ALL THE LAUGHS IN "WHAT PRICE GLORY"

NZ Truth, Issue 1126, 30 June 1927, Page 2

ALL THE LAUGHS IN "WHAT PRICE GLORY"

THE Jong-awaited film version of "What Price Glory?" can be record--1 ed as Fox's greatest triumph — and one of the pictures of the year. With the limitations of the' stage swept aside— with Raoul Walsh setting his camera to record the hates, passions, laughs of war, it surely and easily takes on\such broad dimensions as to place it among the elect. , "•'.'■ The film adheresto the original play m all its essential details—and improves upon it in 'the. scope of its war scenes — and the flavor of its atmosphere. . • , i ' It's a fine treatment. The story builds with ever-increasing interest, furnishing excitement, thrills and laughter on the way. ' It's a big picture^-a full-grown, robust picture, one that's a delight to the eye, and thrills the heart and the pulse. But "What Price Glory?" really scintillates m laughs.