BRITISH PRODUCTIONS.
CHANGE IN DISTRIBUTION. A development of considerable importance to the British film industry in Australia and New Zealand, is the completion of in agreement under which British Dominions Films Limited, will handle an additional selection of the big feature productions of the Gainsborough -Gaunont Studios, England. This agreement has been arrived at after some weeks of negotiations between Mr. Ernest Turnbull, iranaging director of British Dominions Films Limited, and Mr. Allan
J. Williamson, special Australasian representative fo; - the Cainsborough-Gaumont Company. The feature films immediately affected by the new agreement include " Sunshine Susie " which has been widely acclaimed as " the film of the year " Tho Ghost Train " Michael and Mary " by A. A. Milne, " The Ringer " and " The Calendar," both ly Edgar Wallace; and "The Man They Couldn't Arrest." The first film to be released under the new agreement will be " Sunshine Susie " which will (ihortly be seen in Auckland. This is notable for the first appearance on the screen here of Jack Hulbert, the English character comedian. It also introduces Renate Muller, a. German musical comedy star, who has taken London literally by storm. Owen Nares, the well-known London leading man, and Morris Harvay, who also has a big London stage reputation, are in tho cast.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 10 (Supplement)
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