PALACE THEATRE
“THE LAST TRAIL.”
Tom Alix, playing the role of Torn Dane in his latest Fox Films drama, a version of Zane Grey’s western novel, ‘‘The Last Trad,” rescues a white girl from the camp of the Sioux Indians, on the warpath in their last efforts to drive the white men from the buffalo hunting grounds of the Dakotas. The him is finally screening at the Palace to-night. Alountect on Tony, his sure-footed lic-rse, AI x, followed by Lee Sltumway, playing an army scout, dashes into the camp, gets the girl and races awav. The white men keep up a running gun battle as the Indians start in pursuit. The sure fire of the white men picks off tho foremost oi the pursuers, hut other Sioux press on, determined to recover their prisoner. The race and the light continue to Ihe very gates of the Scoursstockade, where" soldiers see the dash of the gallant horsemen, open tin* gates and turn the.r rifles loose, lino rescuers dash in as tho savages turn and ride away. The girl becomes the wife or Joe Pascal, the scout, who moves to an Arizona mining camp and becomes a sheriff as soon as the Indians have been subdued and peace restored to tho Dakota lulls. This is the thrilling opening of “The Last Trail,” hut the remainder of the story is even more exciting,with much action centring around Temur, —the 14-year-old son of tho Pascals, who is left- an orphan when his father is killed by desperadoes. Jerry ATadden has the role of Tommy, Carmelite Oeraghty has the feminine lead opposite Mix, and others in the cast arc Wiil : am Davidson. ’Frank S. Hagney and Robert Brower.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10459, 14 December 1927, Page 6
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283PALACE THEATRE Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10459, 14 December 1927, Page 6
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