AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

•‘KNOCK-OUT REILLY.” FRIDAY. Starred in a fa.st-movi ug film of a young steel puddler whose ability with liis fists wins him fistic; fame and the girl of his dreams, Richard Dix arrives at the Princess Theatre on Friday. “Knoek-fmt Reilly” is the name of his latest Paramount screen effort, and it is reputed by those in the know to be tne most engrossing Dix offering ever. Reports from the large centres indicate an enthusiastic reception of the picture, and critics are putting it on a par with the “Quarterback,” his famous football film. As Dundee Reilly. Dix works in a steel mill, and on Saturday night goes out in search of a little recreation and romance. Although professing utter disregard of all girls, he is immensely flattered when ho receives a message purporting to he from .Mary Malone (Mary Brian), pretty entertainer in a cabaret that he and his friends frequent. The message invites him hack stage to meet her, and not knowing that this is a little joke of his friends, lie leaves his table and goes to her dressingroom. He finds there Killer Agerra (Jack Renault), champion pugilist, making advances to Mary, and without knowing who lie is, knocks him out. Later Agerra reciprocates b.v decoying Reilly to his gymnasium and heating him up. Reilly, looking for revenge, puts himself in the hands of Pat. Malone, Mary's brother, himself a former pugilist, lor training, and rapidly rises to gladiatorial eminence. Complications set in, and Reilly on the eve of a championship tight with Agerra, finds himself railroaded to prison for two years for felonious assault. How he manages to keep in condition, notwithstanding his confinement, and how on his release, he clears his name, and wins the girl and the championship, are unfolded in a series of dramatic'scones in which the light humorous touch of director Malcolm St. Clair is always evident. Events more rapidly to a smashing denouement in which Dix wins out in the end. A Topical and two-reel Comedy, also further chapters of the serial completes h fine programme on Friday.