LAUGHTER AND THRILLS

NZ Truth, Issue 1062, 1 April 1926, Page 2

LAUGHTER AND THRILLS

Film Triumph of "The Lagle"

There's romance m the very word Cossack, and it should require no stretch of imagination to picture the fascinating and popular Rudolph Valintino 's interpretation of the part.

HANS KRALX, m celluloiding— -to c coin a term — the story of Alexander Pushkin, has not stressed the s gloomy side of Russia. 1 Far from it, "The Eagle" provides humor m plenty and Rudolph is just the man to handle humor arid drama simultaneously without spoiling the effect of either. No doubt he has more feminine fans than any other film hero, yet none but the very thinnest-blooded of men can watch him pass on his way across the silver sheet without some little, but well -suppressed, regret that the days of true romance were dead and gone. In this his latest triumph he loves as a fighter should love, he fights as a lover should fight, rides like the devil, and the spice of the devil is m his wit. Could a man be otherwise than inspired when playing opposite such a wondrous creature as Vilma Banky? Samuel Goldwyn was the lucky discoverer of this latest film beauty. He found her little over a year ago m that '

Jity of wondrous women — Budapest. Louise Dresser, the well-known stag© and variety star does credit to the role of the Czarina.

"The Eagle" is a noteworthy film and has just been released m New Zealand.