His Own Life Is As Strange As Fiction

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7106, 15 March 1933, Page 5

His Own Life Is As Strange As Fiction

Tim McCoy, the Western film star, whoso own lifo has been fully as exciting as most of the heroic roles he brings to the screen, enacts the characterisation of a law-enforcing Texas cowboy in his latest Columbia picture, "Fighting for Justice,” due on Saturday at tho Kosy theatre. McCoy himself, who knows the olden West as few other living men do, is authority for the statement that "Fighting for Justice” brings back more of the authentic life of tho border thirty years ago than one would find in dozens of average Western pictures. Fastest man alive on tho draw with tho six-gun, McCoy has good use for his trusty weapon in this brimful of action picture, where, almost singlehanded, he goes to tho wide open town of Cougar and sees that a band of desperate rascals are ousted from land they have illegally appropriated. 0110 of tho production highlights of this latest McCoy offering is a hilarious Texas barn dance, featured by the singing of Fuzzy Knight, the Hollywood Hill-billies, and eleven-year-old Mickey Conti, playing tho accordeon. Joyce Compton, one of tho prettiest girls in Hollywood, is the romantic inspiration for McCoy’s exciting deeds in "Fighting for Justice.” Other noted actors are Robert Frazer, Hooper Atchley, William V. Mong, and Lafe McKee. The picture, adapted by Robert Quigley, from a published story by Cladwell Richardson, was directed by Otto Brower, able director of Western films, who made "Fighting Caravans,” and "The, Sundown Rider,