LAURIER, PORT CHALMERS

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 21

LAURIER, PORT CHALMERS

•THE MILLION DOLLAR RANSOM' ‘ The Million Dollar Ransom,’ is the feature to be presented at the Launcr, Port Chalmers, to-night. The picture is particularly interesting, as it deals with a topical question that partly changed the political outlook or America in a. night. , With the arrival of the repeal, tbe 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 to gaol. When they got out it was a different story, and such a story is Damon Runyon s ‘Million Dollar Ransom,’ in which a brilliant cast is headed by Phillips Holmes, Mary Carlisle, ancl Edward Arnold. Arnold plays the “ tough ” liquor king, who returns- from prison a sadder hut 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 hia former friends? They, too, arc insolvent, and looking for easy money. These questions are answered with tensely dramatic moments in a way that only that master Writer Damon Runyon could. It is the picture of the year, and as new as to-day’s newspaper.