NEW THEATRE PICTURES.

Opunake Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 3177, 31 August 1928, Page 2

NEW THEATRE PICTURES.

MONDAY AND TUESDAY. -;r > _ m “LES MISBHABLES.” . , ... So big as to beggar description, so, deocate in its artful shadings of pathos and humour, and set so over* powering m dramatic power aflrf" sweep that tlie auuicuce is aud cou- i-g stautly in the g.ip or tense i.Ac.uSi, admiration and sympathy, "nes Miserauies,” the Umve.sai-x- mu de a ranee’ production to lie shown at upunaxe on y Aionday and luesuay next snou.a not ■ missed. One cannot see this gripping, soul-. movie masterpiece without realizing that inhiiiite pai.itt.ct, uinim-i' ited money and inspired endeavour were lavished upon tnc io. no item in the t.emeudous.y big tableau StemS tO Have Uau cou Sm-u. to

tie wo. tuy ot tue utmost care in itproducing, when actual antiques couid _ol w uuutilitU. Tt is said that most of the scents* excepting those representing Baris, were taicen on the actual mcat.ons of the book. These Parisian sets were built with such astonishing fidelity that they convey the illusion of age t and reausiii, anu to such a’u mat it is Uimcu.t to beaeve that tfi v.ere not photographed a hundred yeu.s ago. dean vaijcan, rtga.dcu by many as the mo«t hf.o.'U cim.-.-t i u 1 uu, is played by Gabriel Gabrio with a depth or unaerstauuiug that maitcs me man of burdens live and Dreatne. 'The lovely (.osette, the ternb.e Jarert, the e.aity Themardier and Father Myriel, tiio saint.y —ail these are brought to being on the screen with the force of truth. The film was originally produced in such great length that it had to ba exhibited in Trance in a sa.us of sis showings. r J ho American Jist.ibutors

have reduced it to feature length, retaining the tssentia.s of the g.pat story in big, gripping scenes. The scene in the court .oom, where Yaljeon gives himself up to the law, would wring tears from the heart of a stone if a stone had a lieai t. The scene of the historic barricades is a big and exciting drama within a . drama. The prison at Toulon, the Paris sewers, Yaljean’s escape from jail, the love of Cosette and her poet revolutionist —these will linger long in the memory of everyone who sees “Les Miserables.”