FROLICS WIT HA GENTLE PLAYMATE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

FROLICS WIT HA GENTLE PLAYMATE

CHARLIE MURRAY COURTS DEATH WITH A GORILLA

There are many more pleasant occupations than playing tag with a nine foot, four hundred pound gorilla, but Charlie Murray and Fred Kelsey enacting the roles of Mulligan and Garrity, the comedy detectives in “The

“Gorilla.” First National’s screen version of the famous Ralph Spence mys-tery-comedy. did just that in a \acant house and on a high embankment. The situations that made “The Gorilla” such a thrilling ami eerie stage play have been enhanced in the screen version by the lighting, photography and added situations. “The Gorilla” used in this feature appears strong enough to tear half a dozen men to pieces for morning exercise, yet Murray had the time of his life plaving around with him. In fact, it might have been fatal had he been caught. On- of the thrilling scenes is where the “gorilla,” after chasing him for several miles, finally saves his life, only to .. . ! But it’s criminal to give away the mystery. “The Gorilla m its stage form was classed as a clever and fast offering. TSie picture boasts an all star cast including Alice Day, Tully Marshall, Claude Gillingwater, Walter PulgM! l , Gaston Glass and many others 'The Gorilla” is played by himself. 1 his picture comes to the New Grand at an early date —watch for it!