GRIPPING DRAMA.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20260, 21 March 1934, Page 3

GRIPPING DRAMA.

Tense Situations in “ I Was

a Spy.”

There is sufficient excitement and gripping realism to entertain the most sophisticated in “ I Was a Spy,” the featured film at the Regent Theatre this week. Reviewing this splendid dramatic offering, a northern critic says: “ The acting carries one away from the first moments of the play, and the principals—Madeleine Carroll, Conrad Veidt and Herbert Marshall—create a lasting impression of excellence in the minds of the audience. Madeleine Carroll is the central figure in the story, playing the part of Marthe Cnockaert, a young woman of Roulers, a town in Belgium which is occupied by the Germans during the war. Herbert Marshall plays a no less important part as the German orderly attached to the same hospital in which Marthe serves. Others who enhance the vivid interpretation of this drama are Sir Gerald du Maurier, Edmund Gwenn and Nigel Bruce. The producer, Victor Saville, has considered the dramatic force of the realistic incidents with great insight, as only those can realise who have actually seen the film and been moved by its intensity.” Good supporting items complete this worthwhile entertainment.