAIPAWA REGENT
"WINTEKSET" TO-MOEEOW. Maxwell Anderson's grim and prof oundly moving draina of the underworld, "Winterset," screens at Waipawa on Wednesday. It is a truly great picture and high honours are due its makers for the daring contribution to the roster of modern masterpieces of the screen. The picture opens briefly with the electrocution of a highminded radieal for a crime that he did not commit. He leaves an infant son, and the boy grows to manhood possessed by the urge to clear "Ms father's name. Drifting into New York he is drawn into the sordid circle that hides the answer to lixs prayer. Drawn tliere also is the judge who condeinned his father. They find refuge in the cellar where lives one of the gang of the three who committed the murder. The other two trade him tlvere. Tliere, under tlio grim shadow of Brooklyn Bridge, the battle of wills is fouglit out. The casfc is of rarest excellence, and the charneters are made unforgettably real and compelling. Burgess Meredith and Margo fill t.lie two principal roles. Also showing is the full filin Story of the i Louis-Braddock fight, i
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 12
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191WAIPAWA REGENT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 12
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