PRINCESS
“EASY PICKINGS” Shivery, creepy mystery! Howls of laughter and shrieks of fear. That’s the best description of ‘‘Easy Pickings,” First National’s tense mystery film featuring Anna Q. Nilsson, which is now being shown at the Princess Theatre. If you thought the various eerie, gripping stage plays you have witnessed were spine-tippling and gaspproducing, wait—you haven't seen anything yet. Director George Archairbaiid and Frank Griffin, who produced this thriller, have taken advantage of the screen’s greater facilities for weird effects to make a picture that outdoes the most ambitious attempts in his direction upon the speaking stage. Miss Nilsson, who, by the way, wears boy's clothes as a disguise in the initial sequence of "Easy Pickings, is supported by Kenneth Harlan, Philo McCollough. Billy Sevan, Jerry Milev, Charles Sellon, Zack Williams and Gertrude Howard. The picture is tilled with comedy as well as the thrills and the plot is strong and logical. Everything Is cleared up in the surprise ending. The story was written by William \ Burton and Paul Cruger. based on their stage play of the same title, which will not be produced on Broadway until the film has toured the country-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 17
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