"EAST OF JAVA."
State Theatre, Pctone,
One of the most thrilling and tense of all jungle productions is Universal's "East of Java," starring Charles Bickford, which opens tonight at the State Theatre,: Petone. Bickford, cast as ah American gangster fleeing from East Africa with "G" men on his trail, champions seven cowering human beings, including a beautiful woman, against seven lions, when a tramp schooner is wrecked on the reefs of a jungle isle a hundred miles from the nearest civilisation. This is the film in which Bickford was attacked by a crazed lion and nearly died of his wounds. In the cast are Elizabeth Young, Frank Albertson, Leslie Fenton, Clarence Muse, and many other noted players of stage and screen. The story opens with Bickford fleeing from the East African port of Simba Sao in the tramp schooner Sea Dragon, Leslie Fenton, master. The ship is taking, beside human • cargo, a consignment of lions and'other jungle beasts, to America. ■, A- tropical hurricane sweeps the ship' on to reefs, humans and beasts escape to the island, and the fight for the survival of the fittest starts. Hunger, thirst, lack of firewood, fever, and jungle insanity follow as the beasts sweep closer and closer to their human prey. . .■■,■■ A first-class supporting programme will be screened. ..:■-.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 83, 7 April 1936, Page 5
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