STRONG DOCKSIDE DRAMA

Evening Star, Issue 21480, 3 August 1933, Page 6

STRONG DOCKSIDE DRAMA

OCTAGON'S FILM FOR TO-MORROW Interest, suitably varied, is awakened at the start m ‘ The World, the Flesh, and tho Devil,’ which will begin at the Octagon Theatre to-morrow; and the film never loses its grip until the thrilling and eminently satisfying climax is reached. ‘The World, the Flesh, and tho Devil ’ is a strong story, told with clear narrative skill, capably acted and realistically presented in unusual dockside settings, the film gaining its title from a Thames waterside “ pub,” known ns “ Tho World, the Flesh, and the Devil.” Nicholas Brophy,' a crooked lawyer, learns from his dying mother that he is the illegitimate son of Sir James Hall. He contrives to cheat the baronet's rightful heir, Robert, by faking evidence to prove that he and Robert were exchanged at birth. The only person who can disprove his claim is Airs Stanger. a typical dockland innkeeper. He effectively silences the old lady by strangling her, but Nemesis in the shape of the dead woman’s son tracks Brophy down, and eventually beards him in his late mother’s dockside “pub.” Here Nature takes a hand, for just as the son has obtained possession of tho letter which shall prove his claims of the rightful heir, an abnormal tide rises, on the Thames,and metes out to the villain his just deserts.

Harold Huth is exceedingly good as the unscrupulous Brophy, and makes tho most of his opportunities. S. Victor Stanley is amusing in the cockney role of young Stanger, and Isla Bevan makes an attractive heroine.' i