LIBERTY HAS BRIGHT BILL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 471, 4 June 1932, Page 25 (Supplement)

LIBERTY HAS BRIGHT BILL.

Admirers of George O’Brien and Victor M’Laglen at last have the opportunity to see them paired in the same film. Both men have been featured players at the Fox studio for several years, but until production on “ The Gay Caballero ” started, no suitable vehicle had ever been found in which both could be suitably cast. The story of “ The Gay Caballero,” which opened to-day at the Liberty Theatre, is perfect for their first appearance together, since it provides each with exactly the type of role that he can do best. O’Brien is seen as a young man just arrived in the West, where he takes over the ranch left him by his father, and now managed by Victor M’Laglen. The two men soon find themselves embroiled in trouble with a powerful Mexican landowner, portrayed by O. Henry Gordon, who seeks to dominate the whole region with cruelties imposed upon the peons and small landholders. Complications enter the plot when O’Brien falls in love with Concliita Montenegro, Gordon’s niece, and finds himself opposed by Weldon Heyburn, giant chieftain of Gordon’s vaqueros. Stirring action, gripping drama and beautiful photography are features of the film. How children suffer for the sins of their parents—how family ties make young innocents guilty—is the theme of the Columbia picture, “ Tlie Guilty Generation,” which is the other feature. It is a thrilling tale told in a forceful manner and superbly acted by a cast headed by Leo Carillo. Constance Cummings and Robert Young are the two young people who almost come to disaster, not because of their own evil doings, but because they are their parents’ children. Box plans at The Bristol.