MIGHTY “MICHAEL STROGOFF”
Long considered as wonderful picture material, but pronounced “too big, even for the screen,” which is supposed to know no limitations, the famous Jules Verne melodrama, “Michael Strogoff,” coming to the Regent on May 20, seems to have more than justified the daring of its producers and their lavish expenditure of time and money. More than eight months were spent in filming the pictures; more than 6,000 people were employed in the cast which included Tartar tribesmen, Cossacks, Russian cavalry and hundreds of aristocratic couples who dance the national “Krakowia” at the grand ball in the palace of the Czar. A large portion of the picture is in natural colour, which is especially effective in the scenes of barbaric Oriental splendour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 15
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124MIGHTY “MICHAEL STROGOFF” Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 15
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