KING'S TO-NIGHT.
"THE DRAG NET." Once more George Bancroft is playing the virile, two-fisted type of role so dear to his heart. In "The Drag Net," aPaframount's sensational crbofc melodrama, now showing at the King's Theatre, Bancroft plays the part of a man who walks in 'Constant peril and mocks at danger. It was such a role in "Underworld", which transformed the dynamic Bancroft from the "smiling viTlain" of tlie screen to one of the foremost dramatic star s in motion pictures. It was another such part in "The Showdown" which again demonstrated Bancroft's great dramatic abilities. In "The. Drag Net," Bancroft was directed by Josef von Sternberg, the man who directed him an "Underworld." Evelyn Brent and Fred Kohler. two other outstanding members «of the "Underworld" cast are playing in the new picture as is William Powell, one of filmdom's: ' outstanding villains.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17679, 2 September 1929, Page 4
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