PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10412, 20 October 1927, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

“WILD HORSE MESA” Film fans who rave about the sensational pictures they have seen, who have witnessed the, screen’s mightiest thrills, and who have enjoyed the action of westerns should see “Wiki Horse Mesa” at the Palace matinee and to-night. For action, thrills and for the most provoking climax ever fashed on the silver sheet, tills Paramount melodrama which George I?. Seitz produced from '/tana Grey’s novel, is claimed to heat them all. Imagine a herd of 5<K>D _ terror-stricken wild horses ■ charging at to speed across a tableland headed straight for a treacherous barbed-wire corral. This stamped <:—the final highpost in tho pho-toplav—-is pictured in all its terrifying realisin. and was filmed at great personal risk to cameramen and players, many of whom narrowly escaped death from tliei thundering hoofs of the wild steeds. This scene conies as a fitting finale to a series of dramatic events which have their' beginning, when. Jack Holt, hero of the picture, comps into open and hitter conflict with a gang of outlaws and horse thieves, captained .by Noah Beery; Billie Dove is the lovely heroine and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. nortr'avs r t.be fourth featured, role, that o p Holt’s daredevil younger brother. The rugged and magnificant wilderness backgrounds are not' the' least of the photoplay’s worth-while' features. All of, the exteriors were photographed .at Red Lake. Arizona, where was found an almost unbelievable duplicate of '“The Wild Horse MieSa” —the nctu/al ‘l'J'cn.le '*f thc| Rtc.rv.—with thousands of wild horses inhabiting the place: “Wild Horse: Mesa” represents the ultimato in melodrama, it is declared. ' - 1 V,