Bank Bandits, Trailers And Kidnapping

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 175, 27 July 1938, Page 11

Bank Bandits, Trailers And Kidnapping

“GO CHASE YOURSELF” STAFvS JOE PENNER (State: Screening Tuesday.) Utilising as its unique background an elaborate automobile trailer, “Go Chase Yourself” stars Joe Penner. Joe Fenner plays the role of a crooning bank teller who is kidnapped by bandits after they rob the bank and use Joe ’s trailer to effect their escape. Most of tho hilarious action in this comedy feature takes place in and around the trailer yon by Joe in a raffle. Appearing in support of the funny comedian aro Lucille Ball as his coldhearted wife, June Travis as a beautiful society girl who is also kidnapped by the thugs. Fitz Feld as . Miss Travis’ foreign fiance whom she is trying to avoid in marriage, and Bradley Page, Richard Lane and Tom Kennedy as the bank robbers. When the police launch an extensive man-hunt for Fenner, whom they believe robbed his own bank, a series of side-splitting situations develop which make “Go Chase Yourself” one of the more notable laugh-provoking pictures seen this year. Before the exciting climax is reached Fenner’s wife and the foreign nobleman become involved, tho heiress’ family joins the police in their frantic search for tho missing persons, Fenner gets in hot water with his captors by revealing clues to his whereabouts during a roving reporter’s broadcast, and the gangsters deliberately give him and the two women a 11 ride ’ ’ by catapulting the locked trailer down a dangerous mountain road.