Paramount Week.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 209, 21 August 1926, Page 11

Paramount Week.

ATTRACTION

"WILD HORSE MESA.” Zane Grey’s story for Municipal Theatre, Paramount Joy Week: “Wild Horse Mesa,” Paramount’s celluloid version of Zane Grey’s latest novel. That this spontaneous tribute to the merits of the photoplay was well deserved, is attested to by tho fact that all over the country wherever this spectacular produotion has been shown, it has been hailed as a melodramatic thriller. Zane Grey is without a peer when it comes to devising dynamic plots that vibrate with red-blooded action, unique thrills, and appealing romance and in “Wild Horse Mesa” he is at his supreme best. The story depicts in gripping manner the barbarous scheme of a gang of horse thieves and outlaws to capture several thousand wild horses by stampeding them into a barbed wire trap. Under the shrewd and intelligent direction of George B. Seitz, this scheme is developed and embroidered with an assortment of such tremendous climaxes as to chill the blood of the most hardened pic-ture-goer. The final thundering thrill, showing the terrific charge of the wild s teeds, is in itself worth several times the price of admission. Jack Holt, who pourtrays the leading role, covers himself with dramatic glory, and gives a superb exhibition of horsemainship skill. Noah Beery handles the “bad man’ part with his usual finesse; Billie Dove, charming and lovely, furnishes the love interest; and Douglas Fairbanks. Jr., wins, new laurels with his characterisation.