"TWELVE MILES OUT."

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19363, 16 July 1928, Page 6

"TWELVE MILES OUT."

A TALE OF RUM-RUNNERS,

LIBERTY, TO-DAY. "Twelve Miles Out" is a modem "Treasure Island," a picture that resurrects the pirates of. other days, exposes their hidden cargoes, and has all the adventure, romance, and danger that went hand-in-hand with the Jolly Rogers who sailed the Spanish Main, and snapped their fingers at law and life. The pirates of. "Twelve Miles Out" are modern American boot-leggers, their craft, the speedy rum-runner; their enemies, the guardians of law and order, the revenue boats that lie in wait along the coast and provide many a thrilling and anxious hour .in the lives of these bold smugglers of the juice of the grape. 'Twelve Miles Out" will be the single attraction at Liberty Theatre, this- week, a new, up-to-date picture if ever there was one, with » hero that is no hero at all, plenty of good old blood and thunder type of drama, but a grand" finale that is true to all the canons of pl3ywriting-—the bold hero reforms, surrenders .his boat and all its cargo to the revenue officers, and, one hopes, escapes gaol,"'to marry the girl he kidnapped. It tells a rattling good story; this Twelve Miles Out," and there is a love story running through all its action, and speed that is as welcome as a ray of sunshine. It not only reveals all the 1 tricks of the trade of rum-running, but it has a tale to tell, and it tells it with the garnishing of tremendousthrills, of human interest, of neartragedies, - and the disasters of the seas. Joan Crawford,.-who plays with John Gilbeet, is'a clever actress,,.with on agreeable -'personality,''' while: Ernest Torrence has a bad-mahi -part that .ho revels in, besides adorning It with a dash of marine - humour. But to Gilbert, aB the victor, the spoils; he. is a bold, bad man, with an' infectious grin, a slick hand, with the trigger, a way with -revenue officers and w-ith .charming girlßj as an outlaw he is good.enough, but one likes him better when he reforms. "Twelve Miles Out", is good in every department,- a picture that is going to please enormously everyone who sees it. The programme wil be complemented by gazettes, news reels, and comedies. , Th« Concert Orchestra, Mr Ernest Jamieson, will play the following musical programme:—Overture, "Sixth Symphony (Beethoven); "Valse" (Chopin), The Bronie Horse" (Auber), "The Rat Catcher of Hamelin" (Nesler)* "The Duenna" (Reynolds), "Spanish Suite" (Arbos). "Nautical Scenes" (Fletcher), "The Girl Friend" (Rogers), "Gipsy Love" (Lehar), "Chanson Norwegienne" (Fourdram), A Sailor's Me" (Benedict), "Barcarolle' (Loughnnnj; entr'acte, "Oh, Doris, Where do You Live!" (Kahn). The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where, seats, may be resorved.