Tivoli

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7246, 28 August 1933, Page 3

Tivoli

“BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE” How would you like to see a hungry man-eating tiger battle to death with a 25-foot bone-crushing python? How would you like to see this same embattled tiger step into a pool -to slake his thirst and come face to face with the jaws of a 16-foot crocodile just waiting for tiger meat? How would you liko to see the meanest of jungle beasts—the wily black panther - —tackle the jungle’s most ferocious man-eating tiger? How would you liko to see what happens when the crocodile gets himself wrapped in tho coils of a 20foot python? How would you like to see a lone white man in the heart of the tropical jungle entrap this snake with his bare Laud—and alive? These are some of the superior thrills in the Van Bcuren Corporation’s feature film. “Bring ’Em Back Alive,” tho authentic camera record of Frank Buck s famous book of the same name. There is no love interest —no built-up drama, no sobbing sisters or he-man lovers m this release Pictures, directed by Clyde E. Elliott. But there is such excitement as no Hollywood brainchild could ever give. There is real heart-action, for example, when the hunted tiger charges right into a native village and then into a camouflaged trap. There is the heart-stop-ping moment when Frank Buck jockeys the man-eater into tho homemade cage at. the risk of his life. As for the other big moments, there are combats between age-old jungle enemies that, pale into insignificance anything civilisation ever threw into a prize Ting dominated by electric lights, ballyhoo and the quest for dollars. A matinee will be held to-day at 2.30 p.m.