Clive Brook and Victoria Hopper Co-starred

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 22, 27 January 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

Clive Brook and Victoria Hopper Co-starred

"LONELY ROAD" FASCINATING AND ENTERTAINING (Mayfair: Screening Saturday.) A fascinating love story, dashing adventure, thrilling gun-run-ning, music, song and catchy humour, combined with clever acting, makes "Lonely Road’ * a picture at once exciting and highly entertaining. Co-starring Clive Brook and Victoria Hopper, the action of "Lonely Road" shifts from London to a Leeds Palais-de-Danse, Scotland Yard Headquarters, and sea coast locales, thus providing ample variety of settings. Clive Brook, popular hero oi a hundred films, in the rolo of an ex-commander of a submarine, now turned Secret Service, is refreshingly different from his customary Hollywood characterisations. He has starred opposite many famous sirens of the screen; Tallulah Baukhead, Marlene Dietrich, Diana Wynvard, Ruth Chatterton and Madeleine Carroll, but it has remained for this, his latest English production to present the Real Brook in the type of role he was born to play. Opposite him, Victoria Ilopper gives a delightful performance as Molly Gordon, the dance-hall partner, a role giving full play to her dramatic powers, which have never before been seen to better advantage. Another outstanding piece of work is that of Frederick Peisley as Molly's brother, Bill, who unwittingly gets mixed up with the gun-runners, only to be ultimately acquitted through the efforts of Clive Brook. Eventually love receives its reward in the happy union of Molly and the commander, but not before a spate of thrilling melodrama runs its course, keeping the audience in exciting suspense, a terrific car crash, a thrilling I chase down a cliff, and at the bottom —a fierce fight. All these combine to .make "Lonely Road" one of the most ' action-packed offerings of the year. I A strong supporting cast includes ! Nora Swinburne, at once attractive and I charmingly clever; Malcolm Keen, as the half-wit professor; Laurence Han- ' way, Ethel Coleridge, Warburton Gamj ble, and Den's Wyndham.