BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 177, 17 October 1927, Page 15

BRITANNIA

“LAND BEYOND THE LAW” The requirements of the average motion picture cowboy star seem just to be good riding ability these days. There are a few who go a bit further, and add to their horsemanship some stunts with a lariat. Ken Maynard, star of “The Land Beyond th© Law,” the First National feature Western, now being shown at the Britannia Theatre, seems to be setting the pace. For Ken not is only a first-class rope manipulator, but is a finished rodeo artist. In other words, Ken rides, uses the lariat, can use a gun with the best of them, rides four and six horses at a time, does duckboard racing, drives a stage coach. In addition, Ken does something never seen on the screen before! He “bulldogs” wild steers in record time, a stunt which is the most difficult in the world to do and for the camera to catch. All of these accomplishments are incorporated in “The Land Beyond the Law,*” which by itself makes the picture. “Unique and extraordinary,” it is said by those who have already seen the film. Prince George made the eighteenth royal visitor to the London Tivoli to see “Ben-Hur,” the great Metro-Golwyn-Mayer production, which has had phenomenal seasons wherever it has been shown. Taking into consideration the command performances to the King and Queen at Windsor Castle, twenty royal personages have now seen this spectacle, in addition to 765,000 of the London public during the earlier parts of its season. Ramon Novarro is in the title role of General Lewis Wallace's celebrated story. The film has been made on a scale of magnificence never before equalled in the history of the motion picture industry.