"THE LION HAS WINGS."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 8

"THE LION HAS WINGS."

Transferred to Tudor.

Alexander Korda^flatestprc4uc^^^|;^ | "The Lion Has Wings,^ sptmfx^Ar^fM; the' British Government^ .and" a.,:^g^i^ riificently moving film, has ■beeit.trini^/1| ferred to the Tudor Theatre. ;"!t \ dramatises with a stirring personal : story the great organisation. and ' achievements of the RoyaJ. Air Forced and how Great Britain, gradually awoke, , to* the menace of Hitlerisih" and "'th«^' * threat to the life and-liberties^ of-j' Europe, which the German war macS- ';f ' me prpclaimed. It is particularly-in-'= spiring in its thrilling panoramaa of. British flyers and planes ? engaged xin':/ defence and attack. ■'. After ■putting th« .war guilt -on Hitler's shoulders,:wher*' it rightly belongs, the film'shows England's vast preparation tb";Jflght, hot "'■ because she wants J6, but? because j*e must repel Nazi rbombe^s 'ffi<&^jgive.' th« Nazis a taste of raeir'bwn; One of the most: interestihgxetii^wief of the film shbws' a ■recbnstrUciibttp^ the daring raidioir the ;Kiel GaJi*feStfeo^ by step the flight "is Ic^ow^dyfrpW^i^; first:/instructi<>n:^JC,::tiie3^y.er^tc^^ take-off, the; conyersatibn^ 'during^^MftS, 'flight,:: the;>bpmlii-Ib'ein#v--retea;^;-^^tew'-\ explosions on;Gennw^^rshipsr jj^«| -i final shots^ shbwicthe return^^ftigbt ofil v^ the air ; squadron;;jaridvthe rxaext.■£. »ii*i 'actually carried vput; the;:xaid;':-^aWpl«i'|--f Oberohv ; Ralph/ ■ Richardspi^ Duprez; nent; roles in this most impressiye•■fi|ijK^*rA':. weird,'-;.'fasctoating^^'Starumtf^.drS^pK^i- * that N fjutty:.hristtes\>^ v te^^ curdling story :pf ?i wh^teJiKfiisi"1: to conquer xleath; Cplwbia^feMw^ They Could NbtHarig" is^e^as^SftMfe^ ;atteaction. Boris;KarlofE^tftrpUi^J^S performancein^ispic^ei^oves^ifi^ clusiyely that^his title pf ?'Kih#';]Mp Horror"; is :npt; a nusriopaer;^ zz.r??s;*o:;

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