KING’S THEATRE
“The Plainsman” A fine pieturisation of early America, when men lived only by their wits and their two guns, is presented iu "The Plainsman,” now transferred to the King’s Theatre after a very successful season at the State. "The Plainsman” will indeed take a proud place among other De Mille epics, for it is very rarely that such a polished film is placed before the public. “The Plainsman” lacks nothing. The story is a simple one of gun-running activities between arms manufacturers and the fierce Indian warriors jealous of losing their lands to the encroaching whites. They meet with a fair measure of success until their activities are discovered by “Wild Bill” Hickok and his friend Bill Cody. Hickok is a man of action, and though the methods he uses to stop the trade would not appeal to students of the law, it is, nevertheless, .very satisfactory. Bill Hickok has an able partner in “Calamity Jane,” and her romance with Hickok, though perhaps not as other romances, gives an added appeal to the story. Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur head the cast, and they are supported by other popular players.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 16
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