REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1050, 14 August 1930, Page 15

REGENT

“JOURNEY’S END” “The film of Mr. R. C. Sherriff’s war play, ‘Journey’s End,’ is the most moving thing I have seen or read or heard in months,” writes a London reviewer. ‘‘There are moments in it which would be unbearable were it not for the tenderness with which they are treated—moments in which friends, dead now for nearly 15 years, become again incarnate in those shadows of tortured officers you see on the screen. Its tender reality is its salvation. Mr. Sherriff told me at the end of the film that the picture had added to the play’s beauty and expression. “I thought that the film’s power would consist in its vistas of the struggles of armies. I was wrong. Its intensity and its drama are in the heart of one man alone. Stanhope, bearing that mark of suffering which came to be the sign of company commanders in France. Stanhope is the personification of a thousand company commanders who, suffering all the torments of tortured nerves, still had the job of leading four platoons, and did that job. ‘‘ln ‘Journey’s End’ there is an eternal monument to those men with the semblance of physical fitness, but with spirits worn incredibly near to breaking point, who still summoned to themselves the power of leading others. ‘Journey’s End’ as a film is a brave conception, and a magnificent accomplishment. Mr. Colin Clive plays Stanhope worthily. I can think of no greater praise.” This film is daily attracting record houses to the Regent Theatre.