FINE BRITISH FILM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20273, 6 April 1934, Page 3

FINE BRITISH FILM.

Midnight Club,” a fine British film, will conclude its season at the Gx'und Theatre to-night. • ** The Good Companions,” the great talking picture adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s best-seller of the same name, will begin a return season at the Grand Theatre to-morrow. Few famous novels have been transferred to the screen with such fidelity as “ The Good Companions”; it is even more convincing as a film play than as a novel. Priestley wrote a wonderful book when he gave the world the strange characters of that happily-named concert party, and Victor Saville, who directed the picture for GaumontBritish, has performed a marvellous feat in bringing them to life, showing with many brilliant touches their trials, tribulations and eventual achievements. The cast is particularly good, even the smallest parts being filled by noted players. Jessie Matthews is splendid as Susie Dean, but if any one character stands out f*-om the others it is that of Jess Oakroyd, played with great understanding oy Ff rnund Gwenn. Box plans at the D.I.C.