FAST COMPANIONS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 466, 25 February 1933, Page 7

FAST COMPANIONS

The local premiere of "fast Companions" occurs at the Grant' Theatre on Monday, introducing local theatregoers to Universal's latest emrant for stellar honours, Tom Brown, who is featured in the picture with an excellent cast including James Gleason and Mickey Rooney. j Opening an engagement, S"Fast Companions" is a heartrendingi story that raees along with the ver|e and excitement of the race-traek ' which forms its background. It is a poignant tale of the feformation of a crooked jockey, wio has always made his livelihood fiaming raees and gypping the rubes atismall town bets, by an ironie twist in the friendship that he forms wth' a youngster whose knowledge of| racetrack tactics almost equals the jockey's. a i| The film is packed with sequences that will figuratively tear your heart out as the affection hetween the two develops. The jockey, foreseeing the same fate as his for the urchin mless he reforms, for the first time iti his life tries to do a decent thing byjtrying to mend the kid's ways. ! No one in the audience that previewed the picture was able tc» re- | strain tears as the film reachel its dramatic climax. A general coitcensus of opinion acclaimed "Fast dompanions" one of the finest, most compelling pictures of the current season. It was. directed by Kurt Neu- 1 mann, with Andy Devine and Maureen O'Sullivan in the cast in .addition to Brown, Gleason and Mickey Rooey.