“Mortal Storm," Drama With European Setting
Amusements
stirring and dramatic, “The Mortal Storm,” a screen play adapted from the novel of Phyllis Bottome, telling the story of a family torn asunder by political forces, commenced its Whangarei seasdn at the Plaza Theatre on Saturday night. It is a frank, truthful presentation, completely free from exaggeration or any attempt at sensationalism. It is truth picturised, not fictionised. “The Mortal Storm” unfolds the timely and heart-stirring narrative of a family “somewhere in Europe,” happy, contented, tolerant, then suddenly awakened to find itself in the throes of a new order of things resulting from political oppression. The family divides against itself. The sons, become involved in the hatreds and passions of the political movement. The daughter breaks her engagement to the man who has loved her for years. The father is taken to-a concentration camp. The story rises to a powerful climax in the love of the daughter for a man of her own ideals, and their attempts to escape the prison walls of hatred and intolerance.
It is one of the most powerful indictments against dictatorship that has ever appeared as an entertainment film, \ ' . ’
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Northern Advocate, 13 January 1941, Page 2
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