AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

“HANGMAN'S HOUSE”

TO-NIGHT,

John Ford, Fox Films director, has added another notable photoplay to his list in “Hangman’s House,” a magnificent Fox production which comes to the Princess Theatre tonight. Victor MeLaglen plays the steilar role of Citizen Hogan, while June Collyer and Larry Kent have the featured romantic leads with Hobart

Boswortli and Earle Foxe in strong

supporting parts. The picture may be ?*■ rated as one. of the most spectacular Ford has made in his seven years’ association with Fox. In addition to the principals, D’Arcy Corrigan and many other outstanding players are in important roles. Based on Donn Byrne’s best-selter, “Hangman’s House” is typically Irish and, tin common with virtually all pictures directed by John Ford, is packed with human interest and bristles with action. Briefly the story is that of an adamant old Irish Ciiief Justice, who, as “Jimmy the Hangman,” insists that his one daughter shall wed a man she dislikes rathor than the man of her choice, in the person of Larry Kent, who is cast as Dermott McDermott. When her' father' dies, shortly after, a midnight ceremony in the chapel of '“Hangman’s s House,” June Coll.ver, as Connaught O’Brien, suffers untold agony as the unwilling bride of John Darcy, as depicted by Earle Foxe. Darcy, who is concealing a checkered career, is trailed to Ireland by ' Citizen Hogan, played by Victor MeLaglen. Connaught wonders why Darcy fears the mysterious Hogan, hut is kept in doubt until the dry of the annual steeplechase in which Connaught has entered her favourite horse, The Bard of Armagh. Darcv, betting against The Bard, is infuriated when Dermott rides The Bard to victory. Darcy shoots The Bard and is exposed by Hogan as the man who has wronged Hogan’s sister, in Paris. Gripping sequences pile up in preparation for a smashing climax. This is the most satisfactory picture shown bore in some time.