"THE FLYING DOCTOR."

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1936, Page 5

"THE FLYING DOCTOR."

Coming; to the Plaza.

Described as Australia's : supreme screen achievement, "The Flying Doctor" corses, to the. Plaza. Theatre-on Friday.' The story, has for. its theme two dramas. Sandy Nelson ■ (Charles Farrell) is a wanderer. Casual, tireless, incurably restless, ever on the look-out for wider horizons, he typifies the Australian adventurer, • and he is a man whom none could fail to like and trust. By chance he meets little Jenny Rutherford (Mary Maguire), and before his true spirit, ■ momentarily drugged by the sweet romance, can reawaken to assert itself,'he is married to her. But the eagle cannot, be pinnioned. He disappears, and after vicissitudes in Sydney, working' at casual jobs, and fighting for a crust in, the wrestling ring, he heads for out-back again. And this time he is lucky. He and his little pal, "Dodger" (Joe Valli), strike gold. The story of. Sandy's love is interwoven with the- drama of the Aerial Medical Service. The Flying Doctor (James Raglan),'who has Cloncurry as his base, is Sandy's friend, and their lives are inevitably linked by an intriguing twist of fate. How Sandy sustains a tragic loss, but becomes victorious even in defeat; how Dodger Green makes .a fortune; how Jenny Rutherford finds happiness at last; and how the Flying Doctor makes history build a story both human and noble. Adapted by J. O. C. Orton from Robert Waldron's novel of the same name, "The Flying Doctor" is the finest film medium Australia has yet handled.