FILM OF THRILLS SHOWS AT QUEEN’S.
A thrilling race between a motor-car and a train is the centrepiece of this week’s attraction at the Queen’s Theatre. The film is ‘‘The Speeding Venus,' and Priscilla Dean heads the frast. Many races between trains and cars have been filmed, but seldom has the > spirit of speed been so well caught as it -is in this remarkable picture. Besides the * thrilling passages in the race, there are many exciting moments in the rest of the film. For once, the heroine is called on to do some real fighting, and the way she gets the best of two toughs absorbs the spectator. The second attraction is “ The Desert Pirate,” a thrilling Western, featuring Harr},* Carey. Several .good comedies and interesting gazettes complete a first-class programme.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18576, 26 September 1928, Page 7
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