JOHN BUCHANI TO DRAMATISE ENGLAND'S STORY
Mr. John Buchan, the author, has agreed to write an English historical drama tor the screen. The title chosen is “Conquest/* and the theme of the story will he the English ideal of Service as exemplified in the motto of the JPrince of W ales. In broad outline “Conquest/’ will trace the fortunes of tioo families through different phases of English history, beginning with the Norman Conquest and endwith the Great War, so that the result should be a picture on the same heroic plane as “The Birth of a Nation,” but infinitely greater by reason of the infinitely greater events it will illustrate. So far no director has been named for this picture, but if it is to fall to anyone now working in England the logical selection would be Alfred Hitchcock f and if an English director now abroad is to be reimported then one would first look to Frank Lloyd.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 80, 25 June 1927, Page 24
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159JOHN BUCHANI TO DRAMATISE ENGLAND'S STORY Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 80, 25 June 1927, Page 24
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