AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“a id til court.”

TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY #■

Everybody’s Pictures present “'.Night CouiV-, a so-iS-iCioaui* drama of judicial «-onuptjba. Holmes, Walter iiuyo.l, Anita tMge, Lewi's atone and aean yLiersuplt Lead tire impressive east of “Njgnt Court.” Filmed under the direouou of W. !S. Van Dyke, tars pfcture offers one of the most sensational s£oi‘M4> or political corruption ever presented on the screen. It foetuses its attention. noon a ingilt court magis.rate who uses his office to further bis acfciyitiela in . tile underworld. Huston prays the, unscrupulous jurist who. yre-en.s a respectable side to the public, but shows quite another to liis nefarious associated. Holmes is seen as a taxi Oliver vvnose home is under-

mined by the ‘machinations of tlie crooked magistrate, hut who ultimately brings the dishonest judge before .lis own »ar of justice. Miss Page enacts the chauffeur’s wife who is “framed” on a morals charge and sent .o prison to seal her lips from judicial, investigators. It is a great picture lull of thrills. It is a, film that will remain in'- your memory. It brushes you against the kind or sordid life you sel<Jo/n see, but which exist®—every clay—every night—in any metropolitan city. The human background, against which Director W l . S. Van Dyke proserats th s powerful story, is. impressively s.nlbolic. In the opinion of this reviewer, tlie opening • shots are ts fine a piece ~f direction witnessed- on tlie screen in many months.