GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 365, 28 October 1932, Page 2

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Once convicted of murder and a penitentiary term behind him, .a man whether guilty or innocent, has to live it down. Every one leaving prison carries a stain, but the mark isn't indelible. It can be erased, but that takes a man with nerve — one who can meet a world ready to use both fists on him and find courage to take it with his hands iii his pockets. These are the words Buck Jones hears in the opening scene of "The Deadline" in which he is starred. It is the warden who speaks them when Buck is Iparoled for good behaviour after serving a year of his five yeaf term. Buck had not killed that man when he had interrupted a poker game lix which he was holding a hand. Buck had seen the man grab his gun as he.came into the room and with a cry of warnirig he shot out the light. When the lights were ttirned on, the man was dead from a blow on the h'ead with the butt of a gun and Buck "was convicted because thfe 'dead man was the one he had reeently quarrelled with. And now, with his hands in .his pockets and everyone helieving him guilty except a select few, ineluding tbe girl he loves hut wnom he dare not court until his name is cleared, Buck Jones has a real Jbb cut out for him. In( the cast of "The Deadline" are Loretta Sayers, Robert Ellis, G. Raymond Nye, Edwin A. Brady, Harry Todd, Knute Erickson and . young