AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES “GUILTY HANDS.” Can a man commit the undiscoverable murder? This is the question that is answered in “Guilty Hands, that will be shown at the Princess Theatre to-night in a way that leaves the matter open to some doubts, but the author ol' the story has cleverly led up to an amazing climax that would suit either answer. {Those who like the powerful acting iof Lionel Barrymore will readily visualise how well he fits into the character of a fond father, formerly State Attorney, and now successful legal who in his day has sent as many men to the electric chair as he has kept from it. Callbu to prepare a new will for a rich libeitine, he discovers' tMt it is his own daughter whom the fouWiving millionaire plans to marry. The girl is blinded and hypnotised by Gordon Rich, and as Richard Grant. Barrymore anacts the part of the stern father, who will let nothing stand in his why 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 tlw. .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 lie allows {-'the ' wedding. Tfi|t night there is a'Storm, in the midstrof'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 (Id; children 6d downstairs.