THE LYCEUM

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3491, 29 October 1926, Page 3

THE LYCEUM

‘HOOT - ’ GIBSON IN "THE PHANTOM BUGLET.” For sheer action, thrills, originality of plot and grandeur of scenery, not to say delicious comedy, the picture this week-end commencing to-night at the Lyceum Theatre, is the last word in Western presentations. It is "The Phantom Bullet,” a Universal-Jewel, ■ starring "Hoot’’ Gibson and directed Iby Clifford Smith. The star portrays I the role of a cowboy, Tom Farlane, j who in order to solve the mystery of i his father's murder impersonates a i young man from the city, delicate, gentlemanly and ultra-retined. His ludicrous contrast to the hard-boiled, flea-bitten frontier characters allay the suspicions of the guilty men and justice is served, after a. long and difficult series of happenings. An ingenious (wist to jibe plot brings into I prominent position in the story, a I camera and the fact that I lie hero !is a youth who loves photography. It I is because of Tom’s artistic proclivities that a major crime mystery is (solved. "Tho Phantom Bullet” brings ; out tlie very best of the famous star, ’ll is one of (lie best Western pictures lever produced and hi’ ties! that, Gibson lias done. Universal deserves much credit, for effecting a Western feature that strikes a new and different chord-