AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 24, 20 April 1938, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“TALfI. TIMBERS” “Tall Timbers.” Cine sound’s latest production, wliick screens at the J)e Luxe Theatre Thursday and Friday is a modern, dramatic romance, timed in Nature’s stronghold, the Valley of tlie Giants, with the most astounding action climax ever unleashed, imagine it! A mighty “timber drive,” something. never before attempted on the screen, when fifty acres of towering forest giants crash with thunder-like roars into the valley below, at mere man’s command. What a spectacle: What thrilling entertainment! “Tall Timbers” is a delightful adaptation of Clapt. Frank Hurley’s great Australian romance, a tender love story that grows to strength and loveliness in a. fiery, caul ion of unleashed passions as rival companies clash in fight for big timber contract, and men flirt With death when treacherous methods result in many “accidents,” including the sensational explosion of the timber train bridge and the mysterious cutting of the steel hawser of the “flying fox” which carried the huge logs across the valley. “Tall Timbers” is a splendid story —robust in character, yet full of happy romance, and bubbling with humour. An exceptional cast includes Frank Leighton, Shirley Ann Richards, Frank Harvey, Campbell Cepelin, Harvey Adams, Aileen Britton, Joe Valli. Lettv Cray don, Ronald Whelan, and George Lloyd.