GRAND THEATRE
TO-NIGHT. | Defying the underworld to save her ' brother's life and risking the loss of her sweetheart's love, is the central theme of the stupendous James Cruze production "The Big Fight," which opened last night at the Grand Theatre. The story culminates in a battle for the heavyweight championship I with "Big Boy Guinn Williams and and Tony Stabeneau as opposing eontenders, and some of the most realistic and gripping fight scenes ever staged are seen in this dramatic photoplay. Lola Lane makes an excellent and appealing heroine, who is faced with the choice of betraying her . prizefighter lover or dooming her brother to death at the hands of a band of gangsters. James Eagle makes an effective characterisation as the wayward brother, and Stepin Fetchit extracts a number of hearty laughs with his humourous impersonation as Spot a negro janitor. So well is the absorbing story knit together tbat all j elements of the plot and the destinyof all the characters involved must wait for the outcome of the big fight for their settlement. Never for a moment does the action lag, and the pace with which the narrative moves, stamps it the work of an expert producer. Others in the cast of this tense talkie are Edna Bennett, Ralph Ince, Wheeler Oakman and Robert O'Connor.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 538, 23 May 1933, Page 3
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218GRAND THEATRE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 538, 23 May 1933, Page 3
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