“Noah’s Ark” Provides Great Film Spectacle
PROLOGUE—THE FLOOD ‘‘Noah's Ark,” a new film spectacle, said to rival “The Ten Commandments,” enj'oyed a highly successful premiere in Hollywood recently. It is a story with ancient and modern sequences, the incidents of the ark and the flood being depicted in a long prologue. The picture’s Biblical sequence, its scenes of Chaldean revelry within the King’s court, its religious procession of thousands of idol worshippers within the walled city, and its remarkable ascent of the animals in pairs—an amazing number of them and many unfamiliar ones—climbing before the lashing waves of the ascending flood, to the door of the ark, are scenes that probably will linger in many a film fan’s memory. The flood itself, when it deluges the city and destroys the wicked people in their sins, is a tremendously awe-in-spiring sight. George O’Brien and Dolores Costello sire the leading characters in the modern and ancient sequences. Dolores’s deep vitaphone voice is totally unrelated to her personality on the silent screen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 23
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