‘EAST OF JAVA’
.FINE FILM FOR GRAND 'East of Java,’ the film in which Charles Bickford, its “he-man” star, was nearly killed by a ferocious lion and was at death’s door for days, opens at the Grand on Wednesday. Actual jungle scenes, treachery, bitter-sweet romance, and real animal fights, man against wild beast, that made front page news when Bickford was clawed and bitten in the thi-oat by a 4001 b lion during production. This is * East of Java.’ Bickerfqrd plays Red Bowers, fugitive American gangster, who escapes to British East Africa on a wild anirhal cargo schooner. A typhoon sinks the ship and strands the crew on a desert island. The animals in the cargo also swam ashore; The lions kill the other beasts. ' They begin stalking the humans and throw the frightened survivors into an abyss .of fear. That is, all save the gangster, the leader of men. the red-headed “ he-man.” Charles Bickford, who battles as a wild man against the wild animals who seek his life and the lives of others. Supporting Bickford in ‘ East of Java ’ are Elizabeth Young. Frank Albertson. Leslie Fenton. Clarence Altise. and others. Also to be shown is ‘Sinister House,’ starring Preston Foster.
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Evening Star, Issue 22383, 6 July 1936, Page 3
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