AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. TOM .MIX AND TONV— WEDNESDAY Tom Mix, starring as Tom Dane in ■Tlie Last Trail,” Fox Films’ version of Zanc (!ivy’s novel, makes Bon-Hur look like an amateur horseman. The film comes to the Princess Theatre on Wednesday. Hen proved himself the best drivei' oil the world’s most famous track, the Coliseum of Koine, but Ken was in a racing chariot, on a regular rate course, driving thoroughly trained racing horses with only one of the contending drivers determined to best him even at the cost of wrecking his chariot. Mix. in the rare which marks the concluding scenes in " The Last Trail,” drives four mustangs to a plunging, swaying stage about hair-pin turns of mountain loads and the driver of each of the other nine stages in the race is a desperado who lias received instructions from the leader of the gang to prevent Tom from finishing alive. It’s a race which no one lull Mix could have driven and any one else would have been ditched at the first hair-pin. according to those who saw the film taken. However, Mix gives the crowd a Ueu-Hur finish. The last of the desperado drivers has attempted to wreck Tom’s outfit. Tom’s .coach is badly damaged and apparently he is out of the race, but he climbs from the seat, pulls the king bolt and drops the body of the stage. He climbs on tbe front axle and drives home the winner by a narrow margin. The finish of the race does not end Tom’s troubles. The desperadoes see that they are beaten. They try to loot the express company’s safe and kidnap the owner’s daughter. Torn mounts Tony, bis I a limits horse, and overtakes tbe robbers. In a lighting finish be subdues l hem. rescues the girl and recovers the treasure. (armelita Geraghtv has the leading leliiiniiic role, and the others, in the east are Lee Shuinway. Oliver Kckhardt. A\ illiam Davidson. Frank S. Maguey, Robert Hrower, Frank Heal-and Jerry Madden. A topical, scenic, and comedy will complete the display. On Friday next Kin Tin Tin in " A Hero of the Rig Snows.”