A FIGHT FILM
HUMOUR, PATHOS, DRAMA “Knockout Reilly,” Richard Dix’s latest starring vehicle, is the highly exciting cinema record of the fistic adventures of a young steel puddler, who almost overnight finds himself on the verge of pugilistic fame, and whose career is as suddenly blasted by a combination of circumstances that land him in prison convcted of a crime of which he is innoncent. Episode piles on exciting episode as Dix struggles to retrieve his good name. A smashing denouement results in Dix emerging a pugilistic champion. The thread of the story carries a strong love theme, with Mary Brian as the object of Reilly’s affections. Jack Renault is featured. It is said that Director Malcolm St. Clair has succeeded in an unusually perfect blending of humour, pathos, and drama. The play was adapted for Paramour*, from Albert Payson Terhune's stO«y, “The Hunch.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 June 1927, Page 15
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144A FIGHT FILM Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 June 1927, Page 15
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