MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 8 June 1926, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"REWI'S LAST STAND."

GREAT NEW ZEALAND PICTURE.

"An Aucklander has produced a moving picture that places New Zealand 'on the map so far as the film world ds concerned," is the openingsentence of an article in the Auckland "Star." "That producer is Mr Rudall Hayward, and the picture is "Rewi's Last Stand," the Maori War Films' feature to he shown a,t the Maoriland ' Theatre on Friday night. ■The picture is better in all respects than numerous limported films that have come to this city. Founded on the record of one of the niqst 'conspicuous occasions in the history of the Maori War it brings into this modern metropolis a page out of the stirring times of the 'sixties, wjhe'n the Maoris fought for what was undoubtedly their own property. The most terrible engagement between the natives and the Bitishi troops took placa at Orakau, where a mere handful of Maoris defied our soldiers for three days, the women fighting in the trenches, with the men. That battle is depicted most sensationally in the film. These battle scenes are greater even than some taken in American country under the most modern and favourable conditions. Mr Hayward has set- a standard aiid upheld an argument long put forward here —that good pictures can be produced in the Dominion, and that we can do our toll share towards helping the Motherland into a prominent position in the fllm world—that our 'rough island story has episodes galore that could be used for pictures, against the background of our own beautiful scenery. Mr Hayward's picture has outshone many pictures from the greatest markets. The acting as good, the photography quite excellent, and the sequence flawless." "Rewi's Last Stand" will he screened In Shannon on Friday night.

KING OF WILD HORSES: DOES

THRILLING' STUNTS.

' In all the years oif .his "wild, carefree, outlaw' life, the beautiful, powerful Black had never known defeat among his own, or capture by man. He was of a breed that knew not hit nor bridle—a king among his kin—the vast plains for his gkingdoin, a herd of mates for his subjects, a high cliff for his tlirone, from which he kept eternal' vigilance.

Many men had seen the Black and chased him, but none had ever caught him, because, if some persevered long enough to drive him into a tight corner, he had one last trick—there was a gap that no other horse had overleaped without plunging to death ! The horse, untamed and powerful," really a king among his kind, performs many dating stunts. Without a rider on his hack he leaps across a broad chasm; lie fights off a while stallion who tries to steal his herd; he rushes into tlie fiery furnace of a forest fire; he dives from a high cliff into a swirling whirlpool; he races like the wind, leaving other horses far behind his dust. A magnificent, noble creature!'' r <

"Hie King of Wild Horses" will be on© of the main attractions at the Maoriland Theatre to-marrow, when Harold Lloyd will also appear in "Hat, Water" on a special two-feature bill.