HIPPODROME AND EMPRESS
BUCK JONES IN “GOOD AS GOLD”
The stupendous and awe inspiring beauties of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado serve as the backgrounds for “Good as Gold,” Buck Jones’s starring vehicle for Fox Films which is now being shown at th© Hippodrome and Empress Theatres. This picture has everything that goes to make up a superlatively fine screen entertainment. The scenery alone surpasses most scenics in sheer beauty and grandeur, and the story, acting and stunts of daring and danger are such as kept the first audienc© who witnessed it absorbed every moment of its showing. Buck Jones plays the part of a son who has been robbed of his father and a rich mine by one ruthless shot of claim jumpers. Attempts to recover the mine and obtain justice forms the basis of a plot that is of absorbing interest. The part of the girl, who inherits the stolen mine, is played by Frances Lee. It is she who is the cause of the most daring stunt performed by Buck in this production. But there are many -stunts of daring, thrilling riding and hazardous climbing among the gorges of the Grand Canyon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 14
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196HIPPODROME AND EMPRESS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 14
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