“TEMPEST”
JOHN BARRYMORE PICTURE “Tempest,” the new John Barrymore picture which United Artists will release as one of Its biggest 1928 specials, represents the largest financial outlay, the longest production schedule, and the greatest striving for popular entertainment in the famous screen star’s career. “Tempest” incidentally answers the plea of thousands of Barrymore’s admirers for a picture in a modern setting. After a series of big costume pictures, in which he played romantic characters of hundreds of years ago, Barrymore and his United Artists associates have ' yielded to popular demand and filmed a modern story—a saga of twentieth century Russia. In "Tempest” the screen idol has the role of a subaltern whose affairs of the heart and sword lead him into some of the strangest adventures of the revolution which swent out Tsarism, made fugitives of grand dukes, and rulers out of peasants. The early part of “Tempest” depicts all the pomp and luxury of the empire. With the revolution comes the most gripping picturisation yet made of a national cacaclysm.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 16
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171“TEMPEST” Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 16
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