DOUBLE DECEPTION

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 19 August 1938, Page 5

DOUBLE DECEPTION

Employing the ingenious ruse of posing as a wanted desperado among outlaws so that he may obtain evidence for their conviction, George O’Brien, playing a United States marshal, experiences a series of spectacular action thrills in “Gun Law,” his newest outdoor film, which begins today at the Crystal Palace with “Stone of Silver Creek.” The story is laid in Arizona during the seventies. O’Brien as the Federal officer goes to investigate lawlessness iij the town of Gunsight. Eir route he encounters a desperado dying from drinking poisoned water at a desert water-hole. Learning that the outlaw was also on the way to Gunsight to execute a mission for the crime gang entrenched in the town, O’Brien poses as the dead man'when lie arrives. His impersonation succeeds, and he is accepted by the mob. At. the suggestion of the outlaw leader, O’Brien caps the trick by openly wearing his own badge and pretending to be the marshal he really is. This double ruse leads to many thrilling moments of the story. ' His efforts to learn the bandits’ plans without revealing his real identity implicate O’Brien in a romance with the daughter of a travelling preacher; half a dozen gun battles, ftet fights, and his own near-lynching by the enraged townspeople. All the colour , and romance of a Western frontier town are shown in “Stone of Silver Creek,” starring Buck Jones.

“Gun Law” and “Stone of Silver Greek”

The efforts, of Buck, upright and honest, though he is the proprietor of the town’s leading dance hall, to convince the new “parson” that he is not a representative of the forces of evil are amusingly presented, and there comes a time when the open-minded minister openly allies himself with the man whose contributions he has at first refused to accept. Romance also develops in the lives of the three young girls in the story, all with the encouragement and assistance of the dance hall king. These feminine roles are played by Noel Francis, Marion Shilling, and Peggy Campbell, actually three of tho most beautiful girls in the Hollywood film colony. The story of the film is told against the background of rugged California mountains and is said to present some of the most beautifu} scenery ever to reach the screen. Harold Lloyd is holding up the release of “Professor Beware” for six months, because the public is tired of crazy comedies. He thinks they will be’ welcome again by then. * , ■* * Casting has been completed on David O. Selznick’s “The Young in Heart,” and the film is rapidly nearing the finishing line. Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, jun., arid Paulette Goddard are starred, with Roland Yourig, Billie Burke, Richard Carlson, Minnie Dupree, Lya Lys,-and Eily Malyon in the supporting cast.