REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 132, 21 June 1937, Page 11

REGENT THEATRE

BEAUTY IN TECHNICOLOUR FILM. In "God's Country and the Woman, which screens at the Regent to-nighi, Warner Bros., who gave talking pictures to the world, invented the screen musical and created the vogue for film biographies, have done it again. This time they have taken technieolour aud i made it natural. The result is an almosl unbelievably beautiful production of James Oliver Oprwood's famous novel "God's Country and the Woman.'' Taking his cast, fieaded by George Brent , and Beverly Roberts, an the great woods district of Washington, Director William Keighley transferred the thrilling romance and stirring action of the novel to the screen. The millions who have delighted in tho novel will get an entirely 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 hundieds of real luinberjacKs used in the melee, have caught the spirit of the book and beeome not merely competent actors. but living personificaticns of the author'g 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 Eobert Barrat as a rough and ready lumberman without 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 liimself of the Crown Timberlands, his biggest rivals. Escaping from his kidnappers, Steve finds hip way to the Crown Timberlands, where 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 Roberts. Thrilling sequences, like the felling of giant trees, the plunging of a log train .iver the cliff and terrific log jams that Lhreaien the life of the heroine, will keep the audience gasping at the combination of power and beauty.