THRILLING STORY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 566, 24 June 1933, Page 7

THRILLING STORY

"THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEYIL" GRAND, NEXT SATURDAY i Interest, suitably varied, is a.wakened at the start in RKO-Radio Pictures' British production, "The World, the Flesh and the Devil," and the film never loses its grip until the thrilling and eminently satisfying climax is reached "The World, the Flesh and th'e Devil," which opens at the Grand Theatre on Saturday, July 1, ds a neat crime story, told with clear narrative skill, capably characterised and realistically presented in unsual dockside settings, the film gaining its title from a Thames waterside pub, known as "The World, the Flesh' and the Devil" Nicholas Brophy, a crooked lawyer, learns from his dying mother that he is the illegitimate -son of Sir James Hall He contrdves to cheat the baronet's rightful heir, Robert, hy faking evidence to prove th'a.t he and Robert w.ere exchanged at birth . • The only person who can disprove his claim is Mrs. Stranger, a typical dockland innkeeper. He effeetively silences the old lady hy strangling her, but N&mesis in the shape of the dead woman's son tracks OBrophy down, and eventually beards him in his late mothers dockside pub, "The World, the Flesh and the Devil." Here Nature takes a hand, for just as the son has obtained possession of the letter which shall prove the claims of the rightful heir, an abnormal tide rises on the Thames and metes out to the villain his just deserts. w _ : ! Jj: