AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVF.RYBODYS PICTURES, •'BI'LLDOG DRUAIAIOND” TO-NIGHT. Everybody's Pictures pro.sonfc this .Monthly nifxlit Supper's magnificent oirt urc story “Bulldog Drummond” featuring Carlyle Blackwell as Ca-.t. ii gh Drummond, the TJulltHT ,'v is based round C’apt. Hush Drummond -ponkirly known to his friends

■ *‘ jlul l,log” because of !>is tenacious and adventurous habits. He is a demobilised officer of the British Army, of independent means and feel ins: the want of excitement advertises in the "London Times” as {follows:—“Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious wo'uld welcome diversion. Legitimate if possible, but crime if of humorous description no objection. Incitement essential. Reply at once io Box X 10.” To his astonishment a young Indy, who turns out to he the sister of a great friend of his, replies io his advertisement. She implores bis aid to rescue her uncle, who is in the elutehes of a criminal gang who have for years been making use of him for their nefarious work in the role of forger, at which he, is a great expert. At first he is inclined to treat tlie whole thing as u joke hut finally decides to inve-iigato hv calling upon her suddenly at her uncle’s residence. Tt is here that ho moots the head of this gang, one Carl Petersen, an International crook and instigator of the various crimes that have baffled the chief dot"-fives of the world, and his eo-partnev Dr Lakington. who though c criminal, is also a. great analytical chemist and a. skilled medical practitioner. By this time Drummond’s friend.; have become somewhat anxious by his non-appearance and have set out. with the assistance of Scotland Yard, to find him. II is then comes the terrific climax to the picture in a battle between Scotland Van! and the remnants of tHo criminal gang. The charming love story which threads its way through the whole drama culminates in the marriage of Bulk lop; and Phyllis. Altogether Bulldog’s rescue of the girl he loves from the pitiless grasp of Petersen's gang is an epic in its intensify. It is super-heroic with climax that i t metrical.