THRILLING TALKIE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 April 1933, Page 7

THRILLING TALKIE

X "BY WHOSE HAND?" A NEW MYSTERY PICTURE. Taking your nerve around the cprner and playing pit-a-pat with your heart-beats, VBy Whose Hand?," a, Columbia mystery, picture, opens on Monday lat the Grand Theatre. It is difficult to conceive of more dramatic action than is piacked into this unusual film, which is unfolded on a train bound for 'Frisco. Many strange and interesting things transpire. The 'audience is kept on sdge every minute as the logical hut utferly baffling plot. unfolds — and th'en gets a final thrill in the surprise ending. Ben Lyon, as Jimmy Hawley, a reporter, doesn't profess to be a detective, but his newspaper training? has taught him enough "inside" stuff to enable him to trap a "killer," who has escaped from the pentitentiary — and further unravel a string of mysterions happenings. As mentioned, all this talces. place on a trans-continental train ia,t night, which affords -opportunity for vivid camera work. It :so happens that the same train has ahoard miany notorious underworld characters, who contrihute their respectiv.e parts with interesting and compelling developments. As the picture opens, police are following a tip that Delmar, an escaped convict, will try to make 'Frisco on the Grand Express. The sequence of happenin,g|S on the train, iricluding the murder of a wealthy jeweller and several othens:, leads to a elimax that is totally unexpected. Interesting performances are given by Nat Pendleton, as "Killer" Delmar, Kenneth Thomson, Dwight Frye and William Halligan. A delightful romance is cbarmingly enacted by Barbara Weeks and Ben Lyon. If you like your mystery films real mysteriou3, here's one made to order.