HUMOROUS FILM AT PLAZA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1937, Page 11

HUMOROUS FILM AT PLAZA.

WALLACE BEERY IN "OLD HUTCH.'" Filmed in the colourful farm country of , Santa Cruz, "Old Hutch," which will open to-day at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford, deals with a man who has not worked for 20 years because of "back trouble." While fishing one day he accidentally stumbles upon a box of hidden loot, £25,000 in all. "Old Hutch" is portrayed by the lmmitable Wallace Beery. Because he has not worked in years and is known to be without a cent, he realises it would be impossible for him to cash any of the £1000 bills. Hutch gets a job running a farm in order to save enough money to start using the stolen bills without arousing suspicion. He finds a new hiding place for h}s treasure, but one day learns that the land has been sold and buildings are being constructed on the spot where he hid the money. A few days later he returns to the spot and there is picked up by the desperadoes who had stolen the money in the first place and. then rediscovered it in Hutch's hiding place. The bandits lure him into their car and at the conclusion of his thrilling experiences with them, he receives a thousapd pounds reward for aiding in the capture and conviction of the desperadoes.