MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 24 January 1928, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

.. "THE SEA TIGLxt. ' John Francis Dillon, director of "The Sea Tiger," now showing at the Maoriland Theatre, on Wednesday, had to spend three weeks in a sou-wester, and rubber boots during the filming of the production, which stars Milton Sills. The picture deals with life in a Spanish fishing village. There are many brilliantly executed beach scenes, with the surf pounding on the rocks, a violent storm at sea weathered by Sills in an open boat, and.a heavy rain-storm. Sills, Mary Astor, his leading lady, and the other actors had to get wet—but Dillon stayed in raincoat, sou'wester and boots. Tremendous scenes of a storm at sea, tosing about a tiny fishing fleet in the Canary Islands, are only a part of this gripping production.

ANOxHEE ENGLISH PICTURE.

"THE HOUSE OF HARNEY."

Only a real old. salt could have written "The House of Marney," a pulsethumping, breath-taking yarn of lovers and blackguards amongst the yachting fraternity of the Essex coast. The film is admirably cast with Alma Taylor in the lead, an amateur, yachtswoman of some' renown, and -will bo shown on Friday, At the local theatre. Mr Goodwin asserts that'"The House of Marney" is the best picturisation of any of his novels he has yet seen. Cecil Hepworth, another distinguished amateur yachtsman, directed. In other surroundings some of the situations in the story might have seemed a little melodramatic, but in Mersea where the action takes place they would not only have been possible but probable. Cecil Hepworth, the director, has, been remarkably clever in capturing* the atmosphere of this queer spot for the screen. The spirit of the Marneys seem to pervade the Island, and from the moment of their arrival, the artists

playing in this film became conscious of it. In a very short time they were * actually living the parts assigned to them.