PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 240, 11 October 1938, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“BORDER G-MAN” AND “I MET MY LOVE AGAIN.” George O'Brien, the screen’s fore most outdoor star, portrays the rug ged type of role which has made hin famous in RKO-Radio’s “Border G Man,” a high speed action drama o the south-west, screening to-day a the Plaza Theatre. Specialising in stal wart, red-blooded characterisation during most of his screen caree; O'Brien has an ideal part in this oi fering as the husky, resourceful am deadly Government agent. When th Department of Justice learns that ruthless ring of smugglers are send ing horses, ammunition, and trainei soldiers with “ex-con” backgrounds I a nation at war, in direct violation o United States’ neutrality laws, O’Briei is assigned to the case. The story re voives around his efforts to round U| the entire gang, confiscate the muni tions and help the Coast Guard lean the identity of the vessels being use, in he contraband shipments. Larain Johnson, 17-year-old player, makes he. debut as O’Brien’s leading lady ii “Border G-Man,” while such well known players as John Miljan, Ra; Whitley, Rita Laßoy, William Stellin; and Edgar Dearing are cast in pro minent supporting roles. Rapidly de veloping into one of the finest youn; actors in Hollywood, Henry Fonda i the star in “I Met My Love Again, screening, on the same programme. Hi acting throughout as an ascentic youn; man who develops into a professo submerged in his biological studies i. always intelligent and frequently ex cellent. The story, of two youn; people who fall in love and who hop wistfully for romance, takes a suddei turn when the girl, Joan Bennetl elopes with a madcap writer, Alai Marshall, and spends ten years of he life in Paris, several of them as : widow after her husband is shot in i drunken quarrel.