“SORRELL AND SON”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 14

“SORRELL AND SON”

AT STRAND ON FRIDAY Many picturesque places in England were used by Herbert Brenon and his company as backgrounds for scenes in “Sorrell and Son,” which film comes to the Strand Theatre on Friday. After working for months in Hollywood, making interiors, the Brenon unit of the Joseph M. Schenck organisation went abroad for the exterior “shots.” At historic old Marlow several scenes were made from the ancient Paper Mill Bridge, with Marlow Church and bridge in the distance, showing “ Molly Roland” (Mary Nolan) and “Kit Sorrell” (Nils Asther) in punting and romantic episodes. Crowds thronged the bridges and the river bank to watch the American motion picture company work. Especial interest by the English was evinced in the scenes along the tow-path, in which “Stephen Sorrell” (H. B. Warner), “Thomas Roland” (Norman Trevor) and “Kit Sorrell” as a boy (Mickey Mcßan) took part. ■Warner and Trevor, Britons, renewed acquaintance with the spot where they had lived in riverside bungalows years before. Director Brenon chose* “The Cornpleat Angler” for his headquarters, where the news of the presence of the noted producer, who was born in Ireland and lived in England as a young man, as well as British members of his cast, quickly spread among the visitors and developed into an informal reception amongst old admirers of the players in their London days.