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“BENT FOR HEAVEN” “Bent for Heaven,” the J. Stuart Blackton production for Warner Bros., which opened yesterday at the Lyric
Theatre, is a film version of the famous Hatcher Hughes : play. It is stir- \ ring, sincere and dramatic in its story of life and love in the Carolina mountains, where a hired man who “gets religion” revives an old family feud in jealousy and mistaken notion that he is the instrument of the Lord.
The masterly direction of Commodore Blackton, the brilliant cast, and the forceful plot all combine in making this photoplay one of the outstanding successes of the film season. When the dam explodes and a raging flood threatens the lives of all, one is bound to sit breathless and fascinated by the terrifying reality of the scene. It is a perfect piece of direction and acting. Patsy Ruth Miller is superb as Jude, the little mountain girl, whom Sid, the hero (John Harron), and Rufe, the hired man (Gardner James), both love. Gayne Whitman, Evelyn Selbie, Wilfred North and James Marcus are in the cast.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 14
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179LYRIC Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 14
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