ROXY
TWO BIG TALKIES A big new double-feature talkie programme is the holiday attraction at the Roxy Theatre, Queen Street, this evening. The first film, “High Voltage,” is an all-talkie, which stars the fine dramatic actor, William Boyd, in a tense drama of fugitives from justice, portrayed against the background of a terrible snowstorm. The story opens with a detective (Owen Moore) escorting a woman criminal (Carol Lambert) in a bus across country from one gaol to another. When the bus is bogged in the snow they seek refuge in a hut and light a fire. In this hut there lives a fugitive from the law (William Boyd) and the whole party is marooned there for several days by a terrible snowstorm. They go through many thrilling adventures in efforts to get relief, and when the food supply runs low it is the ex-convict who takes complete charge and rations the others.
The film includes many magnificent scenes of ice and snow, and is very capably acted throughout. The second attraction is a parttalkie entitled “The Shady Lady.” Beautiful Phyllis Haver, the star, wears many beautiful gowns in the society sequences of this story.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 855, 26 December 1929, Page 14
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