REGENT THEATRE
“QUIET WEEKEND” “Quiet Weekend,” the new Associated British picture presented by Pathe Pictures, which opens at the Regent Theatre on Saturday is the perfect example of how expert casting and authentic backgrounds can reproduce all the successful ingredients of a popular play with the added action and pictorial adjuncts that can only be achieved in a film version.
Esther McCracken’s record-break-ing play ran for three and a half years in London, and became known as “the play that beat the blitz.” Now, Warwick Ward, producer, and Harold French, the well-known director, have turned out a most polished film version of this outstanding stage success. Three of the original members of the cast of the play, Frank Cellier, Marjorie Fielding and George Thorpe; have their original stage roles, and Derek Farr and Barbara White were selected to play the other important star roles.
Frank Cellier gives a sparkling performance as the local J.P., who, much against his better judgment, is involved in a salmon-poaching expedition, as a result of a bet made by his friend, Arthur Royd, who, with his family, is spending a weekend at their cottage nearby.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 58, 25 July 1947, Page 4
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