TWO GOOD PICTURES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 25 (Supplement)

TWO GOOD PICTURES.

Few pictures of recent production embrace more entertaining' value than “ Fair Warning,” Fox movietone melodrama, which started to-day at the Liberty, George O’Brien, who portrays the leading male role, has never been seen and heard to better advantage and he has a new leading woman in Louise Huntingdon, who is as charming as she is talented. O’Brien enacts the role of an untamed youth who fights his way to romance, and when it comes he is afraid of it. The story is unusual, in fact, unique, but nevertheless absorbing, and, as for thrills, suspense and excitement, “ Fair Warning ” has scarcely been equalled. A brilliant cast supports the principals and the work of Mitchell Harris and George Brent is outstanding. The story, in original form, was “ The Untamed,” of which Alax Brand was the author. Warner Baxter and Dorothy Mackaill are seen together for the first time in their screen careers in “ Their Mad Moment,” a tempestuous romance of the Basques filmed by Fox, which is the other feature. Hamilton MacFadden and Chandler Sprague directed the picture, which is a screen adaptation of Eleanor Mercein’s piercing novel, “ Basquerie,” which deals with the stirring adventures and romance common among the pleasure-loving Basques. The story tells of a modern American society girl, Dorothy Mackaill, who loves a handsome Basque, Warner Baxter, but is faced with a marriage of duty in order to pay the bills incurred by her scheming step-mother. Box plans are at The Bristol.