TUDOR THEATRE

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3665, 8 February 1940, Page 5

TUDOR THEATRE

VICTOR McLAGLEN STARRED TONIGHT AND TOMORROW Once winner of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award for fine acting, and lauded for his great characterisations on the screen, Victor McLaglen stars in his latest production, Universal’s “ExChamp,” which comes to the Tudor Theatre tonight and tomorrow. McLaglen is noted for the rugged characterisations he enacts for the cameras. In “Ex-Champ” he appears as a broken-down, ex-cham-pion prize-fighter, proud of two possessions, They are a championship belt, and a worthless, snobbish son who disdains his father’s home and his rough and tough associates. Although “Ex-Champ” has as an atmosphere of the boxing ring and training quarters, it cannot be regarded a prize-fight story. It deals primarily with the sacrifice McLaglen makes to attempt to save the snobbish son when the son. is in danger. In the supporting cast will be seen Tom Brown, featured as an embryo fighter whom McLaglen grooms for a championship battle. Nan. Grey has the role of his daughter; Donald Briggs is the snobbish son; William Frawley is a training camp hanger-on; Constance Moore takes the part of a Park Avenue blue-blood in love with the son; and Samuel S. Hinds is a kindly boxing commissioner. On the same programme is “Fighting Gringo,” a thrilling Western picture starring George O’Brien.