“HELL HARBOR”
COMING TO THE NATIONAL One of the first all-talking productions to be filmed on location entirely out of doors is “Hell Harbor,” the romantic drama starring Lupe Velez, which comes to the National Theatre on Saturday.
Tho picture was suggested by Rita Johnson Young’s novel, “Out of the Night,” and is the work of Henry King, director of “The White Sister” and “Stella Dallas.”
“Hell Harbor” is said to offer Lupe Velez the greatest opportunity of her screen career, presenting her in the part of a high-spirited young modern, a descendant of the great pirate chief, Sir Henry Morgan.
Around this theme is developed a story rich in incident, local colour and tense drama. Thero are the thrilling fight in the honky-tonk between Morgan and Wade, the death battle between Morgan and Ilorngold and the strange life that is to be found under the Caribbean moon. Filmed in Tampa, Florida, amid natural tropical settings, “Hell Harbor” is said to have one of the most beautiful backgrounds used for a picture. The entire production was filmed in this locale; there is not a studio shot in tho picture. The cast of “Hell Harbor” includes beside Lupe Velez and Jean Hersholt, John Holland, Gibson Gowland, Al. St. John, Henry Allen, Paul E. Burns and George Book-Asta.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1062, 28 August 1930, Page 17
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