TREMENDOUS DUEL IN FILM.

Shannon News, 24 August 1926, Page 2

TREMENDOUS DUEL IN FILM.

AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER IS ONE COMBATANT. What is said to be the most thrilling and tensely dramatic duel scene ever staged before a motion picture camera is that fought by John Charles Thomas and Captain Henry G. G. Mills, who won fame with the Australian Light Horse during the war, in “Under the Red Robe,” which comes to the Maoriland Theatre on Wednesday. Thomas, who is making his motion picture debut in the new Cosmopolitan feature, and who, with Robert B. Mantell and Alma Rubens is featured, imperstTnates Gil de Berauit, Captain Mills appears as a trooper. The duel, which is made doubly dramatic in that it is fought on horseback as-well as on foot, was filmed at the 104th Field Artillery Armory, New York. Here one of the biggest scenes, in the film t was made. In the scene, Thomas, as ©erault, is making an escape through the village when he encounters the King’s troopers. He evades all but the first trooper (Mills), and the two engage in a sword tilt on horseback that was fought with such realism that even Director Alan Crosland and other members of the company gasped. Thomas finally slides from Ins horse, rushes to the rooftop of a dwelling and when cornered there makes a daredevil swing on a rope straight through the window of a house on the opposite side of the street.