PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE
THE BLACK BIRD Lon Chaney effects a startling and uncanny transposition in changing from one character to the other in his dual role in “The Blackbird,” his new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. His parts in this thrilling drama of London and the Limehouse underworld are those of a notorious gangster and a crippled mission worker. Chaney’s representation of the dwarf Quasimodo, in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” was a triumph of grotesque portraiture, but his weird defiance of physical laws in “The Blackbird” is an amazing revelation of what the brilliant actor can accomplish. His new porduction, in which Owen Moore and Renee Adoree also appear, is now showing at the Prince Edward Theatre. As a second feature “The Blue Eagle” is screened and proves to be a thrilling story of a city underworld feud. It is crammed with stirring action, humour and pathos. Always in the forefront is the stalwart form of George O’Brien, cast as George D’Arcy. Loving him is Ja*net Gaynor. Opposite him is William Russell.
Overshadowing the whole is Robert Edeson, seen as a lovable parish arbiter with a heart as big as his body John Ford directed the production and many of the sequences are tied up with the American Navy.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 19, 13 April 1927, Page 14
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