PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 147, 23 June 1937, Page 6

PLAZA THEATRE.

"Michael Strogoff."

Bringing to life on the screen the exciting- adventures and desperate struggles of Jules Verne's immortal hero, "Michael Strogoff," R.K.O. Radio has produced one of the most unusual films of modern times, with the newContinental sensation, Anton Walbrook, in the title role. The aim epens.at the Plaza Theatre on Friday. Dealing with the efforts of Strogoff, a courier of the Tsar, to reach a besieged Russian army at Irkutsk during a sudden rebellion of the Tartar hordes, the picture abounds in breath-taking occurrences. These include the shadowing of the courier by a woman spy; his rescue of the spy from the attack of an enraged bear; his meeting with the traitor commanding the Tartar rebels; his romance with the Russian girl who accompanies him on his perilous journey; his fight with Tartar pirates on a Siberian river; his caplure by a Tartar patrol, as he tries to reach, the Russian lines; the intensely dramatic moments when he is condemned to be blinded by haying a white-hot sword passed before hjs eyes; the death of the spy; and his triumphant revenge on the Tartar leader .in the palace at Irkutsfc. As a counterpoint of these gripping-scenes, "Michael Strogoff" shows what has been acclaimed as two of the greatest battle sequences ever recorded by the camera; namely, the defeat of a Russian army by two Tartar, cavalry regiments, and-the final annihilation of the rebels ;as the courier leads the Grand Duke's forces on them from Irkutsk in a surprise sortie. "Michael Strogoff'' marks Anton Walbrook's American debut. In the feminine leads are Elizabath Allan, and Margot Grahame. Akim Tamiroq, Fay Bainter, and Eric Blore are also cast. ■'.