AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY. “GUILTY HANDS.” Can a man commit the undiscoverablo murder r* This is the question & that is answered in “Guilty Hands, .that will be shown at the Princess The- , atre to-night in a way that ■ leaves the matter open to some doubts, but the author of the story has cleverly led U P i,n amazing climax that would- suit either answer. Those who like the powerful acting of Lionel Barrymore will readily visualise how well he fits into the character of a fond father, formed ly State Attorney, and now successful legal practitioner, who in his day has sent as many men to the electric chair as he has kept from it. Calleu to prepare a new will for a rich libertine, he discovers that it is his on n daughter whom the foul-jiving millionaire plans to marry. The girl is blinded and hypnotised bv Gordon Rich, and as Richard Grant, Barrymore anaets the part of the stern father, who will let nothing stand in his way to save the girl’s happiness. Rich lives on an island in the Atlantic, ten miles from anywhere, and his palatial home is the scene of a party, when father and daughter arrive. , Made aware of the shameful life of his client through the details of tin. j changed will, Grant, over a pile of photographs of women to whom he is to pay hush money, learns of the death of a sixteen-year-old girl who threw herself out of a forty-second storey window rather than yield to Rich, and then and there calmly tells him that he will kill him before he allows the wedding. That night there is a storm, in the midst of which there are innumerable weird and eerie happenings, and Rich is found dead with a pistol clutched in his hand, Also Comedy, News, and Cartoon. Prices 2s 3d, Is 6d; children Gd downstairs.