EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 15

EVERYBODY’S

“THE WILD HORSE STAMPEDE” A plot overflowing with action and suspense, mystery, a wealth of beautiful pictorial “shots,” many interesting characterisations, with the thread of a love story running through it all, make “The Wild Horse Stampede,” the Universal Blue-Streak w'estern now showing at Everybody’s Theatre, one of the most interesting pictures of its kind of the year. Jack Parker, manager of the Cross L. Ranch, keeps a herd of wild horses penned up in a large valley, planning to tame them. They are secure i.n their prison, but the neighbouring ranchers criticise Jack, believing them to be a menace to the safety of their cattle, and as the story opens, a delegation tells Cross L. Hayden, owner of the ranch, that Jack must dispose of his horses or be dismissed. A gang of eowpunchers discover a boy on the Cross L. Ranch and suspect him of “rustling,” but Jack prevents the lynching they are planning, and after they are gone, the “boy” reveals her real identity to Jack, and he agrees to help her on an errand kept secret from the audience. Jack Hoxie, Universal’s popular western hero, plays the starring role in the picture, ad gets himself into and out of enough trouble to down a dozen heroes of less sturdy mould.