GRIPPING FILM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 494, 1 July 1932, Page 3

GRIPPING FILM.

Sally Eilers and Spencer Tracy Co-starred. Ladies of the Jury,” starring' Edna May Oliver, will conclude its season at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow night. ‘‘ Disorderly Conduct,” the Fox drama which will commence a season at the Majestic Theatre on Monday, gives Sally Filers and Spencer Tracy excellent opportunities to enhance their reputaas film favourites. Sally Filers has given some outstanding performances of late, particularly in “ Dance Team,” “Over the Hill” and ‘‘Bad Girl,” whilst. Spencer Tracy’s characterisation in the comedy “ Up the River ’ is still fresh in the minds of film-goers “ Disorderly Conduct ” has earned a great deal of praise from overseas critics, one reviewer stating: “It is great entertainment without a shadow of a doubt. It is the kind of film that gets the audience in its grip from the opening scene and holds it enthralled until the final fade-out. The fine work of the entire cast, coupled with the

bright dialogue, both comic and serious, have a great deal to do with the undoubted success of * Disorderly Conduct.’ ” The excitement begins in the first reel when Spencer Tracy, pursuing some suspicious looking trucks, is knocked into the ditch by the bootleggers’ patrol ear. Subsequently he arrests the daughter of the city’s leading politician, and is disrated as a consequence. Smarting under this treatment, he decides it doesn’t pay to he honest, and starts taking *’ easy money ” from various speakeasies. This immediately involves him with his captain, a rigidly incorruptible officer, with the politician’s daughter with whom the captain is in love, and with sundry crooks who suspect Tracy of double-crossing them. A raid on one of the “clubs” that Tracy is protecting, involving the girl in the killing of a crook, and a gang revenge that brings about the death of Tracy's little nephew, all lead up to one of the grimmest and most thrilling climaxes in film history. Sally Eilers as the girl and Ralph Bellamy as the police captain head the cast, and Dickie Moore, El Brendel, Allan Dinehart, Charles Grapewin, Ralph Morgan, Cornelius Keefe, Frank Conroy and others contribute fine performances.