"LONELY ROAD."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 7

"LONELY ROAD."

Tomorrow at St. James.

A fascinating love story, dashing adventure, thrilling gun-running, music, song, and catchy humour, combined with clever acting, make "Lonely Road," which is to be* shown at St. James Theatre tomorrow, a picture at once exciting and highly entertaining. Co-starring Clive Brook and Victoria Hopper, the action of "Lonely Road" shifts from London to a Leeds Palais-de-Danse, Scotland Yard Headquarters, and sea coast locales, thus providing ample variety of settings. Clive Brook in the role of an ex-commander of a submarine, now turned secret service agent, is refreshingly different from his customary Hollywood characterisations. Opposite him, Victoria Hopper gives a delightful performance as Molly Gordon, the dance-hall partner, a role giving full play to her dramatic powers, which have never been seen to better advantage. Another outstanding piece of work is that of Frederick Peisley as Molly's brother, Bill, who unwittingly gets mixed up with the gun-runners, only to be ultimately acquitted through the efforts of Clive Brook. Eventually love receives its reward in the happy union of Molly and the commander, but not before a spate of thrilling melodrama runs its course, keeping the audience in exciting suspense, a terrific car crash, a thrilling chase down a cliff, and at the bottom—a fierce fight. All these combine to make "Lonely Road" one of the most action-packed offerings of the year. A strong supporting cast includes Nort Swinburne, at once attractive and charmingly clever; Malcolm Keen, as the half-wit professor; Laurence Hanway. Ethel Coleridge. Warburton Gamble, and Denis Wyndham.