WONDERFUL FILM AT GRAND THEATRE.
" Metropolis,” the film now showing at the Grand Theatre, is a wonderful film. Conception and production are carried out on a colossal scale. Nothing like it has ever been attempted before. Everywhere it has been shown “Metropolis” has had a great reception and its almost overpowering appeal well warrants the lavish praise critics have given it. The story is very simple, but is acted with such gripping earnestness that a highly fantastic setting serves as a background to bring out with tremendous power the meaning of the film. Scene after scene leaves the beholder gasping at the sheer greatness of the conception, but never is reality lost, never does the mind, wrapped up in the power of the production, lose touch with the simple story underlying it. A special musical programme is contributed by the Grand Quality Orchestra.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18547, 22 August 1928, Page 7
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143WONDERFUL FILM AT GRAND THEATRE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18547, 22 August 1928, Page 7
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