AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

iVERYBODYS PICTURES. TOLSTOY’S ‘]RESURRECTION” TO-NIGHT. Tolstoy’s “Resurrection,” the ilcsli-and-blood drama of Prince and peasant, and profane, brings Rod la Rocque and Dolores del Rio to the screen of the Princess Theatre tonight in the Inspiratipn-Edwin Carewe film version offered by United Artists. The most widely read classic of modern times, ...eiijoyed . wherever people read books, translated from the Russian of Leo Telstoy into eleven , languages in the past thirty years, “Resurrection” is, of unusual interest to film-goers because it is a drama strong and absorbing enough to have made Tolstoy In-loved by the masses of the world. Edwin Carewe satisfies a sev-enteen-year-old ambition at last in bringing to the screen this story, which has fascinated him since he played Prince Dmitri himself in a stock company in Kansas. ' The very human story of “Ressurrection,” the film, is identical with vifat of the no major liberties having been ..taken, even with the logical ending. There is the despoilation of the Prince’s pure love for the peasant mqid, '../the 1 .evil companionship and the mad carousing of the Prince at St'. Petersburg, and’ the Prince on the jury that tries Katusha Maslova, the girl ho ; himself betrayed. Finally, there is that grand march to Siberia, Prince and peasant alike laboring over the steppos as the chains of exiles clank and hoofs thud on the hard-baked roads. The final scenes are exact renditions of those in Tolstoy’s novel. Edwin Carewe had in Holywood the invaluable assistance of Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the author of “Resurrection,” while making the film. As a matter of fact, the Count portrays his father in a prologue to the film proper. Special orchestral selections. Prices Circle 2s, stalls Is 6d. This picture is recoin mo mteiT by the censor more especially for adult audiences. .