ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1922, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. PRISCILLA DEAN IN “CONFLICT.” One of the most thrilling pictures ever made for the screen was shown last night at Everybody’s when “Conflict, ” Priscilla Dean’s latest UniversalJewel production, had its premier New Plymouth. The picture is the last word in screen melodrama, and it grips one with its suspense almost from the first flash. Its climax is built around ’the dynamiting of a big log-jam in the swollen waters of the great north woods, and the succeeding flood of logs and water down the valley, sweeping everything in its path. The big punch comes when the heroine, played by Miss Dean, rides madly down the bank abreast of the flood, leaps perilously from log to log through the flow, and rescues her unconscious sweetheart, glayed by Herbert Rawlinson, just as e is about to be swept over a cataract. The suspense is real, the thrill is actual, and Miss Dean deserves credit for one of the most fearless ■stunts ever performed for the screen. The rescue scene has been favorably compared to the rescue scene in "Way Down East.” The logging camp scenes of “Conflict” are a revelation in screen veri-similitude. Miss Dean and her company passed several weeks in the timber country of British Columbia filming the story in its proper settings. The final screening of “Conflict” takes place to-night.