BRENON BLAZES DARING TRAILS

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 20, 9 October 1930, Page 5

BRENON BLAZES DARING TRAILS

Wax Tilm Delves Deep into Human Heart. Herbert Brenon, daring adventurer of t&e films, lias tossed precedent to the ■windes again and delivered another dramatic <?xeaition to thrill and startle the worlds' playgoers. Brecon's new achievement is Radio Pictures' "Tho Case of Sergeant G-ris-eha,'' an almost literal translation inito film of Arnold Zweig's devastating navel of war. It will be presented for the first time here at the King George Theatre. With. Chester Morris in the title role, Brenon hkillils his drama around this ■centra! figure of a common man caught in the relentless machinery of war. It is a story which moves swiftly, brings down its points with terrific effect yet never loses the human qualities which must motivate all great drama.

Knitted closely into the story of Griseha \s clash with the war machine is Ms .romance with the girl outlaw leader, Babka, played by Betty Compson. Jean Hers-holt plays the radical officer, Posnanski; Alcc.B. Francis, the kindly general.. Yon. Lychow; Custav Yon Scyfi'ortitz, the iron-handed commandant of Eastern" forces, Schicffcnzahn.

Daring innovations in themo treatment aiLVI, mechanical, technique are intriduced by Brenon in the production, upsetting many' of the oldest and most •substantial prejudices of the screen. It is, viewed from., any angle, ad-rama without single precedent'