TALKIE TOPICS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 51, 18 August 1939, Page 5

TALKIE TOPICS

''SUEZ" OFFERS FILM MIRACLE When the savage black simoon roars in from the Sahara to provide a climax of terrifying . power for "Suez,'' audiences will witness a spectacle and experience an emotion the screen has never been able to capture before. < Twisting, destroying —• the devil-wind of the desert is one of the production miracles of the spectacular story of Ferdinand de Les. seps and the building of the great canal that has become the jugular vein of the world. Darryl <F. producer of many of the screen's most memorable pictures, has re-created on the screen the stupendous effort of de Lesseps to tear two continents apart and join the Mediterranean with rue Red Sea that ships might soil the desert. A canal half a mile long, 100 feet deep and 150 feet across was dug bv movie crews in tire American desert near Yuma, Arizona, for scenes in the film. Other dramatic sequences were filmed on a 20' acre desert ccinstructed on an abandoned golf course f>n the 20th Century_Fox lot. Royal courts of Europe and Egypt were built for the film ) which is highlighted by tjie romantic story of the loves that drove de Lesseps to the realisation of his dream. Tyrone Power interprets the flaming heroic role of the canal-builder, sharing stellar honours with Loretl.i ; Young and Annabella.