RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 18

RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

“THE GORILLA” Combining the last word in chills with the last laugh in merriment, the picturisation of Ralph Spence’s famous mystery-comedy, “The will be shown at the Rialto and Regent Theatres to-night. This is the show that rocked Broadwiy for a year. In its film form it has bee n changed somewhat in order to offer a new mystery tangle to those wh*. may have seen the stage presentation. That a great many have seen it \$ due to the fact that during the las; two years eight stage companies toured America and Great Britain scoring a sensational success everywhere. Weird and novel settings, and exceptional lighting effects, artsaid to make the screen version of “The Gorilla” even more “spooky than it was on the stage. Charlie Murray and Fred Kelsey, as the two celebrated sleuths. Mulligan and Garrity. who hear all, see all, and know nothing, provide the comedy. The cast in support of Charlie Murray and Fred Kelsey includes Alice Day, Tully Marshall, Walter Pidfteon, Claude Gillingwater, Gaston Glas?. Brooks Benedict, Aggie Herring, Syd. Crossley, and John Gough. “White Gold.” starring Jetta Goud l, will also be screened to-day. Tie plot, laid in the sheep country of Aiizona, involves a single psychological event that transpires in the course of 18 hours. Garrett Fort, the scenarist, and William K. Howard, the director, found it necessary to write the script as the scenes were photographed. Reactions to situations, with an attempt to unfold the plot through the regisering of thought on the film, is the basis for this startling technique that diiector William K. Howard employed. Kenneth Thomson is leading man.