Screen Splendour

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 502, 3 November 1928, Page 27

Screen Splendour

“PRINCE OF ADVENTURERS’’

European Masterpiece for Strand A TREAT is in store for Auckland film lovers. “Prince of Adventurers,” a magnificent Universal Film De France production, is to be screened at the Strand following “ The Student Prince.” This romantic extravaganza represents the highest achievement of European motion picture art. Its spectacular sequences create a new standard, and its cast includes France’s most able artists.

With the assistance -of the Italian Government and the local authorities, many of the sequences were produced in Venice, where thousands of Venetians took part

English writer after a preview. ‘‘l would vote this the finest film I have ever seen. It will linger in my memory a long time.” The casting is one of the most interesting features of “Prince of Adventurers.” Twenty-six principals are included, and many of the names will be entirely new to picture-goers. At the top of the list, however, is Ivan Mosjoukine, Europe’s great rival of Emil Jannings, who plays the greatest role of his career In the name part.

la the mob scenes. Snow pictures .were secured in Alsace, and in every instance the extras were people of the nation represented. The romantic, s o p h is t ic ated story on which

Mosjoukine the film has been based gives every possible opportunity for lavish Interior and outdoor display, and 50,000 ft of magnificent screen material was taken and compressed into : 10,000 ft. “Until I saw it I had no idea that even the screen could present such lavishness, such colour, and such a variety of entertaining fare,” said an

Other outstanding players are Suzanne Biauchetti, Rina de Liguroro, Diana Karenne, Paul Guide, Jenny Jugo and Klein Rogge. Their names are worth remembering, for they- are among Europe’s great film stars. The story of the production is the story of a gay philanderer who flits from Venice to France, France to Germany, and Germany to Russia in pursuit of the lovely ladies belonging to other men. He is a gallant lover at worst and the sympathies of the audience will be with him on every occasion.