HIPPODROME

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 87, 4 July 1927, Page 13

HIPPODROME

TOM MIX ON WEDNESDAY Tom Mix, playing: the role of Tom Dane in his latest Fox Films drama, a version of Zane Grey’s famous Western novel, “The Last Trail,” rescues a white girl from the camp of the Sioux Indians, on the warpath in their last efforts to drive the white men from the buffalo hunting grounds of the Kakotas. The film is coming to the Hippodrome and Empress Theatres on Wednesday. Mounted on Tony, his sure-footed horse, Mix, followed by Lee Shumway, playing an army scout, dashes into the camp, gets the girl and races away. The white men keep up a running gun battle as the Indians start pursuit. The sure fire of the white men picks off the foremost of the pursuers, but other Sioux press on, determined to recover their prisoner. The race and the fight continue to the very gates of the scouts’ stockade, where soldiers see the dash of the gallant horsemen, open the gates and turn their rifles loose. The heroic rescuers dash in as the savages turn and ride away. The girl becomes the wife of Joe Pascal, the scout, who moves to an Arizona mining camp and becomes a sheriff as soon as the Indians have been subdued and peace restored to the Dakota hills. This is the thrilling opening of “The Last Trail,” but the remainder of the story is even more exciting, with a lot of action centreing around Tommy, the four-year-old son of the Pascals, who is left an orphan when his sheriff father is killed by desperadoes. Jerry Madden, Fox Films famous juvenile actor, has the role of Tommy. Carmelita Geraghty has the feminine lead opposite Mix and others in the cast are William Davidson, Frank S. Hagney and Robert Brower. Lew Seiler directed the production from the scenario by John Stone.