FINE FILM OF OPEN SPACES
• FIGHTING CARAVANS ’ FOR OCTAGON Thousands of people ’ and animals,scores of huge prairie schooners, hundreds of Indians in war paint take part in ‘ Fighting Caravans, ’ Zane Grey’s own immortal story of the fight to conquer the West, brought to the talking screen. . . , Filmed against the majestic , California High Sierras, ‘ Fighting Caravans,* coining to tlie Octagon Tneatro on Boxing Day, carries on the tradition instituted by ‘ The Covered Wagon,’ though it lias all the added advantages of the talking screen to make it live. This story is recognised as the greatest achievement of Zano Grey. It tells the story , of a breed of men that has long since disappeared, recounts their hardships, their loves, their appalling discouragements, and their indomitable courage. ‘ Fighting Caravans ’ pictures all this with compelling realism -against the ever-changing, awe-inspiring panorama of the untamed frontiers
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Evening Star, Issue 20982, 22 December 1931, Page 9
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141FINE FILM OF OPEN SPACES Evening Star, Issue 20982, 22 December 1931, Page 9
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