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“THE FAR CALL”
Piracy, seal-hunting, the desolate Pribilof Islands in Behring Sea, plots and counter-plots, enough fighting to satisfy the most exacting spectator —these are some of the features of “The Far Call,” Allan Dwan’s salty drama for Fox Films, which opened last evening at the rand and Lyric Theatres. Based on Edison Marshall’s popular novel of the same name, the picture begins in Shanghai, continues on to the Pacific, and ends in Heaven —at
least, for the two principal characters, Charles Morton and Leila Hyams. With such excellent players as Ulrich Haupt and Charles Middleton in support, both Morton and the fair Miss Hyams give an unusually convincand splendid per~
formance. Dwan’s direction again proves that he is a master of the megaphone, and altogether “The Far Call” can be classed as both interesting and entertaining. At the Grand Theatre only, the second attraction is “The Third Eye,” an exciting detective story, in which television is used, starring Dorothy Seacombe. At the Lyric Theatre the second picture, entitled “Forbidden Fruit,” is an unusual romantic and dramatic story starring Georg© Alexandra.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 17
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184GRAND AND LYRIC Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 17
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