BRITANNIA
“THE SAP” Kenneth Harlan, last seen amid the sizzling melodramatics of “The Fighting Edge,” triumphs in a new field in the title role of “Tlje Sap,” the Master Picture which will be shown to-night at the Britannia Theatre. Here is a picture so. accurately true to life that it grips with more tensity than any melodrama ever devised. It is a portrait of a man’s soul, done with marvellous dramatic power, and Kenneth Harlan turns it into a mighty achievement. From the thundering war scenes in France, the action moves into a small American town, and the warfare is then concentrated within the heart of the ex-soldier, who knows he is not a hero, in spite of his decorations. It is a story of his fight to win courage to fight others, as well as himself. The theme is tragically serious; the treatment is uniformly qwiek and light. There are as many gay wisecracks as in a Syd Chaplin comedy, but they all are lines that stay right in character.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 187, 28 October 1927, Page 15
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171BRITANNIA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 187, 28 October 1927, Page 15
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