At Leeston
"THEY GAVE HIM A GUN"
Riding on the crest of the wave for his sterling performance as the heroic Portuguese fisherman in "Captain Courageous," Spencer Tracy now maintains his standard of excellent acting in a new picture, "They Gave Him a Gun," which comes to Leeston Theatre next Saturday, with Gladys George and Franchot Tone as Tracy's colleagues.
The story describes a circus barker who enlists in the regulars and there, up in the lines, meets a small-town clerk who has just learned the deadly use of a gun. They both fall in love with the same girl, a Red Cross nurse. The ex-circus barker is reported missing and she marries the weakling:, out of pity for his helplessness. But the other man escapes from an enemy prison camp and they meet again in the States after the Armistice.
Now, an expert with firearms, the clerk has become a crook. The circus man tries to save him from himself, still loving the girl, but a police bullet eventually proves to be the only cure.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 7
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