OPERA HOUSE.
r ' ' • ■ ' I REX BEACH'S "THE BARRIER." A stirring, virile story of the far North of Alaska, rational in treatment and with an undercurrent of delicious humour as a fitting foil to its tense dramatic natures, comes to the screen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picturization of Rex Beach's widely read novel, "The Barrier," to he shown at the Opera House tonight, with a distinguished cast including Lionel Barrymore, Norman Kerry, H. B. Walthall and Marceline Day. The brilliant character studies of this quartette are drawn with artistic insight. The theme of Rex Beach's novel is well known. A | young army officer is transferred to , an Arctic outpost and there falls in : love with a beautiful girl„ whom he ; supposes to he the daughter of the i village fafctor. His discovery that ' she is a half casle Indian, and the arrival of her father, a villainous seaman, after an absence of twenty years, lead the story to its terriffic | climax, when the girl's sweetheart fights a tremendous hattle with the ' enraged skipper on his ship, while [ it slowly crushed hetween towering mountains of ice. This scene is one of the most remax-kable in screen history. The wisdom of giving the principle rbles to such sterling artists as Walthall, Barrymore and Kerry, is eviden'ced in the picture's big emotional scenes. Sequences that might have suffered in less capahle hands were by their dramatic 'artistry, made forceful and convin,cing. Added to the enthralling nature of the story, are spectacular photographic scenes, and hair-rais- ] ing incidents. "The Barrier," is an t achievement of which Metro-Gold-rwyn-Mayer may well be proud.
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North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 2
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265OPERA HOUSE. North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 2
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