Action Plentiful in New Air Service Picture

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 291, 9 December 1936, Page 11

Action Plentiful in New Air Service Picture

•*BORDER FLIGHT’” FEATURES GLAMOUR OF AIR PATROLS (Kosy: Screening To-day). Action as fast as the chatter of machine gun fire dominates the story of Paramount’s “Border Plight,” adventure film of a government’s fight against' smugglers of the air.

The story is- built around the battle if the West Coast unit of the United States Coast Guard air corps to put down the activities of fur smugglers. Two ace fliers of the small corps And themselves rivals for the attentions of the same girl. Stunt flying of one of them, happy-go-lucky Grant Withers, brings his expulsion from the service and anger leads him to become a pilot for the smugglers.

The peace-time warfare of the air corps with the outlaw band, which has been slipping furs into the country by a boat-to-’plane route, provides opportunity for some of the most thrilling aerial shots in film history. Dog fights high abovo the clouds, aerial target practice of the corps, skilled stunt flying and hand-to-hand battles on the ground find their way into the story. Officers of the West Coast unit of the

thirty-man Coast Guard air corps acted

as technical directors and advisers in the production, aiding in giving an accurate picture of the work of the service. Frances Farmer, youthful Paramount find who made her first appearance in ‘‘Too Many Parents,” is the only feminine member of tho cast. Other players in addition to Withers are John Howard, Roscoe Karns, Robert Cummings and Samuel S. Hinds.