Blazing Guns Set Pace For O’Brien Thriller

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 273, 18 November 1936, Page 11

Blazing Guns Set Pace For O’Brien Thriller

“THE BORDER PATROLMAN” VIVID WITH ACTION (State: Screening To-day.) When a man’s a two-fisted fighter and a girl the equivalent of a pack of wild cats, excitement is sure to follow when they meet as in “The Border Patrolman,” Fox release with George O’Brien starred aucl Polly Ann Young heading the supporting cast. ' i Paced to the roar of blazing action romance that starts in a rush of exciting events and continues its headlong speed to a whirlwind climax. O’Brien meets Polly Ann in a forest where she is carelessly smoking a cigarotte. She refuses to put it out and they get into an argument which culminated in George carting her bodily to patrol

headquarters. When the captain discovers that Polly Ann is a wealthy heiress, he reprimands O’Brien, and the latter resigns. Interested in tho dashing O’Brien, Polly Ann asks her grandfather to give him a job—and he does, hiring O’Brien to tame the headstrong girll A gang of international jewel thieves is attempting to smuggle a highly valuable necklace across the border. Roy Mason, leader of tho gang, reveals tho nature of O’B.ien’s job to Polly Ann and in a perverse mood she agrees to elope with tho law-breaker. O’Brien gets wind of the plan, however, and in a series of exciting events, including a mile-a-minute race across the desert with the smugglers pursuing, he breaks up the gang, saves the necklace and wins the girl.