AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. HARRY CAREY IN “THE RAW LANDS.” Apparently bootlegging is not just :i recent innovation of the post-prohibi-tion (lavs in America. The fact that it is an old institution and lias always . carried with it blockades, pistol duels and hi-jnckers, was discovered in tile making of the Hunt Ktromberg supervised production “Tile Rad J.ands,” which opens at the Princess Theatre on Friday. The basis of the plot centres around a half breed renegade . wua smuggled liquor to the Indians around Fort .Summer, that they might be easily excited and induced to attack and wipe out the little garrison ol pioneers. Further, lie supplied them with ammunuitiou that they might accomplish their task more easily. The manner in which this bootlegger operates and the harm he is aide lo do in the little settlement is told in a thrilling and forceful manner in this Western spectacle made under the direction of Dell Henderson. His mode of operation is much the same as the ways and means used by bis In-others of the present day. in supplying their trades with the contraband liquid. The cast includes* Harry Carey. Trilby Clark, Wilfred' Lucas. Gaston (Hass, Lee Shumway and .Joseph Hickson. The picture was released through Producers’ Distributing Corporation. The first chapter of the new serial “Strings of Steel.” starring William Desmond, will also he shown and a special two-reel comedy.