ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3683, 27 August 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

JAMES OLIVER 'CURWOOD’S “THE COUNTRY BEYOND.”

An unusually fine photoplay, “The Country Beyond,” Fox Films screen version of James Oliver Curwood’s great novel, will bead a fine programme at the Town Hall to-night. Directed by Irving Cummings and with the beautiful Olive Borden in the stellar role, this picture proves to be a very fine entertainment. Curwood’s widely read novel has received splendid treatment at the hands of the producers and story, characterization and scenic effects are of absorbing interest. Of the latter it may be mentioned that many of the sequences were taken in the Mount Edith Cavelle region of the Canadian Rockies and shows country never filined before. The story deals with the orphan girl Valencia, who is the adopted daughter of Joe and Martha Lescur. The former is a brutal trapper, who abuses both his wife and daughter with extreme cruelty, which drives his daughter to New York and his wife to near-madness. But there is more than grim drama to this picture, for there is a very fine love story interwoven through the fabric of the drama and a great deal of humour of the kind that brings many laughs. The cast is unusually good, including as it does Halph Graves as the male lead, J. Farrell MacDonald as Sergeant Cassidy, and Gertrude Astor. Also “Howdy Duke” (comedy), Pathe News and N.Z. Topical. Usual prices. Crammed with the drama of a little pioneer family, tense with the thrills of a terrifying fight between a giant condor and a shepherd dog, tender with the loyalty of a dog to his master, a tingling story of the sheep-raising section of California, “The Night Cry,” with Rin-Tin-Tin, should delight Monday night’s audience. Prices as usual.