“YPRES” IS MAKING PICTORIAL HISTORY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

“YPRES” IS MAKING PICTORIAL HISTORY

AN AUSTRALIAN VIEW NEW BRITISH FILM The Movie Editor of the Sydney “Sun" declares that “Ypres,” the big British war film, has made pictorial history. “One watches “Ypres” at the Theatre Royal with feelings of awe and admiration. “It is doubtless one of the most realistic reconstructions of any phase of the great struggle ever attempted. Carried through with the co-operation of the British War Office, and passed and approved by His Majesty’s Army Council, the film thus bears the stamp of authority. In every sense it is an outstanding production of its type—it is pictorial history. THE OLD CONTEMPTIBLES “Commencing with the first great battle .of Ypres and the holding back of von Kluck’s army by the Old Contemptibles, the film takes the audience through the second battle of Ypres, and, omitting St. Eloi and the June, 191 G. fighting, shows the trench warfare leading to the summer and autumn fighting of 1917, the siege of Passchendaele, and the last final assault which swept the enemy away from the city’s gates for the remainder of the war. “Several instances of the winning of the Victoria Cross on land and in the air are graphically depicted. About ■J,OOO feet of the film was actually taken in wartime, and includes the King’s visit to the front. “This film story of the ‘immortal salient,’ as it is termed, is well worth | seeing, and the film deserves its suci cess.” George Weston, one of the most popular magazine writers in America, i provided the inspiration for “Taxi! Taxi!” Film rights were bought by Universal, and a picturisation of it was directed by Melville Brown, with Edward Everett Horton and Marian Nixon in the fatured rules.