"Said O'Reilly to McNab."

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1938, Page 16 (Supplement)

"Said O'Reilly to McNab."

The fact that the two famous cOmedians, W1U Fyffe and Will Mahoney, are in the leading roles in the film, "Said O'Reilly to McNab," is enough to commend the picture. It has been described as the furmiest film ever produced in Britain. The dialogue is extremely clever and eminently suitable to the talents of the two comedians, and there is a particularly good theme, something or. the lines of the old Kelly-Cohen films. The story deals with an Irish-f man's son, who desires to wed the daughter of a Scotsman, and from that stage on there is perpetual strife, argument and differences of opinion between the representatives of those two races. There are arguments over the merits of whisky of certain brands, and what is even worse are the arguments over golf. Even the question o£ the superiority of the Highland fiing over the Irish jig enters into the piece and the padr found that the only thing that they could agree on lay in the direction of their business affairs. After a great deal of fuss and commotion the marriage is deffnitely arranged and, after that, the picture races forward to a supremely funny climax. "The Californian." Thrilling action against the colourful background of old California is the highlight af Harold Bell Wright's fast-mov-ing screen play, "The Californian," with Ricardo Cortez in the starring role. The dramatic, thrill-paced story "of a famed and feared hero of Old California's scarlet days, it presents Oortez as a phantom 4 bandit who leaves behind a taunting laugh as token of his daring raids. His career parallels the exploits of the famous bandit, Tiburco Vasquez, who became an ouUaw in an efTort to right the wrongs done his Mexican oountrymen by renegade Americans attracted by the great gold rush of 1849. A gallant lover, and a gay caballero of the fiestas, Oortez shines also as a Robin Hbod of the Old West, with a spitting six-gun for his longbow, making law where there is none, to. save his friends and_ neighbours who have been terrbrised by usurping > adventurers.