COMING ATTRACTION

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 26, 27 April 1938, Page 1

COMING ATTRACTION

“KID GALAHAD” OUTSTANDING! FILM COMING TO TH lv BE! LUXE THEATRE .Splendidly directed by Mielniel Curtiz.. who made “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” and “Captain Blood”, and with a .strong east headed liy ,Ktl ward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and a real “find” for the title role, in Wayne Morris, Warner Bros.’ ‘‘.Kid Galahad,” based on a “Saturday., Evening Post” serial by the well-known A merican writer, Francis Wallace, is the* best inside- story of the boxing “racket” that has been screened. Its atmosphere is authentic, and tlie plot well-sustained, with an ending which is logical and a fitting dramatic climax to a. film which is packed with suspense and exciting episodes. No screen story has ever offered such stimulating prize-fight scenes. This picture, in many of its aspects, thrills' the 'beholder to ap unusual 6 degree, gripping the attention from its opening sequence until. Nemesis overtakes the man whose quicktempered jealousy finally results in a tragedy, which i s cleverly developed as the feud progresses between Nick Donati, a popular, very temperamental, and not too particularly honest manager of prize-fighters, and Turkey Morgan, a gangster who is in the fight game simply for what his crooked methods can get out of it. Having lost, his best fighter to his rival, J>o-

nati discovers a promising; Jad in JNVard Guisoitberry, a bell boy at his liotel. How lie develops this boy’s lighting; ability only to have him battered in the ring because of a suspicion tlptt the young fighter lias, superseded him in the affections of Fluff, .Donati’s girl friend, is the main theme of a. realistic story that has a thread of pathos running through it without destroying its tense prize-ring atmosphere. It is one of the most virile pictures of its class that has ever been produced. As the prize-fighter whose chivalry and Adonis-like appearance won his ring name of Kid Galahad, Wayne Morris scores a tremendous success for such a young and comparatively inexperienced player. One cannot imagine anyoOe else fitting the role hotter. led ward G . Robinson gives another of his masterly studies as Nick Donati. jvlijie Humphrey Hbgart again, proves that he lias few equals in gangster roles. Bette Davis, one of the screen’s really brilliant actresses, subtly conveys the character of Fluff without sentimentalising it. ;As Donati’s sister, Jane Bryan, a new and attractive loading lady, and. Soledad Jiminez, as the mother, provide the soothing domestic touch to a picture tliati is punctuated as much with comedy a.s it is with tense excitement. Harry Carey, as Silver Jackson, also deserves mention. Kid Galahad will he screened at the Do Luxe Theatre next Saturday and Modnay and oil the same programme Spaiiky McFarland and the Our Gang Kids will lie seen in the uproarious full length, comedy "General Spanlty”.