RIOTOUS COMEDY-DRAMA
ALSO NOVEL MYSTERY PICTURE FOR STRAND Robert Hale, the stage favourite of Gaiety Theatre days and star of many a London musical comedy, success, makes his screen debut in the Warner Bros.’ First National production of ‘ What Happened to Harkness,’ which will come to the Strand to-morrow. In ‘ What Happened to , Harkness ’ he is coteamed with the screen comedian Jimmy Finlayson, and the two appear as members of a village constabulary who are called upon to aid in the solution ot an alleged murder mystery that has arisen—with riotously amusing results. There are mystery dramas and romantic dramas, but usually one element is almost completely subordinated to the other. In ‘ Fog Over Frisco,’ the melodramatic mystery thriller, which will be shown in support of 1 What Happened to Harkness,’ thrills and suspense are blended with love and romance with such a nicety as to form a most unusually entertaining picture. Bette Davis heads an impressive cast of players in a_ new role for her, that of a society girl who joins the band of .criminals partly for love of the master mind, partly for money, but mostly for tho thrill and excitement of tho game.
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Evening Star, Issue 22066, 27 June 1935, Page 11
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197RIOTOUS COMEDY-DRAMA Evening Star, Issue 22066, 27 June 1935, Page 11
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