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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1049, 13 August 1930, Page 17

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“MOUNTAIN JUSTICE” A Kentucky mountain court, where the men of the hills take the law into their own hands and where justice seldom fails, is one of the highly dramatic episodes of “Mountain Justice.” Ken Maynard’s latest Universal all-talking picture, wfiich opens today at the Roxy Theatre. The mountain court or tribunal is an affair of secrecy, at which the mountaineers settle disputes according to their own peculiar code of honour. Seldom has an outsider witnessed a session of the court, and it was only after weeks of intensive research work that authentic details of the picture were obtainable. Maynard goes into the Kentuckv mountain district after the man who murdered his father, and becomes caught in the crossfire of a typical Kentucky feud. He is ordered before the mountain court in midnight session on suspicion of being a revenue agent. Another picturesque feature of tho picture is a real old-fashioned mountain “shindig,” or dance, at which Maynard performs as a fiddler and Kathryn Crawford, who appears opposite him as the girl in the story, sings the quaint songs of the Kentucky hill country. The fight lasts for ten minutes, and at its finish the room in which it occurs is wrecked from top to bottom. “I never had to fight so hard before,” says Maynard. “I told Paul Hurst, with whom I battled, to make it a real fight, and he did. We went at it so hard they had to pulls us apart long after the camera stopped grinding. When we shook hands we meant it.” A second big attraction is being shown on the same programme in “Kid Gloves,” an underworld story starring Conrad Nagel.

The most famous gambling hall in the world, the Casino at Monte Carlo, was reproduced in minute detail in Hollywood to form the background for Ernst Lubitsch’s second lavish Paramount operetta, “Monte Carlo.” Jeanette MacDonald and Jack Buchanan have tho singing leads.