BRITANNIA
“MAN POWER” “Man Power” is all that the name implies in the Richard Dix Paramount picture, which comes to the Britannia Theatre to-night. It is Dix at his best, in a fast-moving story, with suspense enough to keep audiences sitting on the edge of the seats. The story works up to a tremendous climax when the star, driving a tractor through a rain storm, rushes up a hillside to save a dam threatened with a washout.
“Man Power” takes place in a small town. It deals with the adventures of a former Tank Corps officer down on his luck, who gets a job into which he puts his heart, because the daughter of the president of the company is the girl he loves. Throughout there is a strong vein of comedy.
All those who like to see their movie stars do he-man things and battle real odds, will enthuse over Dix’s work in this one. He gets as much heavy action as he did in “The Quarterback” k and “Knockout Reilly,’-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 16
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