MAORI LAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXIII, 6 December 1920, Page 2

MAORI LAND PICTURES.

To-morrow another episode of "The Great Gamble” will be produced, and should cause a deal of interest. Other films of a stirring nature- will also be screened, and the programme is one which should be appreciated. “ON OUR SELECTION.’’ Raymond Longford, who made ‘ ‘ The Sentimental Bloke,” has just completed a seven-reel picture from the book that made Steele Rudd famous, “On Our Selection,” and it will bo screened for the first time in Otaki on Wednesday, under the direction of £■ J. Carroll. Everyone who has read or heard of Steele Rudd’s “On Our Selection” will await with interest the advent of this fine film, which is said to be as true to type and nature as the original version of tho book. “On Our Selection” is full of merriment.

ranging from quiet humour to boisterous fun. But it is all natural fun, derived from natural characters under natural conditions.. That is tho great charm ol the film —the things llmt happen to “Dad” and “Mum” and “Dave” and “Joe” and “Kate,” and all the rest of the Ruud family, are just the things that might happen to anyone under the same ciieuiustunccs. lho scenes of everyday life on a backbloek

selection contain a mysterious pull on the heart striugs ol' Australasians, whether they bo city or country bred. Mr Longford, the producer, has iunt a master touch to the many poignantly pathetic scenes of the story, while his huuding of the comedy situations rivals the laugh- producing piuelivitics of Mack Bennett.