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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 568, 22 January 1929, Page 15

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‘FORGOTTEN FACES” Amazing contrast incorporated in a logical story that grips, with outstanding performances by a great aggregation of players, makes Paramount s ‘’Forgotten Faces,’* which is the chief attraction at the 'National Theatre this week, an exceptional motion picture. The production is billed as ari allstar special, and it is. Clive Brook. Mary Brian, Baclanova, "William Powell. Fred Kohler and Jack Luden head the imposing list oi talent in the cast. The st< ry interest, unusual sets, vivid contrasts and dramatic value of the production entitle it to the rating of a special in the most complimentary sense of that term. Imagine a picture that starts out with a night hold-up of a fashionable gambling house perpetrated by two crooks in evening clothes, carries on to the grim interior of a penitentiary, shows an attempted prison break, gives intimate glimpses of social lite in a home of wealth and culture, and then depicts the terrified reactions of * woman being slowly driven mad by fear. In order that all prison scenes of the picture might be absolutely authentic. Director Victor Schertzinger and Howard Esta.brook. writer of the screen Play, visited a State prison, and, through the courtesy of the warden, made an exhaustive study of conditions there. * _ The London “Daily Mail" said of Forgotten Faces’: “This picture has power, truth to life, vitality, pictorial crispness, and beauty." and this opinion has been echoed by the large crowds of Aucklanders who have already seen the picture. Added attractions on the programme ar( *: Paramount News, Krazy Kat • artoon. Christie comedy and music the augmented orchestra under Mr. r. Bartlett.