GREAT SILENT FILM AS TALKIE

Evening Star, Issue 21098, 10 May 1932, Page 5

GREAT SILENT FILM AS TALKIE

NEW VERSION OF ' OVER THE HILL 1 Beginning on Friday at the St. James Theatre, motion picture audiences will be given the opportunity of seeing ‘ Over the Hill,’ a special production from tho studios of Fox. It is the famous poem by Will Carleton brought to life on the screen with all the sincerity, all the pathos, all the joys, and all the deep feeling that go to” make up the life of a real family. It is an intimate story of home and family life, with its small quarrels and its great loyalties; with its romances through the years ; with the growing of the individual lives of children, and the mother who cannot bear to part with them. It is the story of a strong mother who grows dependent, and then finds that she has no place in the lives of her children. They have their own battles to fight, and they look upon her as something of a burden. But there is one—one of them who is grateful, who can never forget what sho has given him. ‘ Over tho Hill ’ brings together again those two superb young stars who have been making motion picture history in the past two months—James Dunn and Sally Filers—for the most stirring performances of their young careers. Mae Marsh, whose dramatic powers have been absent from motion pictures for more than ten years, returns triumphantly to the screen as the mother in * Over the Hill.’ James Kirkwood, Edward Crandall, Claire Maynard, Oliu Howland, Joan Peers, William Pawley, and a nuinL-r of other favourites all have important roles in ‘ Over the Hill,’ which was directed by Henry King.