“ORIENT EXPRESS."

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 3

“ORIENT EXPRESS."

Graham Greene’s Best-seller Brought to Screen. “ Britannia of Billingsgate,” a Brit--1 ish comedy, starring Gordon Marker and Violet Loraine, heads the current ! programme at the Majestic Theatre 1 billed with tense drama and vivid I romance, and filmed against a rich l background, " Orient Express,” based 1 upon Graham Greene’s best-selling I novel, will open at the Majestic Theatre on Monday. The splendid characterisations of the principals, together with the swiftly-mounting suspense, romance and intrigue, which bring the picture to an exciting climax, should hold the audience from beginning to end. “ Orient Express ” is a story of seven people who meet on board a train from Ostend to ConstaWinvple. Each one has his own ambition and goal in life, but at the end of their journey they find their lives completely changed. A wealthy young merchant falls in love with a dancer; a woman reporter gets her “ big story ’* from a Communist leader; a thief, fleeing irorn justice, meets with death; a retiring Englishman begins to assert himself before his domineering wife; rnd a beautiful girl finds the love she has always sought. Heather Angel and Norman Foster have the romantic leads. Other parts are played by Ralph Morgan, Herbert Mundin and Una O’Connor. Box plans at the D.I.C.