“ATLANTIC” AT TWO THEATRES
The widely-discussed film, ‘Atlantic” is now at the West End, Ponsonby Road, and the De Luxe Theatre, Mount Albert. The play is based on the sinking of the Titanic, and the entire action takes place on board the ill-starred vessel. The story is told with all Ernest Raymond’s complete understanding of human nature, and he sketches, with unfailing skill, the different types, their little personal stories, the petty romances and tragedies that are staged during the voyage, and then their reactions to the awful fate that is so soon to encompass them. E. A. Dupont directed “Atlantic,” and that same sense of impending disaster. that unmistakable feeling that something is hovering like a dark Nemesis over the stage, is present in “Atlantic.” The climax, when the great ship plunges into the icy ocean, with the band playing “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and the frightened women and the pale-faced men being thrown like puppets into their watery grave, is one of the most moving climaxes the screen has effected.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 993, 9 June 1930, Page 15
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