“ATLANTIC”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 11

“ATLANTIC”

NEW BRITISH FILM

CHALLENGE TO HOLLYWOOD LONDON, Nov. 16. Tho British film industry has achieved a triumph with its latest talkie, “Atlantic,” which was shown to a private midnight audience. It is conceded to be the best film made in Britain. No talkie yet exhibited here has excelled it. Produced by the British International Studio, “Atlantic” is founded on Ernest Raymond’s play “The Berg,” and portrays dramatically the events of a huge transAtlantic liner immediately before she strikes an iceberg and until she sinks. Tho story obviously relates to the sinking of the Titanic. Tho producer, a German, Mr, E. A. Dupont, made the striking scenes, and there is splendid acting by a long cast, including the stage favorites Ellaino Terriss, Franklyn Dyall, and the screen stars John Longden, Monty Banks, Donald Calthrop, John Stuart and Mareleino Carroll, all of whom have appeared as stars. Speech is perfectly reproduced and confidence is felt that New Zealanders will find “Atlantic” a high-class entertainment as well as a long-waited proof of the ability of the British film industry to outdo Hollywood.