MAYFAIR.

Upper Hutt Weekly Review, Volume I, Issue 22, 15 May 1936, Page 4

MAYFAIR.

A- rib-rocking mystery thriller that dispenses laug-hs and suspense is offered by Fox Film in "The Great Hotel Murder," which starts its engagement at the Mayfair Theatre on Wednesday, 20th. Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen, who have appeared jointly in eight pictures since they were spot-lighted in "What Price Glory," are co-featured in this comedy-drama. They portray two sleuths, one a polished writer of murder stories who tries his amateur hand at solving real murders, and the other a heavy-footed and equally hefty-brained hotel "dick" out to outdo Sherlock Holmes, "When a sinister murder occurs these friendly enemies, one all theory, ihe other opposed to theories, follow a hundred clues and fight over every clue. The setting is a de luxe hotel. Among the amazing sights promised in "Baboona" are a savage Juol between a maurauding leopard and e wart hog, never before photographed: the wild stampede of a vast hoi-de of elephants, thousands strong; war belweon armies of giant baboons and battalions of lier-ee monkeys—-fig-hting to the death; the Johnsons' plane landing - in a river infested -with crocodile killers; the attack of roaring - , fearless lions upon the cabin of a grounded plane and its human occupants. These and other thrilling and astonishing episodes have been, so far as is known, filmed for the first time in the history of the screen.