BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 175, 14 October 1927, Page 14

BRITANNIA

“THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER” Jack Holt and Zane Grey, when, they join forces, are about as satisfying a combination as the public could wish to see. All the thrills of human drama which the author instils into his stories are multiplied on the screen, while Jack Holt, undoubtedly the most natural of all Western stars, can be relied on to carry out his share of the shooting or cattle-rustling in fine stjde, with the usual romantic interludes. So the “M3 r sterious Rider,” which is the main feature at the Britannia Theatre tonight, and which is another production of this excellent team, is one of the most enjoyable and entertaining of all Western photoplays shown in Auckland. “The Mysterious Rider” contains a generous measure of originality, an extremely rare quality in a story of this type. No longer is the grass-grown plot concerned with a wrongly-outlawed hero and “ornery” Mexicans gaily caparisoned in revolvers and other necessary accoutrements of a bandit. City financiers and crooked lawyers axe the villains, and it is the business of the versatile Jack Holt to thwart them in their fell resigns, which of course he does, covering himself with glory in the process. Betty Jewel, as the financier’s daughter, helps him in his exploits, and they finally fade out to the distant chime of wedding-bells.