Drama of New York’s Crowded East Side
“THE GREAT O’MALLEY” PAT O’BRIEN VEHICLE (Meteor: Screening Tuesday.) That ever-pcpular Irish film star, Pat O’Brien, has the title role in ‘‘The Great O’Malley,” a melodrama of life iu New York’s colourful East Side. Pat's a policeman this time. He's Officer O'Malley, a tough, hard-boiled copper who cannot see beyond his rule book until a little crippled girl and a lovely school teacher humanise him. By the time the final fadeout en the story he's a regular fellow. Sharing stellar honours with him, Humphrey Bogart, Mho scored so greatly as tho killer in “Tho Petrified Forest,” again runs amuck of tho law.
Ann Sheridan, another recent discovery of the studio, Mho was a high school girl in Dallas, Texas, only a year ago, plays tho school teacher. Fortune; has been good to Ann. This is only her second picture, yet already she is a leading lady at 21. Tho littlo crippled girl is played by Sybil Jason, the 7-year-old South African child actress Mho captivated movie audiences in “The Little Big Shot” and “Tho Singing Kid.” Others with important parts are Frieda Inescort, Donald Crisp, Henry O'NeiJl, Mary Gordon and Hobart Cavanaugh,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 211, 7 September 1938, Page 11
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