“HIGH TREASON” AT LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 17

“HIGH TREASON” AT LONDON

“High Treason,” a new English talking film, now in its second week at the London Theatre, has proved, at least as regards its general pictorial treatment and subject matter, to be one of the most arresting of film productions. It is set in the year 1940 and it assumes a rebuilt London, with towering buildings round and about a new Charing Cross bridge, from the flat roof-platforms of which runabout air machines take off, while passengers preferring train travel set out in the Channel Tunnel express. The story also deals with a threatened breach of the then agreed principal of world peace. There are scenes depicting the destruction of the Peace League’s vast building; the voting of the European Governments’ Supreme Council on the war or peace question, and the division of the sexes on the same problem, which reaches its climax when the military refuse to fire on the conscripted womenfolk who violently obstruct them. Details of the domestic, business and communal life of ten years hence are also shown and are all well contrived and convincingly presented. The photography and detail are excellent. Mr. Jameson Thomas makes an admirable hero, while in Miss Benita Hume, as heroine, a screen actress of the first category establishes herself.