GREAT MYSTERY FILM.

Shannon News, 29 September 1925, Page 2

GREAT MYSTERY FILM.

MORE WEIRD THAN “THE BAT-” One of the greatest mystery plays of the vear was “The Rear Car,” by Edward Rose. Many were of the opinion that it was the best mystery play sinec “The Bat,!’ The Goldwyn Company made the screen version of this mystifying piece. “Red lights,” as the screen story is called is coming to the Shannon Theatre- on Wednesday. The mysterious complications keep. a ; tense Interest throughout, and hold the audience in a state of suspense until the very last scene. During the production of the stage play, members of the audience shrieked and gasped at the til rilling situations. The greater part of the action transpires in the rear car of the Continental Limited. “LOVE AND SACRIFICE.” Famed in poetry and in prose, the historical ride of Paul Revere was never before invested with the significance, the thrills and the daring that it is in D. W. Griffith’s “Love and Sacrifice,” the romantic epic of the War of Independence, which will be screened in Shannon on Friday. There have been horse races pictured before; the movies have seen more than one bit of fine horsemanship; but —and this is said with the universal agreement of the newspaper ,critics>—never has 'the /Silver sheet known such a thrilling ride as that of Paul Revere, in Griffith’s masterpiece. Ivcvero is shown wailing in the moonlight on the Charlestown shore, “booted and spurred and ready, to ride.” The two lanterns flash, giving warning that the enemy are coming by sea, and then begins a ride through Middlesex county which brings every beholder to his feet. Over fences, stone walls and streams, across pastures, down lanes, and along the highway’ Revere’s noble steed pounds his way at a furious gallop to the accompaniment of the heart heats of an audience aroused to'the loftiest possible state of patriotic fervour.