PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 14

PLAZA

“THE DRAKE CASE” A picture that will hold you in thrilling suspense until the last moment, “The Drake Case,” an alltalking sensation, now showing at the Plaza Theatre, establishes itself as vastly differen from the run of murder trial courtroom films becaues of its unique story and its extraordinary treatment. “The Drake Case” is really the trial of The People v. Lulu Marks, an intriguing character, accused of the cold-blooded murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs. George Morgan Drake. While the entire story is practicality enacted through the testimony of witnesses the picture has been handled so that it stands alone among films of its kind. In “The Drake Case” the audience in the theatre becomes the audience in the courtroom listening to a trial that is marked with drama, tears, laughter, thrills and suspense. It has everything that features the trial of a celebrated murder case and a little bit more, provided by the unusual camera angles used by Director Edward Laemmle. •“The Drake Case” has an all-star cast including Gladys Brockv/ell, Forrest Stanley, Robert Frazer, James Crane, Doris Lloyd, Bill Thorne, Eddie Hearn, Tommy Dugan, Byron Douglas. Francis Ford, Henry Barrows, Amber Norman and Barbara Leonard. Chief among the tlakie items on the remainder of the programme is the first New Zealand-made Sound Gazette. The incidents seen and heard include views of Bishop Cleary’s funeral, of work on the waterfront road and on the wharf, “Queen Street at 5 p.m., 1 ’ and of the making of the talking Maori film, “The Romance of Maoriland.”