TEEMS WITH THRILLS

Evening Star, Issue 21711, 4 May 1934, Page 4

TEEMS WITH THRILLS

WEStEHN film for green island Maintaining a .swift pace from the very beginning, George O’Brien’s picture, ‘ Smoke Lightning ’ (adapted from Zane drey’s ‘Canyon Walls’), should prove highly entertaining when it is shown at the Greek Island Cinema to-morrow afternoon and evening. The action and excitement that distinguish the western star’s offerings are amply supplied in this up-t O-date tale of an adventurous cowjillticher tvho attempts to protect an orphan girl’s heritage from a band of crooks; His efforts involve Inin iii pleiity Of adventures) including a thrilling battle along the top of a racing express train. There! is also much delightful comedy in the film. Some of the locales are surprisingly beautiful and included with the dramatic quality, the pictorial aspects make this picture exceptional. A distinctive note Of novelty is added in the person of nine-year-old Betsy King Ross, the daring little rodeo queen whose feats of horsemanship make her work in the role of the orphan girl memorable as Well as absorbing. Nell O’Day as the charming Fr6nk Atkinson as O’Brien’s humorous bftl. and Morgan Wallace as the crooked sheriff, all do notably in their portrayals.