Plaza Theatre.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 434, 15 May 1937, Page 3

Plaza Theatre.

‘’Under Two Flags.” One of a long succession of desert romances which have been produced in fiction and on the screen with the sam e outstanding success, the celebrated story of Ouinda r “Under Two Flags,” makes even greater history as one of the most notable pictures to come in recent ye’ars from the 20th Century Fox studios. It will show at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford, tonight. Finely acted and produced with telling realism, the tale makes. 1 excellent entertainment. It is one of those few films which anyone with a love, of action, true dramatic 'art and excitement appreciates from beginning to end. Directed by Frank Lloyd, the magnitude of the whole production and the infinite pains obviously taken to secure the correct atmosphere are most impressive. It is an epic picture. The simple tale of love and jealousy in an exotic desert setting still weaves its spell. Many stories have geen woven around the Foreign Legion since Guinda first captured th e imagination nf an olde? generation, but the sad tale of Cigarette and her grelat love for years to come. Irt spite of a charming performance from Claudette Colbert and a shorter, but equally accomplished, interpretation from Rosalind Russell, Ronald Colman dominates the story. As a sergeant in the Foreign Legion, whos e past is mysterious but entirely honourable, he has a part to which he is admirably suited). His cultured but slightly melancholy air gives just the right touch to the character and tme lives with him in his tritumphs and hardships with on e of the greatest fighting forces the world has ever known. As major of the battalion, a blustering, forceful fellow, but a fine soldier, Victor McLaglen, also has a part which allows him full scope. His affection for Cigarette and his jealousy for the regard, and later the love, she shows for Colman, is the driving theme. The scenes of the fighting in the desert are without precedent. The photography rates with the best yet seen on the talking screen.