"BOY OF THE STREETS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 12

"BOY OF THE STREETS."

IMPRESSIVE NEW FILM DRAMA. It is a generally accepted fact that the productions most acceptable to average audiences are those that appeal to a wide railed of human emotions. films that present orthodox themes in original manner. The "family experience" type of picture, whether treated lizhCy or seriously, has proved this fact. That is the reason why "Bov of the Streets." which opens at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow, is likely to prove popular with a:l cla.<*es of tilmlioers. Basically, it is a "family experience" picture, although it also includes some comedv and music. .Tackle Cooper, whose star us still hiah in the Hollywood firmament, heads the cast, with Maureen O'Connor. Kathleen Burke. Marjorie Main ami Robert E. O'Connor also prominent. The story is a timely one and will interest parents of sons particularly. Chuck i.Tackie Cooper) ;s leader of a ffanff of street hoodlums. Fichtinz. stealing and continually makinz trouble. he is alwavs the object of police attention. His ' discouraged. disillusioned parents have little heart to continue the almost hopeless struffcle to set his feet on the riffht track. Wonshippinz a pansster. he becomes associated with him in a robbery nnd an officer » shot. Implicated in the crime, he one indication of upr zhtness he disclose® the sanzster's identity. He then shows that he wants to follow the rizht path by joinina the navy, where he knows that the discipline and training will enable him to make something of hinwelf. The difficult plot is svm pathetically and sincerely interpreted Kr the plajw. * n< J fi'™ should rank h'ish with thf*e unpretentious productions that include more real drama and actinz than anv two of the so-called "sunercolowal" picture* v:th bie box office nirna £gmio( ia the cut bit.