ZANE GREY ROMANCE.

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

ZANE GREY ROMANCE.

That perfect combination of romance and thrilling action comes together in “ Riders of the Purple Sage,” which will start on Monday at the Majestic, to make it one of the recommended pictures of the day. Fox Films has made of this famous Zane Grey subject one of those infrequent so-called “ programme pictures ” that emerges from the studios as a real achievement; a perfect harmony of cast, story, setting and direction that results in a picture to be talked about and remembered. George O’Brien, in the role of Lassiter, the heroic stranger, has the finest role of his career; Marguerite Churchill is beautiful and convincing as Jane Withersteen, owner of the historic ranch that Lassiter saves from the depredations of Noah Beery. The story is one of the best that ever came from the prolific pen of Zane Grey. O’Brien, a lone rider of the chapparral, looking for a sister who has strayed awav from home many years past, comes to the ranch of Marguerite Churchill, whose grazing lands and herds of cattle are coveted by Noah Beery, venal judge and corrupt head of a Law and Order Society. O’Brien pursues Beery’s underlings, when they rustle Miss Churchill’s cattle, to a secret valley whose entrance is through a waterfall, and comes on traces of his lost sister. When he learns she is dead he recovers her two children and punishes Beery in a verv exciting sequence. Then he escape's with Miss Churchill and baffles the pursuit of the Beery faction in a manner too thrilling to be spoilt by revealing. Box plans are at The Bristol.