RIVER PLATE BATTLE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 8

RIVER PLATE BATTLE.

Striking New Film

When the war news is grim and the enemy gains a few points on the great world chequer board, we are inclined to forget the achievements of our own side. There is a film which opens at the Plaza Theatre tomorrow.which will, help "to > jolt us into a realisation that there are.two sides to Hitler's bid for world power. It is called "For Freedom," and it. stars the Battle of the River Plate, with New Zealanders participating, and the rescue by H.M.S. Cossack of the British prisoners on the German hell-ship Altmark. "For Freedom" is not a newsreel, nor a mere "March of Time" film. It surpasses even the best of these. It might be called a cavalcade of great world events—the events directly leading to the present war—told in a dramatic and intensely exciting manner. The passage of these events is narrated around the efforts of a newsreel producer to cover the world with his battery of-cameramen, and the passage of affairs, as centralised in his studio, tells the story of grim circumstance which led to the present .conflict. The high light is the Battle of the River Plate, followed by the capture of the Altmark and the release of the British prisoners. These, two incidents are most impressively told, and the comment by Vice-Admiral J. E. T. Harper, the New Zealander, with the actual men of the Exeter, Achilles, and Ajax participating, gives the film a special significance in this country. "For Freedom" came from: the Gains? borough studios in England less than three weeks ago, and has been flown to New Zealand for immediate screening.