"THE BIG NOISE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 420, 31 July 1928, Page 14

"THE BIG NOISE”

AT THREE THEATRES “The Big Noise,” First National’s picture based on the story by Ben Hecht, is said to be the most gripping and colourful narrative of American journalism ever brought to the screen. It is now being shown at three theatres at once, the Plaza, Tivoli and Everybody’s. “The Big Noise” tells of a poor guard on the underground railway whose slight accident was taken up by a political candidate as a case against the railway company. The guard is Chester Conklin, who gives a remarkable portrayal of a poor man whose head.is turned by having his name blazoned across the front pages of the newspapers. The neighbours who read the papers hail him as a hero just at the time the subway lawyer comes to him with a large cheque to admit that he really fell off the platform, was not hurt, and was in no danger. In a moment of sentimentalism before the neighbours he tears up the cheque, declaring that he “won’t be bought.” When the election is won, however, he is forgotten, and has to go back to his old position at the station. . The second attraction at these theatres is “The Nervous Wreck,” a delightfully humorous story of a young man who imagined he was ill. Harrison Ford and Phyllis Haver are the leading players.