AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“NIGHT COURT.’’ Everybody’s Pictiires. present “Night CouiV', a seus~.itjbi.aU drama ot judicial corrupt.o.l. Plumps tiolmes, Walter iii.ii-o.i, Anita, rage, Lea'i's atone and aean .Hea'sHclt Head tire impressive cast of.‘‘Night Court.” Filmed uimer the direction of W. S. Van Dyke, this picture,offers one of the most sensational storied of political corruption ever presented on the screen. It focuses its attention noon a night court magistrate who uses his office to further his activities in the underworld. Huston mays the unscrupulous jurist who p>resen.s a respectable side to the public, but shows quite- another to his neiwi-ious associates. Holmes is seen as'a taxi driver whose home is undermined by the machinations of the crooked magistrate, but who ultimately brings the dishonest judge before iris own t>ar of justice. • Miss Page enacts the ohauffeur’jS wife who is “framed” on a morals charge and sent id prison to seal her lips from judicial investigators. It is a great picture full of thrills. It. is a film that will remain in your memory. It brushes you against the kmd or sordid life you seldom see, but which exists—every day—every night-—in any metropolitan .city. The human background, against which Director W. S. Van Dyke.presents this powerful' story, is impressively symbolic. In the opinion of this reviewer, 1 the opening shots : are as fine a piece of direction witnessed on the screen in many month*.