AUSTRALIAN FILMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 11 (Supplement)

AUSTRALIAN FILMS

" THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE " DOMINION SCREENING SHORTLY Australia has successfully entered into the field of talking picture production, and a complete unit programme of sound films made at the Efftee Studio in Melbourne will be screened shortly. The feature attraction will be the talkie version of C. J. Dennis well-known story in verse, " The Sentimental Bloke, already seen in New Zealand on the stage and the silent screen. In its talkie form all the simple charm, of the story has been retained, and leading critics in the Commonwealth have hailed the film -as a decided achievement, both technically and artistically. The standard of the film is demonstrated by the fact that .on its first release it packed the great Hoyt s Do Luxe Theatre in Melbourne for eight weeks, and has since been screened with equal success throughout the Commonwealth. Leading roles are played by Ray Fisher as Doreen Cecil Scott as the Bloke, Tal Ordetl

ils (linger Mick, Dora Mostyn as Mar, Keith Desmond as uncle ami Atliol lici as Artie. All these players are well known on the Australian stage, and many have been seen in J. C. Williamson productions in the Dominion. ' " The Sentimental Bloke will be presented as the featured attraction of a full unit programme of Australian sound funis, including a varied and fascinating series of short films, notably the remarkable micro-cinema series of Ocean Oddities, photographed on the Great Barrier Reef, bv the New Zealand micro-cinema expert, Mr. Noel Monkman, who with his wife, spent six months on the reef.