King’s Theatre

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 2

King’s Theatre

‘•Show Them No Mercy!,” a gripping, searing account of the nation’s war on crime, interspersed with moments of hilarious comedy and of tender romance, the picture is now showing at the King’s Theatre. This picture takes up the story where others have left off. When “Show Them No Mercy!” opens, the crime has been completed, the money taken. The mobsters, headed by Cesar Romero and Bruce Cabot, Tetiro to a cabin in the backwoods. As fate would have it, they have as unwilling guests Rochelle Hudson, her husband Edward Norris, and their baby, driven in by the rain. The gangsters attempt to utilise Norris to pass their “hot money.” As the net of the anti-crime forces closes about them, the mob becomes panicky, threatens to wipe out the young couple, and finally disband carrying their money. But the vigilance of an aroused nation drives two of *the number back to the cabin. In the closing passage of the picture, a surprise ending reveals how mobsters meet a violent end after a rule of violence. Kubec Glasmon’s original story served as a model for “Show Them No Mereyl” which was directed by George Marshall, noted for his direction of Will Rogers pictures. Edward Brophy, Warren Hymer and Herbert Rawlinson are among those prominent in the supporting cast.