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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 25

in order of popularity was Murnau’s “Sunrise,” starring George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor. Margaret Mann’s “Pour Sons” was fifth and "Street Angel,” also with Janet Gaynor, sixth. The three were Fox productions.

With the exception of “Street Angel,” which is coming shortly as a sound film, all in the first six have been seen and acclaimed in Auckland. The Sun named “Sunrise” as the best film of the year to the time of its showing. The four remaining pictures honoured by inclusion among the Big Ten were Charlie Chaplin’s “The Circus,” King Vidor’s “The Crowd,” recently in Auckland, Cecil B. de Mille’s “King of Kings,” and Gloria Swanson in "Sadie Thompson.” In the next ten were Colleen Moore in “Lilac Time,” Douglas Fairbanks in “The Gaucho,” Dolores Del Bio in “Ramona,” Lon Chaney in “Laugh, Clown, Laugh!” Conrad Veidt in “The Man Who Laughs,” George Bancroft in “The Docks of New York,” Thomas Meighan in “The Racket,” “White Shadows in the South Seas,” "Our Dancing Daughters,” and “Old Ironsides.”

"Film Daily” calls attention to the fact that £400,000,000 is invested in the production of motion pictures, and that the annual salary list in Hollywood is more than £10,000,000. The larger companies are to make fewer pictures during 1929, and make them better.