Rangiotu Hall, To-night at 8 p.m.

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 9

Rangiotu Hall, To-night at 8 p.m.

“WINDJAMMER” The fans will delight in this ride with George O’Brien on the waves of exciting action, glorious adventure and thrilling romance. Here’s tho husky star in a hard-hitting rols as a young attorney serving a subpoena that sees him diving from a plane to the side of a wealthy sportsman’s yacht to be rescued and serve his papers. Then he is an uninvited passenger carried toward Honolulu in the trans-Pacific race in which the speed ship is participating. Storms follow, part of the crew abandon ship, the yacht collides with a schooner and O’Brien, two men and a woman are shanghaied by the lawless crew of the hell-ship who soon plan to held them for delivery to Oriental brigands and ransom. After a terrific hand-to-hand fight in tho hold with the cut-throat captain, O’Brien manages to save the party, and its members put out on dangerous seas in a lifeboat. The four-master is set afire by overturned lanterns and luckily provides a flare that leads to their rescue by a United States cruiser. “Windjammer” is, indeed, a salty, lusty aud new kind of story for the favourite outdoor star who deserts tho saddle for tne sea.