Robert Montgomery As Typical Playboy

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 47, 26 February 1936, Page 11

Robert Montgomery As Typical Playboy

AND CO-STARRED WITH MISS MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN (Kosy: Screening To-day.) "Hide-Out,” the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture is heralded as one of those wholesome film productions which leave a lasting impression upon those who see it. It deals with a happy-go-lucky ‘ ‘post-repeal racketeer” who, believing he has everything one could wish for in life—money, without working for it, romance and pleasure—comes to his senses after he has been driven from New York by the police, only to find a real love and happiness in a rural environment. The picture is said to be crammed with all of the excitement and glamoui of big town life and the purity and simple existence of a rural community. As “Lucky” Wilson, tho playboy, Robert Montgomery has a made-to-order role. Reluctantly he is compelled to find a country hide-out to escape arrest and to recover from a bullet wound but he soon becomes entranced with the country when he meets Mauren O’Sullivan, cast in the role of a farmer’s daughter. Prominently east in "Hide-Out” is Edward Arnold. In the role of Mrs Miller is Elizabeth Patterson, seasoned character player. The picture serves as a debut for one of the stage’s finest character actors —Whitford Ivanc.

Mickey Rooney, twelve-year-old boy actor, and said to be one of the film colony’s most talented child actors, plays the role of the young farm lad, willie Miller, whose antics add considerable humour to the picture. Others in the large supporting cast include C. Henry Gordon, Muriel Evans, Edward Brophy, Henry Armetta, Herman Bing, Louise Henry and Harold Huber. The picture was filmed by the well-known director, W. S. Van Dyke.