TOM MIX STORY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 396, 3 December 1932, Page 7

TOM MIX STORY

j FILMED IN THE WASTE OF THE SOUTII-WESTERN BESERT. | "RIDER OF DEATH VALLEY." I i | A gre-at screen star, Tom. Mix; j an exceptional supporting cast hcaded I by Lois Wilson; a superb story and a sereen-full of continuous action comeis to the Grand Theatre on Thursday next in the form of Universal's thrilling, lightning-moving, romantie ' "Rider of Death Valley." The celebratod cowpuipcher talks with the sort of a he-man voice you would want to hoar from him, and those who had any misgivings at all about the lanky Texan's acting ability will most certainly be placed at ease with the excelent histrionic ability i that he reveals in this picture. "Rider of Death Valley" is not a "Western pictujre" precisely. _ Its ! theme and 'treatment (ruiise it far into a class with the well told dramatic gems of the screen, but still Director A1 Rogell has lost none of the good, old-fashioned ishootin', j riding' and rop'in' that has made Mr. Tom Mix one of the most popular , men in the world. _ I The theme, concern'ing a beauti- | ful girl and a gold mine and a heroic cowboy who rescues both from the ! elutches of a group of cowtown vilI lains, is a gripping one, and Lois Wilson, more beautiful and charming than ever, presents an incomparable performance as the girl. _ } Filmed almost in ibs. entirety in the wastes of the South-western desert, the picture offers pictorial beauty seldom surpassed, _ A1 Rogell has done an. excellent joh with j 1 direction. The entertaining screenplay is based upon Jack Cunningham'is story, "Death Valley."