"ESCAPE TO GLORY"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 16

"ESCAPE TO GLORY"

CENTURY THEATRE TO-MORROW ! Powerful drama and swift action are to be found in "Escape to Glory," which is' coming to the Century Theatre to-morrow. | This Columbia film filled with action whicn | plays a vital part in the picture ivas I directed by John Brahm from a ecree:: j play by P. J. Wolfson. Romance, with the throb of an undying love, is the third ' essential of thi« unforgettable new film, which stars Pat O"Brien and Constauce } Bennett. The supporting east is headed by i -John Halliday. Melville Cooper and Alan I Baxter. [ '"Escape to Glory"' tells a stirring, thrillj ing story of meu and women facing I disaster and death, and behaving each according to hie nature. Their natures are different and eo is their behaviour. A soldier of fortune who had liitherto eold I hie courage for cash discovers that money j isn't everything; a girl who had hitherto ! eold her loyalty for minks and sables finds j that warmth can come from the heart: a ' gunman facing electrocution chooses the! manner of his death—to die obtaining his j revenge, but' to die in a blaze ot" ptWj . : Of such material has been compounded the thrilling story which ie "Escape to j Glory." of human beings confronted with I overwhelming odds, with tense eituatioins. ! nerve-racking in their own right. John Brahm'e masterful direction cum- ' j pounds the many -dramatic: elements of the ; j picture so that they emerge one unfor- { . gettable whole. Pat O'Brien as a soldier i of fortune is said to give a performance equal to the beet of hie fine career. As '■■ hie 'tantalising feminine counterpart. Mi.-.»' Bennett is equally good. Lesser playeis have been splendidly cast in keeping with the excellence of the entire production. ! John Halliday gives a. sound performance : as a "phoney" district attorney fleeing '. j gangland'e vengeance. Also noteworthy f I are Melville Cooper as a born coward I living a life of constant fear, and Alan I Baxter ae a cold-blooded gunman who gives his life that others may live. "Escape to Glory" ie eaid to be one of the finest action J dramas to come, from Bollywood for a long time. = t