AMUSEMENTS.
€VFRYBODYS PICTURES. UNUSUAL PRISON SCENES IN “THE BIG HOUSE” CARRY TREMENDOUS, PUNCH. . ». -r > •• :iy-? - , , 'Zi' ' *- ■ “The Big Hpuse” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s all-talking drama of penitentiary: riots now playing, at the Princess 'Theatre, -might be compared tithe biggest of pictures. Three central characters work out a dramatic story against seething hates ancl.di desperate prison riot quelled with’-mach-ine guns and tanks. A sympathetic, love story of a boy and a girl is adroitly w,oven into the.thrills, realisms, hoi rora and heart throbs of the massive play;
The three central characters arc played by Chester Morris, Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery, as three cell mates in the penitentiary. Friendship, jealousy, the corrosion of solids, and regeneration through love apd turmoil are elements of the picture. Leila Hvams plays the heroine, and th’e cast includes Lewis Stone, Karl DirapV-'Gcbrge’-'-Marioh,Jv C. Nugent, D§i \Vitt Jennings and Claire MacDonald; More than a thousand ex-service men. itooh part in the prison yard and Oell house scenes;, ‘ ' ■ • '
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1931, Page 3
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158AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1931, Page 3
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