AMUSEMENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 85, 5 July 1928, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE. GIANT GORILLA AT LARGE. APE-MAN; WEIGHING, 400; POUNDS A giant ape-man, standing nine feet tall and tipping the scales at *4OO pounds; lias the title- role in ■“Tlhje- Gorilla,” pioturisation of the , sensational mystery-comedy by Ralph Spence 1 which, in its. stage version (rocked a Broadaily theatre for more than a'year. Charlie Murray and Fred' Kelsey are 1 co-featnred in the role of Mulligan and Garrity, two detectives who hear all, see nil and know 1 nothing. They undertake to capture the goril'B and thus solve several mysterious which are supposed' to have- been (conduitted by, him-- Their extraordinary'methods in’’ effecting this- capture in a spooky- houser on the top of a'cliff are reported to furnish most of the hilarity'. The comedy, however, is combined with chills- and thrills according to First National (Pictures, which ntldc 1 ‘The Gorilla. Gorillas are notoriously dangeious. .They are things to see behind- theRiark of!a. cage, but when there ‘ is one running'loose- in' a. house in which a murder hag'just been- committed-it-is ! time for action, and Murray,' Kelsey; Alice 11 Day, Tally •Marshall. Claude Gfllingwater, Walter Pidgeon Gaston Glass, FrOOks Aggie Herring,' and Syd. Crossly supply ..plenty of it. , Alfred Santell. the director, i s reported’to have' ablw handled a. mod difficult picture. /He has careful y blended an eerie melodrama-’ with' hilarious comedy.' He has kept- a Last and. eveii temper of Inppemngs, so. that one is sitting on the edge + of the seat from' the opening flash to the ■ last flicker. ’ ‘ . . . For spine tickling and thrills you are advised to see Gorilla,” which- will be open-at King’s Theatre, to-night only-