"LONELY ROAD."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 5

"LONELY ROAD."

St. James - Attraction,

Clive Brook's latest A.T.P. production, "Lonely Road," which will be the next big attraction at St. James's Theatre, presents this world-popular star as Hollywood never visioned him. For here,-at last, is the real Brook in the'"role he was born to play—an excommander of the British submarine service, working hand-in-glove with Scotland Yard to capture a daring gang.of gun-runners operating on the English coast. When the picture opens he is found,, a rejected suitor, drinking heavily to drown his sorrows at his town club, will} only a blood-red rose, a" last gift'from the girl he loves, as a companion. Later, still decidedly the worse1 for'liquor, - he climbs heavily into his car, which, with a deepthroated roar, speeds into the night— destination unknown! . After a hairraising drive, he accidentally stumbles upon- a gang landing contraband machine-guns labelled "carpet: sweepers,"" and here begins one of the; most exciting phases of this ' breath-taking drama, that will keep the ■ audience fthrilled until the final fade-out. Playing the role of a little dance-hall partner, Molly Gordon,, whose brother is unwittingly entangled ,: with the gunrunning ■ gang, Victoria Hopper gives one;of the'most pleasing; performances of her career, while another outstanding .piece of work is that of Frederick Peisley, as the brother, who is ultimately accfuitted through the efforts of Brook. All lovers of romance staged against a background of thrills and adventure should not miss "Lonely Road." Many of the scenes in "Lonely Road" were taken in the West of Eng-. land, and' it is here that Clive Brpok has his exciting experiences in a highnowered sports car. In the drive he has to crash the car on to the beach and overturn it. In the -cause cf realism, this, was actually done, and, fortunately, Clive Brook lives to tell the. tale.