THE MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 28 October 1927, Page 3

THE MAORILAND PICTURES.

‘ ‘the CANYON OF LIGHT.’ ’

Tom Mix has the role of Tom Mills, army captain in the French battle front sequences that figure in “The Canyon of Light,” the cowboy star’s latest Fox Films thriller, which will show at the local theatre on Saturday.

Many of the scenes were filmed in Yellowstone National Park and the picture has all the dash, color and drama of the West which mark Mix screen dramas. The range hears the call to arms and the best blood of the “fighting West’’ answers for overseas. The Westerners capture the enemy key position, but Captain Mills’ mate falls during the attack, just after writing home in praise of Mills. When he lands in America he receives a letter inviting him to visit the parents of his slain friend.

Mills returns to his native town to find vigilantes organised to curb desperadoes led by his brother-in-law. Ho finds his sister dying at the moment the vigilantes are ready to hang her husband. Mills answers her pleas and tricks the vigilance committee. He frees his brother-in-law and gives him his own horse so he can return to his dying wife. After this events move quickly and thrill follows thrill in quick succession. “THE DESPERATE GAME.” A picture filled with thrills and suspense, loaded with comedy scenes, and filled with an interesting love story, makes “The Desperate Game,” the.foature starring Pete Morrison, which will show on Monday at the Maoriland Theatre, one of the most entertaining in months. Morrison, the popular dashing western hero, aided by his uncannily intelligent horse and dog, speeds through the picture with his usual vigor and personality. A feud of several years standing between two neighbouring ranches is brought into the story, and Pete’s efforts to win out in the quarrel for his father’s sake combine to make the story a fast-moving and colorful tale. Morrison performs some remarkable feats of horsemanship and fights like a squad of Marines. The climax, in fact, comes in a battle-royal staged between the cow-punchers of the two feudal ranches, with Morrison leading his cohorts on to a spectacular victory.