LAURIER, PORT CHALMERS

Evening Star, Issue 22227, 3 January 1936, Page 1

LAURIER, PORT CHALMERS

EDMUND LOWE IN ‘UNDER PRESSURE* Edmund Lowe and Victor M'Laglen, are-reunited as the leading actors in the new Fox Film production Under Pressure, which commences to-day at the Laurier Theatre, Port Chalmers. Northern audiences have voted this unique picture as the most colourful, the most thrilling, and tlio most human of the notable Lowe-M‘Laglan senes, and wide interest has been displayed in its release throughout the country. ‘ Under Pressure,’ it is said, supplies this outstanding screen team with a type of story and a background never before attempted by Hollywood. This background is furnished by the tunnelling operations beneath a New York river—and the two stars are seen as “ sand hogs,” battling perilously against the black waters which surround them. Only one hour of the 24 they spend below the river. That is as 1 long as men can endure the air pressure there. But they drsw high pay for that one hour; and in the other 23 tliere is time for love and life and laughter. Such, say advance reports, is the theme of this human drama. One of the most extraordinary settings ever seen on the screen was used for this picture—an exact replica of a modern under-river “ horc ” —many hundreds of feet long.