BROTHERS REUNITED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 58, 10 March 1938, Page 3

BROTHERS REUNITED

AFTER ALMOST 20 YEARS. "THUNDER TRAIL” FOR REGENT. The story of two brothers, separated fur almost two decades, and brought hack toegther under strange and stirring circumstances, is absorbingly dealt with in •‘Thunuer Trail,” which opens at the Regent Theatre on Saturday. The story is unfolded in a setting of roaring guns, thundering hooves and lightning action, in a location that brings back memories of the old Wesl. The main role of “Thunder Trail” is portrayed by Gilbert Roland, who plays his first Western part with a great dash and verve. Featured with aim are Charles Bickford, as a desperado chief; Marsha Hunt, as a miner’s daughter, James Craig, as his brother; J. Carrol Naish as a Mexican prospector; Monte Blue as Bickford’s lieutenant; and Barlowe Borland as an old miner. Roland and Craig are separated in their early boyhood when Blackford and his gang raid their father’s wagon train and kill off everyone but the two boys. They leave Roland for dead, and carry off Craig, to whom Bickford has taken a liking. A Mexican prospector finds Roland and brings him up; while Craig is raised by Bickford. Finally their paths cross when Roland and Naish wander into a little town which Bickford and his men are ruling, and enter a struggle to help Borland and his daughter, Miss Hunt, protect their mine. The two brothers have a terrific fight together before they discover their relationship; after which they join forces to cleanse the town of Bickford and his gang. Roland and Naish, with the help of Craig, finally let Bickford know that his murder of their father is going to be avenged; and in a series of smashing battles they rid the district of the outlaws.

The unforgettable drama of a tiny group of persons marooned by the relentlessly rising waters of a mighty river in the flood is told in Paramount’s “On Such a Night,” which is the associate picture, with Karen Morley, Grant Richards, Roscoe Karns and Eduardo Cianelli heading the large cast of film favourites.