BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 258, 21 January 1928, Page 14

BRITANNIA

“BENT FOR HEAVEN” “Bent for Heaven,” which is now at the Britannia Theatre, is one of the outstanding pictures of the yea.r. Patsy Ruth Miller, officially elevated to stardom, after being featured for two years, plays the role

I of Jud© Lowry, the : mountain girl who, £ while her sweet- | heart is away in | France, attending a | war, has fallen A under the spell of 1 a young camp | meeting convert. I The sweetheart, i John Herron, comes | back and finds the | backwoods relig--1 ionist a tough * competitor for the

John Harron girl’s affections. Young Rufe, Gardner James, is ‘‘hellbent fer heaven.” Anything he wants to do, he thinks Heaven has commanded him to do, and, under that obsession, he promotes a quarrel between the sweetheart, and Jude’s brother, that revives a 50-year-old feud. The climax of the picture, where Rufe explodes the dam and the flood breaks loose, was something that was left to the imagination in the play. In the picture it forms one of the great scenic climaxes of screen history. Victor McLaglen, noted Captain Flagg of “What Price Glory,” is about to contribute another of his inimitable characterisations to the screen. He will start work shortly in “Woman Wise.” June Collyer, Fox Films’ latest ‘‘discovery,” will have the leading feminine role. • * * An innocent shop girl in a store, that, unknown to her, is the secret clearing house of thieves—this is the role Marceline Lay, pretty MetroGold wyn-Mayer actress, will play in Lon Chaney’s next starring picture, "The Big City. It is a vivid story of city life, with Chaney as an underworld gang leader.