“THE PATRIOT”
AT NATIONAL ON FRIDAY Starting from her lover’s arms as in terror—she hears a knock thundering on the door —her husband’s voice in the outer room! This is only one of the many thrilling situations which crowd upon Florence Vidor as she plays the featured role of the Countess Ostermann in Emil Jannings’s latest starring picture, “The Patriot,” which Ernst Lubitseh directed for Paramount, and which will be shown at the National Theatre on Friday. One thing after another crowds in-
to the life of this beautiful player as she brings back to life again the character of one of the most colourful courtesans of Russia. Succeeding in allaying her husband’s suspicions by ready wit, she is again upon the verge of detection when the husband meets death at an open window, shot by a galloping Cos-
. ~ sack, who is clearing the street of all peering eyes for the passage of the Tsar. Ihe Patriot” brings to the screen an amazing cast of players. Florenco Vidor, Lewis Stone, Tullio Carminati, Vera Voronina. Harry Cording 7 these are only a few of the prominent players who appear under the direction of Ernst Lubitsch for this powerful drama of Russia at the dawn of the nineteenth century.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 600, 28 February 1929, Page 15
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