PLAZA THEATRE
“EAST OF JAVA.” One of the most thrilling and tense of all jungle productions is Universal’:= “East of Java,” starring Charles Bickford, which opens to-day at the Plaza Theatre. Bickford, cast as an American gangster fleeing from East Africa with “G” men on his trail, champions seven cjwering human beiiigs, including a beautiful women, against seven lions, when a tramp schooner is wrecked on the reefs of a jungle isle a hundred miles from the nearest civilisation. This is the film in which Bickford was attacked by a crazed lion and nearly died of his wounds. In the cast are Elizabeth Young, Frank Albertson, Leslie Fenton, Clarence Muse, and many other noted players of stage and screen. The story opens with Bickford fleeting the East African port of Simon. Sao in the tramp schooner Sei Dragon, Leslie Fenton, master. The ship is shipping, beside human cargo, a consignment of lions and other jungle beasts, to America. A tropical hurricane sweeps the ship on to reefs, humans and beasts escape to the island, and the fight for the survival of the fittest starts.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 12
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