SPEED THRILL FILM HEADS QUEEN’S BILL.
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 cast. 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 many exciting moments ih 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 Ilarry Carey. Several good comedies r.nd interesting gazettes complete a first-class programme.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18578, 28 September 1928, Page 7
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130SPEED THRILL FILM HEADS QUEEN’S BILL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18578, 28 September 1928, Page 7
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