LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 572, 26 January 1929, Page 15

LYRIC

FINE DRAMATIC PICTURE Those who dislike the hackneyed underworld type of story with its details of sordid murders need have no fears about seeing the fine film, “Me, Gangster,” which was shown last evening at the Lyric Theatre. “Me, Gangster,” based on Charles Francis Coe’s story, which ran as a serial in the “Saturday Evening Post” and has been published in book form, was directed by Raoul Walsh along progressive lines. There is not a machine *?un in the entire pictured story* murder is not committed, there is no enmity between law breakers and police, yet there always is poignant, human drama, thrills, suspense, romance, . battles of wits, battles of brawn with no scene that is not as natural as it is logical. From all of this one can gather that “Me, Gangster,” as a story of the underworld, is refreshingly different; and it is. Don Terry, juvenile, playing the lead in his first picture, is a real artist in Walsh’s hands, and June Collyer is more beautiful than ever. Anders Randolf, Carol Lombard, Joe Brown, Nigel De Brulier, Arthur Stone, Stella Adams and Burr Mclntosh are part of the brilliant supporting cast. To add to an already excellent programme, the Syd Chaplin comedy, “The Fortune Hunter,” is also shown. “The Fortune Hunter” is a human, happy-go-lucky, exciting drama. It portrays the unusual doings of a young rake who comes to a country town on a wager to marry the richest girl, and share lifty-fifty with the pal who staked him. The locale is a Vermont village and the characters are not caricatures. Helene Costello is the leading lady, doing the part of the rich girl, while Clara Horton is the poor girl.