Thrill-Packed Detective Mystery Drama Here

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 248, 24 October 1934, Page 5

Thrill-Packed Detective Mystery Drama Here

“SCOTLAND YARD MYSTERY’ * IS BRIGHT ENTERTAINMENT (Regent, Screening To-day) An atmosphere of intense thrill and mystery is created in a powerful detective melodrama that is current. Entitled “Tho Scotland Yard Mystery/’ it deals with the exposure of a tremendous life insurance ramp by the Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, and, entailing a continuous train of intensely gripping incidents and gruesome moments, including scenes in a graveyard and an undertaker’s, cannot possibly leave anything to be desired on tho score of sensationalism, even by the most devoted lovers of sheer melo-r drama. The development of the story turns on the complaints of an insurance company that several heavily insured persons have, within a short period, died of heart failure, although previously certified as fit by the company’s medical adviser.. The Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard takes a hand, and finds that tho whole thing is an outrageous swindle, conducted by none other than the Home Office pathologist. This man has discovered a serum which, when injected, produces a state of living death —tho fate of his victims, for whose bodies books are substituted on burial, whilst the men are revived with an anti-toxin and sent abroad with a share of tho insurance money. A tense climax shows how the villain is forced to use the anti-toxin on the Inspector's daughter, whom he has kidnapped and injected with the serum, and how he's finally caught in the trap of his own fiendish invention after injecting himself to avoid the police. .The lato Sir Gerald Du Maurier, whose recent death deprived the world of one of its greatest actors, gives in his final film a polished performance as the Scotland Yard Inspector. George Curzon makes an ideal crook, whilst ’Walter Patch, who supplies the comedy, Grete Nattier, Belle Chrystall, Leslie Perrins, and Henry Victor all provide oxccllqnt support. ‘‘Mississippi,” tho novel by Booth Tarkington, will be made as a musical film by. Paramount. W. C. Yields will supported by Lanny. Ross. - -•'7