“IN OLD CHICAGO”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 5

“IN OLD CHICAGO”

A SPECTACULAR FILM “ The public forgets 95 per cent, of the movies it has' seen because most of them are too narrow in their scope.” This, Henry King, who directed the spectacular Twentieth Century-Fox picture, “In Old Chicago,” commencing to-morrow at the Octagon Theatre, insists is due to an over emphasis on camera intimacy. “ What the public never forgets is a production which carries with it the broad sweep of large scenes, the scenes which used to be called colossal and stupendous,” says King. “ Every discussion of motion picture history brings up ‘ The Birth of a Nation,’ * Ben Hur,’ ‘The Covered y Wagon’- and films which set milestones in the kinema because of their magnitude. I think the public response to 4 In Old Chicago ’ proves that we are in for a returA to the bigger, and consequently better pictures.” “In Old Chicago ” features Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, and Andy Devine in a story of the rise and fall of the mid-West metropolis of the 1870’s. The climax is reached in the destruction of the city by the historic fire.