ENGLISH FILMS IN U.S.A.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 750, 24 August 1929, Page 18

ENGLISH FILMS IN U.S.A.

AMERICANS TO SEE EUROPE’S BEST This month and next will see the release in America of nine foreign--nade photo-plays, the work of German. French, and English directors, authors, and actors. For the first time in many years, trade conditions appear to permit an unrestricted exchange of films between America and Europe. The Hollywood product has long been the mainstay of English and Continental exhibitors, both In exchange for thousands of photo-plays sent annually to every quarter of the globe by America, a very few of the foreign product have found their way into the States. In that small group, nevertheless. Americans discovered “Variety,” “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligara*’ “Passion.” “Deception,” “All For Love,” and others that created a vast amount of discussion, and brought innovations into Hollywood metlir » of picturemaking. They also brought Emil Jannings, Pola Negri, Ernest Lubitsch, and a score of other artists. The latest crop of foreign-made films to be released in America by Worldwide pictures includes: “Piccadilly,” an original screen story by Arnold Bennett, directed in London by E. A. Dupont, starring Gilda Gray with Anna May Wong and Jameson Thomas. This has a synchronised score, songs, dances, and sound effects. Gilda cheated a new dance, the “Piccadilly Crawl,” for this English movie. “Kitty,” adapted from the novel by Warwick Deeping, author of “Sorrell and Son,” directed by Victor Saville at Henley-on-Thames, England’s fashionable boating centre, with Estelle Brody and John Stuart featured. “Week-end Wives,” comedy made in Paris and Deauville, featuring elaborate fashion reviews. “The Prince and the Dancer,” a story of Vienna, laid in that city, and telling a back-stage story of the opera, its royal patrons, and a little dancer. Dina Gralle is a new Continental celebrity introduced to America in this picture. There are also three TJ.F.A. productions, “The Doctor’s Women.” made in Paris, and featuring Miles Mander; “Berlin After Dark,” laid in the Elysium, the Coney Island of Berlin; and “Apaches of Paris,” a story of the Paris underworld.