ENTERTAINMENTS.
St. JAMES THEATRE. Spencer Tracy demonstrates his phenomenal ability for the fourth successive venture in “They Gave Him a Gun,’’ which shows at the St. James Theatre to-night and on Monday night. This is the M-G-M adaptation of the best seller by William Joyce Cowen, former soldier, who expressed his hatred of war in the novel. Directed by w. S. Van Dyke 11, the film has Tracy, Gladys George and Franchot Tone in the principal roles. The supporting cast includes Edgar Hearing, Cliff Edwards, Mary Treen and others. The war scenes were filmed on the vast 500-acre tract where M-G-M made “The Good Earth.” The story deals with two men and a woman. Tracy is a circus barker who enlists in. the regulars. Tone is a smalltown clerk who finds himself in the army and up in the front line. A gun gives him courage. Gladys George is a'Red Cross nurse. When Tracy is reported missing she marries Tone out of pity. Tracy escapes from an enemy prison camp and the trio meet again in civil life, with the war ended. Familiar now with the use of a gun, the weakling has become a gangster. Tracy tries to save him, but fails.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 87, 22 January 1938, Page 2
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