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“THE BLACK WATCH” "Tlvs Black Watch,” Victor McLaglen’s all-dialogue Fox Movietone picture which is now at the Strand Theatre, is not only the most unusual offering of the speaking screen thus far, but, much more important, is the best entertainment. Supported by a cast of sterling players, this romance of adventure and intrigue brings to the popular star a role which is new to talking pictures, that of a fearless and idealistic secret service agent who prefers public disgrace to treachery. With an empire at stake, a gorgeous love duel between AlcLaj-len and Myrna Boy, as the vol uptulus? unscrupulous adventuress X (o ; all her cruelties, is a woman ' h '., is brought to a sweeping climax which has® been seldom equalled in , a n s ,i Ford who directed the producJohn xora, supe rb job and may insider U a monument to his weil consiuer throughout is careei. A",,A in d excellently reprocapab.y ha^‘ ed Movietone system, duced via the ro includes such The supporting cast D , Aroy Davld noted players Hare Mitchell Lewis. Rollins, Lumsden Hare,Chadwick and pat somerset, Cyril Ln percy and Sseph Ldskay" sing several songs most e^ V Sikmg and News,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 15
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196STRAND Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 15
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