“THUNDERBOLT”
FINE TALKIE FOR PLAZA Tense, suspensefuldrama in a setting as intriguing as any ever brought to the screen, comes to the Plaza Theatre next week when “Thunderbolt,” George Bancroft’s new all-talk-ing picture shows there. The gripping situations, surpassing the tremendous episodes of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” pulse with life-giving dialogue and sound. Harlem, New York’s negro district, with all its sinister, hidden underworld, is revealed on the screen as it actually is. Bancroft portrays the part of a hard-fighting gang boss in love* with Fay Wray, Eric von Stroheim’s beautiful heroine of “The Wedding March.” The girl repulses Bancroft and, in an effort to go straight, turns to Richard Arlen. They fall in love but Arlen incurs the enmity of Bancroft. That is the big climactic situation. Bancroft, the virile he-man of the screen, has sworn to kill young Arlen, the likeable hero-aviator of the famous ‘Wings.” They are together in Sing Sing’s death house. Will Bancroft kill the youth? Will he let Arlen be sent to the chair? Will Bancroft go to the chair? Suspense! Tense, hard, j cold, breathless drama and a love theme | that keeps the heart beating fast.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 15
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