STIRRING BRITISH DRAMA

Evening Star, Issue 21751, 20 June 1934, Page 1

STIRRING BRITISH DRAMA

GRAND'S COMING ATTRACTION ‘ Channel Crossing,’ a Gaumont-Brit-ish picture, directed by Milton Rosmer from astory by Angus MacPhail and AV. P. Lipscombe, will be the main new feature at the Grand Theatre on Friday. The strong, dramatic story is interpreted by a carefully-selected cast; headed by Matheson Lang, as a multimillionaire financier, i and Constance Cummings as his secretary. Anthony Bushell is her lover, who is responsible for tragic happenings. Edmund Gwenn enjoys a feature role as a passenger—a Lancashire man of substance paying his first visit to France. Max Miller, really an actor but making believe that he is a commercial traveller, is another leading figure in comedy scenes, cleverly interspersed with the drama. Others in the cast are Dorothy Dickson, Nigel Bruce, Douglas Jeffries, talented artists all. The story is of dramatic and tragic happenings on a cross-Channel run between Dover and Calais. The plot covers the failure of an international financier to overcome the consequences of an issue of false scrip and, at the same time, to face the tragedy of his rejection by the woman he’loves, a tragedy deepened by his realisation that she loves the man whom he had nearly murdered. The denouement is thrilling in the extreme..

The picture, which, is released by Fox Films for the Gaumont-British Corporation, is distinctly unusual in treatment, and is brilliantly handled.