"SORRELL AND SON."

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19251, 5 March 1928, Page 6

"SORRELL AND SON."

TO RUN A SECOND WEEK. GRAND THEATRE, TO-DAY. "Sorrell and Son," Herbert Brenon's matchless production of Warwick Deeping's famous novel, will continue a second week at the Grand Theatre. This picture is certainly one of the few genuinely great films to be released in New Zealand, and it will long • be remembered as more a standard than an achievement, a standard from which many other films will be judged. This fine. !and uplifting story of Stephen Sorrell, oxofficer and gentleman, and his Bon Christopher, is more entrancing than the world's most idyllic love stories; more heroic than old unhappy, far-off things, and battles long ago; Deeping's sense of tho dramatic and ■the romance, beautiful, but still essentially English, have been subtly improved upon under Brenon's Irish hand, and the result, in the film "Sorrell and Son," is screen entertainment of. tjie highest and most enduring order. These excellent tales of the love of father and son seem to ring most true. Ex-Captain Sorrell may die, and dying, leave th» world a little poorer than it was, but there is that element of greatness m the still-remaining son that forbids the reader to mourn; the book is never depressing, is not tragic; it would be pleasant to meet Doctor Sorrell in another story. _ The author has already given such a hint in his latest novel, "Old' Pybus." As for the acting of the players in "Sorrell and Son, it is always'■ serious. H. B. Warner, as Captain Sorrell, is excellent, and Norman Trevor, whom one i's'-" justified in considering one of the half-dozen or so real actors on the screen to-day, is equally impressive as Thomas Roland. Alice Joyce, Anna Q. Nilsson, Carmel Myers, and Nils Aster complete the major roles. The Grand Orchestra plays special incidental music,, and the box plans are now open at The Bristol Piano Company. This week the Grand Theatre will recommence opening at 6.30, the programmes to start at 7.30.