GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 694, 21 November 1933, Page 3

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. '"Hot Saturday," the new film which opened at the Grand Theatre last night, features Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant and Riandolph Scott in a human, dramatic story of a girl who walked home. It is the kind. of thing that happens anywhere, and has been produced and .acted with such effeetive simplicity that it seems strangely, int.imately real. The film tells the story of Ruth Brock, the most popular girl in town, who suddenly finds her whole world crashing down about her ears meraly btcause she has been seen to leave the car of a man the town has dubbed notorious. In the role of Ruth, Nancy Carroll gives one of the finest performances of her career, and Grant again proves his excellence as the notorious Romer Sheffield. Randolph Scott, the lanky young man who scored in Zane Grey's "Heritage o-f the Desert," also does a fine joh as an old sweetheart of Ruth, who takes the gossip seriously, and the remainder of the cast is exceptionally ,able. The film; is eminently worth seein'g. The second feature is Zane Grey's exciting action-romance, "The Mysterious Rider." The cast is headed by Kent Taylor, Lona Andre, Irving Pichel, Gail Patrick and Wiarren Hymer. The film tells the story of a single man's battle against powerful forces which' seek to evict half a hundred ranchers iand their families from the property which they own and love. The attempt is set under way by a crooked lawyer, who, after discovei'ing that the land occupied hy the ranchers is not legally theirs, employ s underhand methods in transferring it to a powerful financier. The latter demands that the ranchers be thrown. out of t.hdr homes, and when Taylor, their leader, urges them to resist, he lands in gaol for his efforts. But he bursts loose, and at risk of his life, exposes the cntire swindle, to bring the film to a breathless climax.