TWO CRIME THRILLERS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22894, 15 December 1939, Page 16

TWO CRIME THRILLERS

A wild, roistering Cossack from the I bleak plains of Russia who tries to transplant his mode of life to rural America and rule his son’s life bygangster methods, forms the exciting central figure of Paramount’s “Escape From Yesterday,” the next attraction for the Plaza. Akim Tamiroff heads a large cast of popular players. Hardriding, hard -living, and hard-loving, Tamiroff is about to find happiness with his long-lost son. when the United States imprisons him at Leavenworth as punishment for his bold theft of cattle from Government farms. His titanic efforts to effect escape, aided by his son, who becomes an army man for the purpose, form some of the most exciting sequences. The picture winds up in a smashing climax, with the bewildered son forced to choose between his duty to his father and his honour as an officer of the army. Leif Erikson has the role of the son, and others in the cast include

Next Programme for Plaza

Frances Farmer, Lynne Overman, and Vladimir Sokolofl. Alfred E. Green directed the film. From the typewriter of one of America’s most famous newspapermen comes Universal’s “Big Town Czar,” the associate feature in this programme for the Plaza. Barton Mac Lane has the title role in the film, written by Ed Sullivan, the columnist. The vivid story of a gangster chief who scales the heights of lawlessness is unfolded by Sullivan, who appears in the picture as himself. How the underworld czar’s notorious career affects -the lives of countless others is depicted. Tom Brown, Eve Arden, Walter Woolf King, Jack LaRue, Frank Jenks, Jerry Marlowe, and Gordon Johes have leading roles. The conflict between Mac Lane and Brown, brothers who become partners in crime and targets for rival mobsters, is the highlight of the action pf the fast-moving film directed by Arthur Lfibin.