MAORILAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 16 January 1920, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“THE TIGER MAN.’

This picture, to be shown at the Theatre to-morrow night, is an absorbing narrative of the desert- in the days Of the gold rush. Every incident in “The Tiger Man” is dramatic and thrilling, and in each case they exerta powerful heart appeal. The story teems with action —action that works up by degrees till a mighty climax terminates the photo-play, and brings nboiit a remarkably beautiful conclusion. Near the end of the last act there is a beautiful aud impressive scene in a church —there Hart as the redeemed outlaw brings back the clergyman’s wife—the wife who had given herself up to him, so as her husband and the caravan party of the desert might be saved.

THE CRISIS.”

This fine film will be displayed on Tuesday next. It is a Selig production with Thomas Santschi as Stephen Brice, the hero of Winston Churchill’s famous novel of the. same name, and Bessie Eytou as Virginia Carvel. The film adheres closely to the story of the jiovel and incidentally forms a fine historical record of the events and feelings which culminated in the American Civil War. Stephen is a Northerner who first arouses the antipathy of Virginia by outbidding her for a slave girl who is being sold. Stephen immediately after the purchase liberated the slave. The breach between Stephen ami Virginia widens through various other happenings especially caused by their different political outlooks. Notwithstanding this, however, they really are in love with each other, but their pride will not- let them admit, it. Then comes the- Civil War, and Stephen ioins the Northern forces in due

course. Virginia’s father aud friends are all fighting on tlic Southern side. A subsidiary interest attaches to the friendship of Judge Whipple and Vir-. giuin’s father. They, however, also hold different political views, and the

.utiltier is complicated by the fact that Whipple is Stephen’s employer. After u scries of misunderstandings the two lovers eventually come together and forget their differences. The nobility of the character of Stephen and the sweetness of Virginia are convincingly portrayed, while the picture itself is a valuable historical pageant.