"SUEZ" IS MEMORABLE."
Produced, with the magnitude pbisible only qn the screen, one of th« most memorable pictures ever, to icome out of Hollywood is - the ■ Darryl' F^ Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox, productioa "Suez." "Suez" is said. ,to be 7 a great picture. In. spectacle, > and sheer entertainment," it ris declared-to be unsurpassed. -■ The ;■ story -. tells of the amazing Ferdinand de Lesseps".who dreamed of .creating the short route to the East, sought vainly by Columbus arid Magellan, by;xtearirtg: continents apart and joining the- Mediterranean with the Red Sea. The .great canal he built has become the "jugular vein" of the world. Out of/choking..sand, from-the: clutcfr of: the'raiding; Bedouin, ;in the face of the vterrifying simoon—with blood, tears, and' passion —de Lesseps, built his • canaL driven ?to realise -the:: dxeam>men:l ;!scoffed^:'at. Tyronel Powergivesrealism tothe central character, iWithjlioretta tYouhg^and Annabella, appealing^ in; the feminixut -leads/. .■•■:-..- '' '■* K>> ■•-■ z '-:>-'^ ;;'.-';^' ,^:' .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16
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144"SUEZ" IS MEMORABLE." Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16
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