STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 209, 23 November 1927, Page 15

STRAND

“THE TE KOOTI TRAIL” Excellent entertainment is offered at the Strand Theatre, where Rudall Hayward’s epic of New Zealand history. "The Te Kooti Trail,” is being offered as the chief attraction on a notable programme. Based on fact, and filmed in the places where the history w*as made, “The Te Kooti Trail” is a picture which no New Zealander should miss seeing. It presents a phase 01 history never before pietorially touched upon. Of the photography too much cannot be'' said, for while there is nothing elaborate, everything is trm to life, and the Old Mill Farm in the picture has been made to look just as une would imagine it. This famous epi* does not lack exciting moments, anc | the heroic dash along the coast frorr ! Whakatane to Tauranga by Tanarahi I the attack of Te Kooti’s warriors on the Old Mill, where seven people wen fighting a losing fight, are particularly thrilling. The cast is composed of Tins . Hunt and Patiti Warbrick in the lead- ! ing roles, and the Rev. Jasper Calder j Billie Andreasson, Arthur Lord anc j Captain Redmond in supporting i Preceding the picture is an ap- ! propriate prologue by a special Maor troupe headed by Mr. A. Warbrick Eve Bentley’s Strand Symphony Or ehestra features popular Maori melodies.