The Archive · 1938

Miss Harvey

Surgeon "Anna Lee i... \John Loder Francis Sullivan "Frank Collier Desmond Tester; Mhene Seyler William Dewhurst Drusilla Wills Jerry Vernó {James Pirrie ... Arthur Goullett Peter. Ball, Harrigan Captain y any Quinn G. Stoker An, unusual setting for most of the action is contained in the current attraction at the Cathay Theatre—"Non-Stop New York"—a transatantic air liner ón a maiden voyage from England to New You holding the centre of the stage while the actors play their parts on board. A ÍL British film, "Non-Stop New York"

thas the quality of holding its audience's attention through the scree ing, and the acting of all the cast is good, although one feels at times that Miss Anna Lee and Mr. John Loder are rather overshadowed the histrionic ability of Mr. Frank Collier as Sam Pryor, the Cockney "bookie-curn-blackmailer." and Mr.

Fraheis Sullivan as the suave crook Hugo Brandt. There is plenty of action in the film, and humour plays an important part in most of. the scenes, although the story deals with HI crooks and the saving of an innocent Py) man from the electric chair. The story. portrays the adventures of a British chorus girl in New York, who is the one witness wife can save man from the "chair." She is sent "to Englánd. however, and as the result of an S. O. S. by the condemned man's lawyer, stows away on board the air liner. Also on board are a Scotland Yard detective, a crook who Lis the real murderer, a boy prodigy, amd a dishonest bookmaker, who persists in tipping the' stewards with bad half-crowns.. The real murderer attempts to stop the chorus girl from arriving in New York, but in the end, after many exciting episode she manages to save the man, an Not being content with that, "arrests thë- detective for a life sentence:

In addition to this picture there is a technicolour film of the cor-

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