REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 11

REGENT THEATRE

BEAUTY IN TEOHNIOOLOUR PILM. In "God's Country and the Woman," which sereens at the Regent to-morrow, Warner Bros., who gave talkiug pictures to the world, dnvented the screen musical and created the vogue for iilm biographies, have done it again. This time they have taken technicolour aud made it natural. The result is an almost unbelievably beautiful production oi' James Oliver Ourwood;s famous novel "God's Country and the Woman.'' Taking his caist, headed by Georgu Brent and Beverly Roberts, an the great woods district of Washington, JDirector William Keighley transferred the thrilling romance and stirring action of the novel to the ecreen. The millions who have delighted in the 1 novel wa 11 get an entireiy new thrill when they see this picture, for the colour photography is far more natural and beautiful than anything ever filmed and the director and players, including hundxeds of real lumberjacks used in the melee, have cau'ght the spiiit of . the book and become not merely competent actors. but living personiflcaticns of tho author'is character. Steve Russell, as played by George Brent, is the happy-go-lucky playboy partner of the Russett Lumber Co. His brother Jeff, portrayed by Robert Barrat as a rough and ready lumberman wdthout the proverbial heart of gold, has Steve kidnapped and brought to the lumber camp in the woods, after Steve has upset a crooked deal by which Jeff had hoped to possess himself of the Crown Timberlands, his biggest xivals. Escaping from his kidnappers, Steve finds his way to the Crown Timberlands, where he ineets and falls in love with Jo Barton, the capable young woman who heads the rival company, played by that fasfc-rising newcomer to the screen, Beverly Roberts. Thrilling sequences, like the felling of giant trees, the pluuging.of a log train over the cliff and terrific log jams that threaien the lifo of the heroine, will keep th6 audience gasping at the combination of power and beanty. o"Mad Holiday" iscreens finally to-

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