AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. ‘•‘^TAKtOma'D.’’ s TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! The most remarkable animal ever shown on the screen is Bunga wunga,

the gigantic ape which appears prominently in “Stark Mad,” Warner Bros ’ isensaitional special production with its scenes laid in the mysterious depths of' the Central American jiih&les. Before the starting of the

picture this great beast was brought < to Warner Bros.’ studio in Hollywood, and for more than an hour was exercised hutside oiie of the big stages. Dozens of people stood about watching its shuffling movements—slow and clumsy—brut actuated by fiendish atealtb. The huge, simian, found mysteriously chained in the ruins of an anciejit Mayan temple in the uninhabited jungle, plays an important, <jn the adventures of a party who journey to this forbidding region in search of a hunter who has gone into the jungles—and never come out. “Stark Mad,” a mystery eppidrama, undoubtedly takes rank as the most thrilling production of its kind in the (history of the screen, especially since the technique of the mystery films so well handled in ‘ The Terror.” The all-sthr cast includes H. B. Warner, Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline -Logan, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel B<dmore, Claude .Gillingwater, Andre Beranger, John Miljan, Warner Richmond and Floyd $h a eke ford “Stark Mad” was directed by Lloyd Ba(*bhV ! ' r and the story, written bv. Jerome Kingston, was prepared tor the .screen by- Harvey Gates. •Prices: 3s and Is 6d, plus tax, children 6d downstairs.