FILMED IN COLOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 3 June 1938, Page 11

FILMED IN COLOUR

R. L. STEVENSON’S “ EBB TIDE ’ The first sea story to be filmed In technicolour will be shown at the Regent Theatre to-day in “Ebb Tide,” a Paramount picture. Taken from a story by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, ‘Ebb Tide” presents the famed European character actor, Oscar Homolka, in an American picture for the first time. Homolka lives up to expectations in his characterisation of Captain Thorbecke, a broken sea captain who has lost his ship and papers through drunkenness. He has the knack of making even the worthless Thorbecke a likeable character. His supporting cast includes Frances Farmer, Ray Milland Lloyd Nolan, and Barry Fitzgerald of the Abbey Players of Dublin. Milland and Miss Farmer supply the romantic interest of the tale. Their love story is a strange one, for Milland is a beachcomber friend of Homolka’s, while Miss Farmer is the orphaned daughter of a sea captain, who meets him while he and Homolka are planning to steal her ship. The antagonism of the two is slowly changed to a comradely feeling as they go through several harrowing experiences together. When they are at last released from the danger that threatens them they realise they are in love.