KING GEORGE THEATRE

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 46, 26 April 1929, Page 5

KING GEORGE THEATRE

SATURDAY

"THE SHAKEDOWN"

"The Shakedown" a Universal Jewel production featuring . James Murray and Barbara Kent promises novel enter-

tainment for patrons of the King George

Theatre where this screening on Saturday.

picture will be

The story opens in a small town where a stranger a young man, had- come to stay and in a short time earned' a popular reputation as a: x prbmising bijxev. .A

show visits the town and offers apprize to anyone who can stay four rounds with the boxing champion, with the show. The young hero accepts; the ; challenge and a lot of local money is put up on him. He is knocked out and eventSj transpire that he is a part of a big scheme to swindle the townsfolk! He piioceeds :to another town to work up the scheme but there meets ; a .beautiful girl who makes him realise the meanness of fiis existence. Subsequent events *~ showing his fight to s prove 'himself worthy of the" girl of his heart provide a succession of fast moving sequences which makes /'The, Shakedown*' a picture of exceptional merit. The cast includes, in addition to James Murray and Babara Kena, George Kotsonaros, the champion wrestler. Wheeler Oakman, nine year old Jackie Hanlon and Harry Gribbon. The picture is a credit, to the directing abilities of Wm. Wvler.

Also Saturday

' ..WHEN DUTY CALLS"

to the King George Theatre on Saturday is the Erie Wasehneck production, "When Duty Calls" featuring Rudolf Rittner and Helga Thomas. The film which is being released by C.A.F. the Australasian distributors of the famous TJ.F.A. company in Berlin, is a gigantic story of the /firefighters. The story tells how an old man is discharged from the fire service on account of an injured knee received in a train ■smash. After failing, in a theory test, he is forced to find work elsewhere but it is when the theatre at which his daughter works catches fire that he proves that experience^ triumphs over theory. There is also a spice of love interest introduced into the picture when Lore, the daughter of the fireman, falls in love ■with the Lieutenant who caused her father's dismissal. Complications arise, but. in the end the two men snake hands.

■I This is a picture that lovers of action cannot afford to miss.

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday "THE BUSHRANGERV*-

Moviegoers have a unique treat in store for them at the King George Theatre on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday when Tim McCoy will appear in his latest starring vehicle "The Bushranger" a vivid romance of Australia's early days. This is the first all-Australian motion picture, produced abroad and its fidelity to local history is guaranteed by the fact that Reg L.l Snowy Baker and James J. "WWwiek head a select party of Australians who actefl as technical assist-

ants to the director. The story opens in, England) but Van Diemen's Land rapidly becomes the locale, followed by Ballarat and the adjacent country in the sequence where McCoy, having escaped from the convict settlement, becomes a notorious bushrangtr to find; breathcatching thrills, high adventure, romance and love in the Australian bush and all this absorbing action is unfolded ih typieaUy Australian country. Marion Douglas, formerly Ena Gregory, of Manly, N.S.W., plays the principal feminine role opposite while Dale Austen, " Miss 35few Zealand 1927," has the other feminine role* and both girls interpret tieir parts with the utmost skill. Frank Baker, brother of the famous Ausjbrajian sportsman, Reg L. Baker also appears w the cast, with Russe ISimpson anid other screen favourites. '