AKAROA PICTURES

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIV, Issue 6576, 13 October 1939, Page 3

AKAROA PICTURES

FRONTIER THRILLS AND ACTION ABOUND IN GEORGE O'BRIEN'S "GUN LAW"

A rousing tale of adventure and romance and gunplay on the oldi Arizona frontier is brought to the Akaroa Theatre screen in "Gun Play, stairing George O'Brien on Saturday. The story is a triumph of fast-mov-ing action and reveals the energetic O'Brien at his two-fisted best. He' has the role of a United Statees marshal ordered to the little town of Gunsight to look into several hold-ups which have occurred in the vicinity.

On the way he encounters The Raven, a notoiious desparado, who subsequently dies at a poinsoned water hole. Learning that The Raven was also on his way to Gunsight to join its outlaw gang, O'Brien decides to assume the dead man's identity in order to simplify his investigations.

Travelling with a wandering preacher and his pretty daughter, who have picked him up in the desert, O'Brien reaches the town and promptly allies himself with the pandits. On discovering that a marshal is known to be on his way to Gunsight, O'Brien declares that the outlaws need not worry; he himself met and killed the officer on his way to town, displaying his own badge and paptis as proof.

The ruse succeeds, and O'Brien finds himself ir - olved in a whirlpool of complications, along with an undercover agent working with him as a singing waiter in the town's principal saloon. How the plans of the bandits are exposed and their leader brought to justice after a series of thrilling adventures, make up the plot of the exciting offering.