MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 675, 30 October 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Travelpgues and dramas have drenched the screen with the spray of South Sea beaches until the filmgoer imagines that he knows everyl angle from which a palm can ibe photographed. Then an Australian, Mr. Charles Chauvel, makes "In the Wake of the Bounty," and presents the Pacific under a strange and cloudy beauty sueh as has never before heen filmed. Mr. Chauvel, however, is more concerned with the savage languor of the tropics; he masses the brilliance of wild dances and flowers to show the pathetic contrast between the islands which link that famous mutiny — Tahiti and Pitcairn. The first part of the film is a glamorous reconstructiott of history, with young Errol Flynni playing the part of Fletcher Christian, Mayne Lynton that of Bligh, and Victor Gouriet that of the blind fiddler who tells the tale. The scenes aboard ship are effectively done; then, by filming th'e journ: y made down the Pacific by the Chauvels themselves, Pitcairn comes into view and the title of the picture falls intof its proper place. The latter sequenees of the film admirably bear out the intention of Expeditionary Films, Ltd., to chart the unknown tracts of the world. Pitcairn of which th'e serious and religious people, appalling' surf and pi'-e-cipices, prim houses and vegetahle patches are shown in absorbing detail, is one of those places which, as the steamer route moves farther out, will be less frequently visited. Drama as well as beauty has been caught by the film; human romances, swift tragedy, interludes as exciting as any fiction enthrall the audience.