Frank Buck Presents Another Jungle Picture

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 141, 17 June 1936, Page 5

Frank Buck Presents Another Jungle Picture

“FANG AND CLAW” FULL OF EXCITEMENT (State: Screening To-day.) Frank (Bring ’Em Back Alive) Buck, sans make-up and without benefit of Hollywood’s props and lighting systems, gives a big show in nature’s jungle settings in his tMrd successive movie hit, “Fang and Claw.” Before your very eyes, as it were, the bare-handed Buck, and half-clothed natives whose skin a tiger would no doubt love to touch, search the immensity of tho jungle for their zoo and circus fodder, then man their traps, snares and pitfalls and sit back and wait for something to happen and it’s usually the unexpected that does happen. Buck’s dexterity with rope and his steady eye with a riflo along with his willingness to mix it baro-handed with dangerous foes keep the element of suspense and surprise foremost in tho pictorial story of the long trek through dense growths of tropical vegetation and giant trees that harbour fangs and claws. A native treed by a tiger is rescued by the resourceful Buck. Another tiger on the warpath attacks a baby rhinoceros and makes a flying tackle as tho cameras grind. Buck rescues the rhiuo, and it is one of tho live trophies ho has brought hack with him. There is fast action when Buck’s party rounds up and cages half a dozen rare antelope. An amusing sequefiee is when with one fell swoop enough monkeys are taken to keep the peanut tossers busy for many a day., A superthrill is tho capturo and lowering Over a great bluff of a tiger lashed to the sides of a cage. ‘‘Fang and Claw,” produced by the Van Beauren Corporation, is indeed, another treat for the Frank Buck fans and it will no doubt increase tho interest in this type of photoplay because its thrills are new and ingenious.