The Last Sultan

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 256, 26 July 1935, Page 16

The Last Sultan

WHEN "Abdul the Damned,” British International Pictures’ spectacular production, is released in Wellington, picture-goers will see a film that has its entire action laid in Constantinople at the time when the young Turks were rising in revolt against the Id Turks, the supporters of Abdul Hamid 11, the last of the despotic Sultans. The settings throughout this remarkable film are as bizarre as they arc magnificent, .and the director has made full use of the most unusual camera shots. The story of the sultan whose life was haunted by the fear of assassination and who employed a double to represent him in public is tragic and gripping, and is told in excellent manner. There must be many who can remember vividly tlie abdication of the last of the sultans. Fritz Kortner gives an amazing performance as the sultan and also as his double. Nils Asther is. nt last, given an opportunity of displaying bis undoubted ability as an actor, and excellent work is done by Adrienne Aim's, Esme Percy and John Stuart. The picture, which is brilliantly directed and produced, bolds the interest from start to finish