PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 221, 18 September 1934, Page 10

PLAZA THEATRE

“WILD CARGO.” For sheer novelty, humour and excitement, Frank Buck’s “Wild Cargo,” RKO-Radio Picture, showing finally at the Plaza Theatre to-day, surpasses anything of a similar nature which w r e have seen since and including “Bring ’Em Back Alive!” This is a strong stamp of approval but highly merited, indeed. An RKO-Radio picture, “Wild Cargo” follows Buck and an interpid party into the jungles of Ceylon, Sumatra, India and Malaya on the perilous adventures as the wild animal collector carries out his order from an American zoo to capture, and deliver alive, a number of rare specimens. The experiences accompanying his strange work, provide an absorbing picture , charged ■with excitement and thrills. Buck liberating himself from a python’s crushing coils entwined about his arm . . . capturing a clouded leopard by severing a limb from a tree where it had taken refuge . . . handling a man-eating tiger in an eight-foot pit where it had been trapped . . . cornered by an escaped king cobra and recapturing the deathdealing snake after a personal struggle . . . incidents like these, give each onlooker a fast-heating pulse and fluttering heart as Frank Buck gathers alive his “Wild Cargo!” “Wild Cargo” is superior to ordinary jungle pictures in the novelty of its stirring events as well as in its variety of episodes. A hair-raising combat between a. vicious black panther and a thirtyfoot python is recommended by this reviewer as the swiftest and most decisive animal fight ever eyed by the cameras. “All Men Are Enemies.” The screen version of Richard. Aldington’s epic romance, “All Men Are Enemies,” opens to-morrow at the Plaza Theatre. Advance reports indicate that the film catches the superb romantic spirit of the novel. Helen Twelvetrees portrays the role of the beautiful Viennese girl opposite Hugh Williams, an Englishman who is a newcomer to the American screen. Both players have their greatest screen roles »n<l reoprts indicate that their characterisation in this film will lead to stardom. The film relates the story of how these two people fall in love amid the languorous beauty of the island of Capri. Cruelly separated by war, their efforts to find each other are in vain, and each gives up the quest as hopeless. Years later, each returns to the scene of their first meeting, Capri, with the hope of finding at least the solace of a glorious memory. Fate plays a hand, and their chance reunion culminates the glorious story of undying love. Although this is Hugh Williams’ first, appearance in an American-made film, he has already enjoyed an enviable career as a stage and screen star in his native England. American stage audiences had their first glimpse of Williams in the role of Captain Stanhope in “Journey’s End.” Tn support of Williams and Miss Twelvetrees, the cast boasts of such names as Mona Barrie, Herbert Mundin, Henry Stephenson, Walter Byron, Una O'Connor. Matt Moore. Halliwell Hobbes, Rafaela Ottiano and Mathilde Comont. George Fitzmaurice directed from the screen play by ( Samuel Hoffenstein and Lenore Coffee.