AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

CVKRYBODYB PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY

“THE SECRET SIX.”

‘‘The Secret Six,” Metro-Goldwyn-Ma.yer’s sensational drama of Americani'city politics and the underworld, is the attraction which will head the programme at the Princess Theatre tonight. With Wallace Beery, hero of “Tlie Big House” and “Min and Bill,” Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow 1 , Marjorie Rambeau and John-Mil-jam’heading one of the biggest casts assembled in years, the unfolds an astounding tale based on actualities of modern American city life.

The picture opens in a slaughterhouse, where Beery works as a slaughterman in the pens. The narrative then takes the weak-willed Beery through variotfs episodes in bootlegging resorts an4' into prosperity, until finally he becomes a millionaire overlord of crime. Then the forces of the law be»gin their work and gradually the boot" leg-king is dethroned, to find a very fitting end on the scaffold. No attempt has been made to surround th e gangster with any measure of glamour. Instead, he is shown in his true light. Lewis Stone portrays Newton, the, unscrupulous criminal lawyer who guides the machinations of the mob from the backgfound. Marjorie Rambeau is 'seen as a “gunman’s girl’ ’; Paul Hurst, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy, John .Miljan, DeWitt Jennings, Murrya -:;Kinnell, Fletcher Norton, Louis Niltheaux’>;Frank McGlynn and Theodore • Von Eltz make up the remainder of ..the hugc.cast.- # " “The Secret n3ix )r / ;i ( s ji--brilliant exposure of drama, pointing a distinct moral to' tlie multitudes that will undoubtedly see it.