LAURIER
* The Million Dollar Ransom * which opened to-day at the Laurier, Port Chalmers, presents the repeal of Prohibition in America. With the arrival of repeal the bootleggers who Welcomed Prohibition were sadly disappointed. The Government made a clean sweep of them, confiscating their possessions, depleting them of their money and power, and sending most of them ta gaol. When they got out it was a different story, and such a story is Daw mon Runyon’s ‘ Million Dollar Ransom,’ in which a brilliant cast is headed by Phillips Holmes, Mary Carlisle, and Edward Arnold. Arnold plays the “ tough ” liquor king, who returns from prison a sadder but wiser citizen. He is through with the “racket ” and he knows it. But when an opportunity comes along that will net him a tidy fortune and still keep him on the right side of the law, he takes the chance. But what about his former friends? They, too, are insolvent and looking for "easy money. These questions are answered with tensely dramatic moments in a way only that master writer Damon Runyon could. It is the picture of the year, and as new as to-day’* newspaper.
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Evening Star, Issue 21991, 29 March 1935, Page 1
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192LAURIER Evening Star, Issue 21991, 29 March 1935, Page 1
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