TOUCHDOWN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 365, 29 October 1932, Page 7

TOUCHDOWN

AMBITIOUS OPERATIONS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH. RICHARD ARLEN SUCCESS. Richard Arlen, Peggy Shannon, Jack Oakie and Regis Toomey are the principal players in the timely and exciting football drama, "Touehdown!" coming to the Urrand Theatre on Monday next. This new screen play tells the story of a football star who, after graduation, becomes the coach of a small college team. Fired by ambitions to make a national reputation for himself, the CQach (Richard Arlen) sets' out to give his team an undefeated season and gain a substantial contract for himself. To attain this end Arlen is willing to risk everything, even to the point of using players whose injuries should keep them off the football field. IIow he sets out to gain his objective, even at the dangerous risk of using the injured brother of the girl he loves, carries "Touehdown!" through one suspense filled scene after the other. There is a climax of vivid power that packs a real and vital surprisa punch. As Dan Curtis, the coach, Richard Arlen creates his most important role, and his most convincing. Peggy Shannon as the girl Arlen secretly loves is charming and sincere in a good role. And Jack Oakie, as a wise-cracking' assistant coach, and Regis Toomey as Arlen's rival in love, do well in roles that seem made to order for them. Others in the cast include Charles Starrett, George Barbier and J. Farrell MacDonald.