“CONVOY”
AT PRINCESS TO-MORROW Dorothy Mackaill, First National featured player, and Lawrence Gray have the leads in “Convoy,” the feature film to be shown at the Princess to-morrow, with an impressive supporting cast headed by Lowell Sherman, Buster Collier, lan Keith, Gail Kane and Vincent Serrano. Eddie Gribbon and Jack Ackroyd have the comedy roles with lone Holmes also featured in the list of supportingplayers. The picture is based on a short story by John Tainter Foote, and deals with the Navy’s service in the World War.
Joe Boyle, assistant director of “Mare Nostrum,’* acted as director. Several exteriors for the film were made in Washington and during the stay in the Capitol, the picture unit was presented to President Coolidge. Interiors were shot at the Cosmopolitan Studio, in. New York. Dealing also with the German system of espionage in the United States in 1917, the special made by Robert Kane for First National release will bid for front rank in the epics of the Great War, on the strength of some remarkable sequences of the Navy’s history making role in the conflict. The Navy Department co-operated with Mr. Kane on the picture and several sensational scenes of actual naval battles have beep included.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 149, 14 September 1927, Page 15
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204“CONVOY” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 149, 14 September 1927, Page 15
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