REGENT THEATRE
"LOST HORIZON" • "Lost Horizon" screens finally toUlgllt. "Elcpliant Boy,'* whicb screens at tlie lli'gcut to-morrow, is more tlian a mere filin. It is au objcet Ipsscn— au objoct-lesson denionstrating that all tlie lngh-power'ed equipment of the studio is not indispensable to the making of a reaJly great film. "Elephant Boy" hns been made almost entirely outdoors. No elaborate aids of incandescent ligbting, of lavish setting, were enlistod in its making. A'et the film stands 011 a peak of omiiioneo in spito of it all — or rathor, perhaps, becauso of it. For its setting is tho formidablo magmli- ' cence oi' India's mountain and jungle, ' and its east is eompo.stM:l oi simplo characters in the giant elephants of India and tlieir all-wise, .understanding ' and gentle mabout9.- The storv does ! not rcly upon ingenious subtleties lor \ its elfect; it does not have to. Kip- [ liug's 1 'Toomai '- of tlio Elephants" ' fur1 nished rfcs basiB and from that inateria! | has been made % splendid hira.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 6
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