“LAND BEYOND THE LAW”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 137, 31 August 1927, Page 15

“LAND BEYOND THE LAW”

AT PRINCESS TO-MORROW From the time the first covered waggon broke the trail in the cattle country, even unto present times, the cattleman and his henchmen, the cowpunchers, have waged a relentless war against the onrush of settlers, or “squatters,” as they were called in former days. This hatred is based on the lav. self-preservation, because so long as the land was free from people tner*. was more room for cattle to graze and so long as the country was unpeopled cattle barons laid down the law to suit themselves. Before law and order reached the vast Western plains many a “squatter” was eliminated from a life of further usefulness by a bullet or bowieknife. The problem of bringing law to these unprincipled cattle barons was one with which the Government wrestled for a long time. ‘•The Land Beyond the Law,” the new Firs tNational picture, starring Ken Maynard, and to be shown at the Princess Theatre to-morrow, tells in thrilling episodes of those days. Ken. as a deputy-marshal, finds himself placed against two bands, one of avowed adventurers and the other headed by a cattle baron, pretending to be within the law. Ken settled his difficulties by making the avowed adventurers his deputies. Tom Santschi appears as the cattle baron and Noah Young as the leader of the vagabonds. Harry J. Brown directed. Dorothy Dwan plays l opposite Ken.