'SUNRISE' COMING

Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 7

'SUNRISE' COMING

JANET CAYHOR FEATURED F. W. Murnau, the noted European director, scored one of his greatest successes with ‘ Sunrise,’ tho picture which is coming to the Strand Theatre on Friday. ‘ Sunrise ’ was produced by Fox Films, and is the first picture which Mr Murnau made in America.

The Murnau wizardry spread to the members of tho cast. Janet Gaynqr, who rose to enviable fame in ‘ Seventh Heaven,’ docs a piece of work here which even surpasses that superb performance, and Georgo O’Brien, who heretofore has merely been a fine upstanding hero, is made t ) show here that all the time he has had tho calibre of one of the truly great actors for the films. It merely remained for Murnau to bring it out.

The story is that of a young fanner who gets into the clutches or a siren from the city who was on a vacation. At her request he agrees to drown his young wife, so that he can go to tho city with his paramour. But when li - gets_ his wife out iu a boat he falters in the deed and falls in love with her all over again. After a second honeymoon in the city ho again gets her in the boat to take her home, when a violent storm overtakes them. Ho swims ashore when the_ boat sinks, and believing that his wife has been drowned, ho decides that the siren must die in revenge. The wife, however, is saved by a bundle of bullrushes which he had intended to use in saving himself while carrying out tho vampire’s plan of murder. Under Murnau’s hand this story develops into one of the most thrilling pictures imaginable.