“THE BIG KILLING” AT ROYAL
Melodramatic comedy with a setting of wild, mountainous country, is the latest success of those two well-known comedians, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton, whose new picture, “The Big Killing,” is now at the Royal Theatr'e, Kingsland. The story tells of the Beagles and the Hicks, who have been enjoying inter-family feud wars for years, but a short period of peace is interrupted when a romance between young Jim Hicks and the daughter of the housp of Beagle is uncovered. The warring is renewed. Old Man Hicks sends his son, George, to town for powder, and George finds a carnival in full swing. He is impressed with the abilities of Powder-Horn Pete and Dead-Eye Dan (Beery and Hatton), billed as sharpshooters, although neither could hit an elephant with a guitar. He hires these two pseudo-experts to augment his fathers “army,” without telling them the nature of their employment. . Pete and Dan are informed by Man Hicks that they are to kill some Beagles and they, thinking that n means some dogs, readily agree. T . start out alone to find, to their ala • that the Beagles are seven nu»H> mountaineers, thirsting the t> of the imported “killers. ’ “Ladies of the Mob.” the second If ture, is an underworld story starr Clara Bow
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 566, 19 January 1929, Page 16
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