POPULAR HOVEL FILMED
• I COVER THE WATERFRONT ' AT LAURIER Released through United Artists, ‘ I Cover the Waterfront,’ an adaptation of -Max Miller’s best-selling book, with Claudette Colbert, Ben Lyon, Ernest Torrance, and other personalities in the cast, is the new attraction at the Laurier, Port Chalmers. Screen actors have found themselves in many strange situations during the filming of pictures in Hollywood’s history, but no assignment ever was so bizarre as the experience of a group of Chinese atmospheric players in this picture. They were paid to be modern Jonahs, only instead of whales they, had to live inside huge sharks. This fantastic situation, which in reality is not as fantastic as it sounds, according to authorities who for years have been combating the smuggling of Chinese into California, was necessary to fit the story action in the picture based on Max Miller’s book. Ben Lyon has the role of a reporter who aids police officers in running down a gang of pseudo-fishermen. After landing hordes of aliens under the very noses of the authorities the mystery finally is solved.
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Evening Star, Issue 22275, 28 February 1936, Page 12
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180POPULAR HOVEL FILMED Evening Star, Issue 22275, 28 February 1936, Page 12
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