Awanui Talkies

Northland Age, Volume 8, Issue 2, 12 October 1938, Page 14

Awanui Talkies

Saturday One of Rex Beach’s greatest outdoor stories and one of the most beautiful settings in the world, the North Woods, combine the stirring action scenes to make “The Barrier,” which comes next Saturday to the Awanui theatre, outstanding. “The Barrier,” a Paramount picture, tells the love story of a girl of Alaska and a young army officer, set in the days of the Gold Rush. Jean Parker and James Ellison are the romantic team, and are part of a cast which includes Leo

Carrillo, Otto Kruger, Robert Barrat, Andy Clyde and Sara Hayden. The picture was produced by Harry Sherman and directed by Les Selander. Monday When an international jewel thief goes on the take in wealthy Hollywood, plenty can happen, and plenty does ! Gertrude Michael comes back as the notorious Sophie Lang in Paramount’s new adventure - romance, “Sophie Lang Goes West,” which screens on Monday at the Awanui theatre. It’s a fast-stepping story full of surprises and thrills, with a cast including, other than the principals, Sandra Storme, Larry Crabbe and Barlowe Borland. Wednesday

The charming couple who made “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” the delightful success it was, are back in a sweeping panorama of America’s greatness in the making, “The Plainsman,” Cecil B. DeMille’s tribute to the men and women of America who brought civilisation to the plains,

which shows on Wednesday at the Awanui theatre. Handsome Gary Cooper is cast as “Wild Bill” Hickok in the saga, and lovely Jean Arthur portrays “Calamity Jane,” famous frontier-woman who loved the silent, hard-fighting peace officer, but could not have him. Such famous frontier folk as “Buffalo Bill,” played by James Ellison ; his wife, Louisa, portrayed by Helen Burgess ; “Broken Ness” Jack McCall, desperado who slew Hickok, played by Porter Hall ; John Laltimer, notorious gun-runner, played by Charles Bickford, and General George A. Custer, portrayed by John Miljan, all come to life again, while 2000 Cheyenne Indians, 250 army cavalrymen and an equal number of horses are employed in the characteristic DeMille manner to capture the sweep and scope of the period of American westward expansion.