AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 23, 13 April 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“FORLORN RIVER” Some of the finest action pictures of>vild horses in their native haunts ever caught by the motion picture camera form some of the high spots in Paramount’s “Forlorn -River.” the ac-tion-crammed, story „of .. the West which screens at the De Luxe Theatre to-night and Thursday (matinee and night). These scenes, of which there are many, are calculated to satisfy the most rapid horse lover and to more than please the casual film goer Who is after novelty, action and a robust story. .Wit , excellent, story, from the capable pen of Zane Grey, a competent cast- of players headed by Larry Crabbe, June Martel, Syd Saylor and Harvey Stephens, round out an excellent evening's entertainment for anybody’s money. The story deals with the depreciations of a band of desperadoes, headed by Stephens, who determine to outwit a* buyer from the army remount service and steal the horses consigned to the government. How they do this and how they are frustrated' —by Crabbe and bis pal Saylor, forms the thrilling story. Considerable comedy is supplied by Chester Conklin, who will’ be remembered by older film goers as the walrus moustachioed comedian who was Charlie Chaplin’s partner in many of the latter’s early pictures. The intervening years have done nothing to lessen Conklin’s mastery of high comedy and it is to be hoped that this appearance is the first of many. Romance is supplied by beautiful June Martel and John Patterson, the latter a. newcomer to pictures who has recently been “discovered.” The manner in which he handles his roie in “Forlorn Hirer” augurs for a brilliant career in pictures for him. “•GREAT G AMBUS!” Whether you like tender, heartwarming. romance or spine-tingling thrills and' chills. Paramount’s ‘'The Great Gambiui,” which opens to-night at the J)e Luxe Theatre, should send you home pleased and thrilled. “The Great Gambini,” which features Akim Tamiroff in the title role,, is primarily a thrill-packed mystery. Tamiroff is the star attraction at a swanky night club, where he and his beautiful, blindfolded assistant ‘read’ sealed messages sent him by the audience. When Tamiroff propnesies that Marian -Marsh, planning to be married the next day, will not marry her fiancee, it is first considered merely a badi joke, hut when the fiance is found murdered the next morning, the ease takes on a more serious aspect. Everybody in the film is under suspicion Tamiroff; Miss Marsh; her disappointed suitor, John Trent; her lather, Reginald Denny ; and her stepmother, Genevieve Tobin. Tamiroff calmly takes delight in pointing out clues to a pair ol gootv detectives. William Demarest and Edward Bropby, and then, just as they are about to arrest the whole party, he shows, just as calmly, and just as conclusively, that nobody; there could possibly have committed the crime. The picture reaches its climax with one of the most novel twists ever brought to the screen, in which the murderer is revealed, and the romance between Miss Marsh and J rent is brought to a happy end.