'SORRELL AND SON’

Evening Star, Issue 19919, 16 July 1928, Page 5

'SORRELL AND SON ’

COMING TO THE STRAND Fathcr-and-sou love is the theme of ‘ Sorrell and Son,’ Herbert Brenon’s production of Warwick JDeeping’s novel, made into a United Artists’ picture, which will bo screened at the Strand Theatre on Friday. H. B. Warner appears as Stephen Sorrell, and Micky M'Ban and Nils Asthcr enact, respectively, the child Kit and tho matured Kit Sorrell. Tho cast includes Anna Q. Nilsson as Dora Sorrell, Carmel Myers as Florence Palfrey, _ Norman Trevor as Thomas Boland, Alice Joyce as Fanny Garland, and Louis Wolheim as Sergeant Buck. Most of the scenes of ‘ Sorrell and Son ’ wore filmed in England, and with the aid of tho author. Tho film is faithful to , tho spirit and letter of Warwick Decping’s book, and tho ending of the film is that of the hook. Herbert Brenon, who made ‘ Peter Pan ’ and ‘ Bean Geste,’ says that ‘Sorrell and Son’ is his best motion picture. A father himself, Mr Brenon believes the story of ‘ Sorrell and Son ’ is that of any father and any son, and that' the appeal of the film _as entertainment is (supplemented by its spiritual effect on men and women who view it. The story concerns a British war veteran whose wife deserts him and In's six-year-old son. Tho veteran, Cpatain Stephen Sorrell, M.C., thereafter struggles against ingratitude, poverty, vice, and physical exhaustion to rear and educate the boy, in whom he is ultimately well pleased. Interwoven with the story of father-and-son devotion are the. sub-plots of Stephen Sorrell's friendship with Fanny Garland; Kit Sorrell’s love for Molly Boland; Boland’s kindness to Stephen Sorrell; Sergeant Buck’s enmity for Sorrell; Florence Palfey’s_ scorn of her drunken husband and fierce passion for Captain Sorrell; and_ Dora Sorrell’s bitter struggle to win from her husband the love of their.son, Kit,