'A HONEYMOON ADVENTURE’

Evening Star, Issue 21053, 16 March 1932, Page 7

'A HONEYMOON ADVENTURE’

A STARTLING BRITISH MELODRAMA If you like adventure in the melodramatic style, ‘ A Honeymoon Adventure,’ coming to the Empire Theatre, is to bo recommended. Adapted from the book, ‘Footsteps in the Night,’ the film was made by Radio Pictures in England with an all-English cast. A noteworthy feature is the beautiful English and Scottisli scenery which i_s unfolded on tho screen as the villain, in Ids high-powered car, chases the heroine down tho length of England to steal from her some valuable plans. A race between train and car is a timehonoured device among producers_ for putting punch into a climax, but it is duobtful if it has ever been used to better advantage than in the present case.

It is the story of a young inventor who is tracked down on the day of his wedding by certain crooks who want to steal sojnc very valuable plans. With his lovely bride be goes to a lonely old Scottisli mansion for the honeymoon, but scarcely is be there belore a faked message recalls him at once to London. On the way ho is drugged, locked up in a squalid house, ami so disposed of until later on in tho story. Then Hie villain turns his attention to the bride, left disconsolate ou her wedding night in the wilds of Scotland, By pretending to bo a friend of her new husband he” gains admission to the house, and then, in tho dead . of night, starts searching for tho plans. Ho does not find them, however, for tho heroine is a woman of resource, and tho next morning, with her suspicions of the visitor now confirmed, she prepares to follow her husband to London. But tho villain hangs on like a leecli until finally both throw off all pretence, and the race starts in earnest. From this point tho excitement increases rapidly. It is a well-made talkie, and the east has been chosen carefully. Benita Hume can always bo relied on for good acting, and klio gives of her best m the role of tlie heroine. Peter Hannon is (rood as the hero, but lie is quite eclipsed by Harold Huth. This is tho actor who hits made such a great name as the Anton Ragatzy of the talkie version ot ‘ The Outsider,’ and_ now ho shows his versatility in an entirely different role. Ho is tho real smooth-voiced, sinister villain of melodrama, dividing his time between lurking in dark corners and making himself unpleasant to tho heroine.