"EBB TIDE"
"The most satisfying colour picture that has yet reached the screen." Those words, or others of the same meaning, may be gleaned from just about every overseas review of Paramount’s “Ebb Tide.” which the studio has adapted with marked success from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel of the same name. There it no setting which could be so perfectly adapted to technicolour photography, as the South Seas scene of “Ebb Tdie.” The varied tropical vegetation, the bright blue of Pacific skies, the water shades of the South Pacific, needed the assistance of colour if then beauty was to be transferred to the screen. Apart from its scenic loveliness. “Ebb Tide” is important in that it brings Oscar Homolka to Hollywood fa the first time Homolka has made two oi three pictures in England, but it was his role in “Rhodes of Africa.” coupled, of course, with his briliant career on the Viennese stage, that eiifonraged the offers of stardom f.um Pn amount in Hollywood.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 2 April 1938, Page 4
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165"EBB TIDE" Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 2 April 1938, Page 4
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