AMUSEMENTS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 284, 4 January 1930, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

THE HASTINGS 'PICTURES. TALKIES AT THE COSY. "Tlie Yaliant," Fox Films latest all-talking drama, is the feature toniglit at the Cosy Theatre. Paul Muni is starred and receives able support from Marguerite Churchill, Johnny Mack Brown, and Henry Kolker. Tho story opens dramatically. Tliere is a shot, a door opens, and a man steals out, and in 'the next scene gives himself up to the police, is tried, condemned, aud sentenced to death. What is perplexing to all. concerned is that he will tell the authorities neither who he is nor why he killed the man. In the meantime, in Ohio. Mrs Douglas, a dear old lady, hecomes troubled over the likeness of tbe man to her son, Joe Douglas, who had left home some fifteen years before. Her daughter goes to New York and is able to see the condemned man, but as her brother Joe had left home when she was a child, she cannot be sure of his ident- • ity. It is elear that lie is a Douglas but the girl is convinced tliat the murderer is not her brother, and her m other is happy. The acting of Paul Muni is gripping. A well-varied programme, of sound supports is also screened.