“CONDEMNED”
COMING TO THE REGENT Ronald Colman, star of “Condemned,” the new Samuel Goldwyn picture -which comes to the New Regent Theatre on Friday, is not ono of those screen heroes who believe that they must always appear in front of the camera in a spotless shirt and with every hair in place. On the contrary, he prefers roles in which he can vary the customary picture of a movie hero and rough it in old clothes. “Condemned,’ showing him as a debonair thief sentenced to a long term on Devil's Island, notorious French penal colony on the coast of South America, gives him ample opportunity to indulge this theory. Colman fans will remember that two of his other best-known pictures, “The Rescue” and “The Night of Love,” showing him as a freebooting South Seas trader and a gipsy chieftain, also proved that feminine admirers agree with Column's diagnosis of what appeals. In selecting “Condemned,” the Goldwyn staff must have had an eye on the possibilities of the medium of the talking screen. The story, with dialogue by Sidney Howard, the famous American dramatist, gives a profoundly moving picture of life among the convicts on Devil’s Island. Magnificently cast criminal types, hard, thrilling uialogue, stirring sound effects in the first storm at sea ever successfully attempted in sound Aims, gripping sequences of sudedn death and despeiate escapes, are all woven carefully about the central theme of the innocent love between a convict and the wife of the brutal warden. Great credit should go to the adapter, Wesley Ruggles, the director, and everyone else associated with this important example of the tremendous things the talking picture can do. To insure authenticity of settings and atmosphere for the prison scenes in “Shadow of tho Law, V* llliam Rowell’s newly completed talkie, an ex-convict was secured as technical advisor. Marion Shilling has the feminine lead, and Natalie Mooreliead, Res-is Toomey, .Paul Hurst, Richard Tupker and Frederic Burt are in the cast,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1023, 14 July 1930, Page 15
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