PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1008, 26 June 1930, Page 18

PLAZA

“THE THREE GODFATHERS’

The charmingly fresh romance bJanet Gaynor and Charles Farrell will close its season at the Plaza, Theat™ with the presentation there tonight. One of the most unusual and distinctive pictures ever screened mi:; be seen at the Plaza tomorrow, whrn the Universal all-talking productict] “The Three Godfathers,” opens an engagement.

The picture is based on *Peter E. Kynes famous story. “Three fathers.” Its plot deals with tb* reactions of three Western bad met when they find themselves with a new-born baby on their liasJs In C* midst of the desert.

They had promised the child's mother, before she died, that thev would take the baby to the litth frontier town of New Jerusalem. A killing trip across the desert await* them—and they know that at NfJerusalem. if they ever get there, m noose is waiting also. This dramatic situation furnishes material for a picture rich in r rnance, pathos and humour. Manv o' the scenes were filmed in the Mojave Desert, and the realism of the picture is startling in its intensity. Acting ability of the highest order features the production. Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton and Fred Kc:.ler give amazing characterisations. Fritzi Ridgeway and Maria Alba supp; the feminine interest in the notkb'* cast, which also includes Joe de it Cruz. Buck Connors and Walter James. *

The picture was directed by William Wyler.