THE PLAZA.
"PLUNDER."
"Plunder," the picture at the , Plaza Theatre this week, is one of -ft number of farce-comedies that have been adapted" by British and Dominion Film' Corporation, and which have created long-remembered laughter throughout the Empire. But the Walls-Lynn combination for' oncedeserts tue grotesquely humorous farce comedy with its straight-out .plot, for the humour of a crime story burlesqued) and ononis ftt ft loss to decide in 'which capacity the pair oan provide the more continuous laughter. D'Arcy Tuck, ft young'gentleman of leisure (Balpb Lynn), conspires with a master crook (Tom Walls) to wreak vengeanoe on an olji lady; Mrs Hewlett (Mary, Brough),. who has filched the former's flnancee, of fortune. They, decide to steal the old lady's valuable* jewellery,; and in carrying out the theft kill, accidentally, of courae, a member of their household, who is mysteriously , connected with the Hewletts. On v4ry bare suspicion, tho itwo friends are summoned -Scotland Yard and cross-examined, and it is the scene in which the two outwit the crime? experts that wins the picture the right to be compared with "Rodkery Nook,'' for surely there "could be few passages of. film dialogue; as absurdly laughable as these. - -
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20199, 30 March 1931, Page 8
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