Foresters’ Hall Pictures

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 280, 27 November 1939, Page 2

Foresters’ Hall Pictures

‘ SUEZ” TO-DAY Produced with the magnitude possible only on the sc reel], one of the most memorable pictures ever to come out of Hollywood, “Suez” screens flnnUy at 8 p.m. to-night. “Suez” is truly a great picture. In spectacle, emotional experience and sheer entertainment it is unsurpassed. It is said that into its production Darryl F. Zanuck has poured all his skill and 20th Century Fox’s resources —and “Suez” looks it. The story is of heroic proportions. It tells of the amazing Ferdinand de Lcsscps, who dreamed of creating the short route to the East, sought vainly by Columbus and Magellan, by tearing continents apart and joining the Mditerranean with the Bed Sea. The great canal he built has become the jugular vein of the world. Out of choking sand, froni the clutch of the raiding Bedouin, in the face of the terrifying Sahara simoon—with blood, tears and passion —de Lesseps built his canal, driven by the love of two women to realise the dream men scoffed at. Tyrone Pow-er gives thrilling realism to the central character, with Loretta Young and Annabella stirringly appealing in the feminine leads. J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Sidney Blackmer and a host of others are included in the stellar cast.