AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 75, 26 August 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

To the crackling of million-volt charges of electricity “Bad Guy”,Alet-ro-Goldwyn-Alayer’s picture of the escapes and escapades of liigh-tensiou power linesmen, comes to the Do Luxe Theatre on Saturday.

The story deals dramatically with the deeds and misdeeds of dare-devil pole climbers who live dangerously and love recklessly. It features Bruce Cabot. A’irgiuia Grey, JDd)vard Norris, Jean Chat-burn and Cliff Edwards in the leads, supported by Charley Grapewin, Warre.n Hynier and John Hamilton.

“BAD GUY”

FOR JR DIMIN' A'ALLEY’ ’

“Forbidden A’allcy,” the Universal picture which screens Saturday at the J)e Luxe 'Theatre, rates ace high. Fast action, brilliant photography, a strong, dramatic story climaxed - by a wild horse stampede make it stirring entertainment. Every reel of it- is packed with thrills^

Noah Beery Jr., in the leading role, plays a frontier youth whose .dad lias been unjustly accused of a killing. They hide in tlie hills far from civilisation. Noali doesn’t see a girl till he reaches young manhood. Then he meets Frances Robinson and dramatic events begin to happen.

Acting is line throughout the picture. Young Beery and Aliss Robinson turn in excellent performances and Fred Kohler Sr., one ol' the screen’s most eminent villains is at his menacing best. “THEY GAVE HIM V GUN” Riding on the crest of the wave for his sterling 'performance as the heroic Portuguese fisherman in “Captains Courageous,” Spencer Tracy now maintains his standard of excellent acting in a new picture. - This one is the Alotro-Goldwyn-Alay-er adaptation of William Joyce Cowen’s novel, “They, Gave Him a. Gun.” The picture comes to the Be Luxe Theatre A Holiday with Gladys George and Fra'nehot Tone as Tracy’s colleagues. AV. S. \ r an Dyke II was the director. He lias followed the memorable story of war closely, as the author, himself a former soldier of the line, described it. But more than that, the picture c-lings to the powerful psychological effect of war on certain characters, long after the conflict is ended. The scars remain on their souls. The supporting cast includes Edgar Bearing, Cliff Edwards, Alary Treon and others. The story describes a circus barker who enlists in the regulars and there, up in the lines, meets a small-town clerk who has just learned the deadly use of a gun. They both fell in love with the same girl. a. Red Gross Nurse. The ex-circus barker is reported missing and she marries the weakling, out of pity for liis helplessness. Rut the other man escapes from an enemy prison camp and they meet again in the States after the Armistice.

Now, an expert with firearms, the clerk has become a crook. The circus man tries to save him from himself, still loving the girl, but a police bullet eventually, proves to he the only cure. It is a strong story, powerfully enacted.