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Dedicated to the work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and all the other people, both actors and technicians who helped them make those wonderful films.

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April
26th 		NEXT WEEK April
26th

"The Great Barrier"

starring
RICHARD ARLEN
BARRY MACKAY and LILLI PALMER
The courageous heroic story
of men who built a railway
that spanned a continent from
end to end - and wrote a page
of history - with their lives!
 
A tremendous dynamic drama, full of irristible power, of iron men
fighting iron mountains.
  Two young gamblers join in the titanic struggle of the
making of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The railway meets
a set-back ; strikes, riots and bloodshed ensue. The position
is desperate, volunteers are needed to find a pass through
the Rockies.

  See what happens to the soul of a man who had touched
the depths of cowardice and then, sick in mind and body,
rises to the highest act of heroism that is recorded ...
... leaving hapiness to his friend and the girl they
both love - and giving the railroad its chance of victory.
  Tremendous thrlls are to be seen in the spectacular and dangerous
blasting of the mighty rocks; the wrecking of a train in a Canadian
swamp; a devastating forest fire which sweeps everything before it
and an exciting mutiny among the railroad workers.

IT'S MIGHTY IT'S GRIPPING !! IT'S INSPIRING !!!

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