REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 131, 19 June 1937, Page 11

REGENT THEATRE

BEATJTY IN TECHNICOLOUR FILM. In "God's Country and the Woman," which. scroens at the Regent to-night, Warner Bros., who gave taiking pictures to the world, anvented the screen musical and created the vogue for hina biographies, have done it again. This time they have taken technicolour and made it natural. The result is an almost unbelievably beautiful production of James Oliver Gurwood's famous novel "God's Country and the Woman." Taking his cast, headed by George Brent and Beverly Koberts, an the great woods district of Washington, Director William Keighley transferred the thrilling romance and stirring action of the novel to the ecreen. The millions who have delighted in the novel wall get an entirely new thrill when they see this picture, for the colour photography is fai* more natural and beautiful than anything ever filmed and the director and players, including hundreds of real lulnberjacks used in the melee, have caught the spirit of the boolf and becomo not merely competent actors. but living personificatichs of the author 's 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 Kobert Barrat as a rough and ready lumberman without the proverbial hoart 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 liimself of the Crown Timberlands, his biggest rivals. Escaping from his' kidnappers, Steve finds his way to the Crown Timberlands, whera he meets >and fails in love with Jo Barton, the capable young woman who heads the rival company, played by that fast-rising newcomer to the screen, Beverly Boberts. Thrilling. sequences, like the felling of giant trees, the plunging of a log train over the cliff and terrific log jams that threaten the life of the heroine, will keep the audience gasping at the cornbination of power and beauty.