STORY OF THE SOIL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 3

STORY OF THE SOIL.

“ Song of the Plough ” for Plaza. A thrilling drama, “ On Secret Service,” heads the entertaining programme at the Plaza Theatre this week. “ Song of the Plough,” a superbly photographed British production, will head the new programme at the Plaza Theatre on Saturday. “ Song of the Plough,” which has been produced in a most finished and artistic style, stands out definitely as the finest picture in its own style that any English studio has yet made, and it should meet with popular support. The story is simple, as a story of the soil should be, yet it is told with such directness and it is so much in keeping with its setting, that it becomes an almost perfect screen scenario. It is, in effect, a vignette of a farmer’s difficulties, which are seen to be very much the same in England as they arc here. The farmer. faced with the payment of his tithe levies and pressed by his bank, is tempted to sell his clever sheep-dog Glen, but sentimental ties make this impossible. His great opportunity lies in the dog’s chancerof winning the sheep-dog trials, and around this situation, hum-drum, per haps, yet essentially true to life, a very captivating story has been written. The film, however, could stand on its pictorial value alone. The magnificence of the rolling downs, the chan n and interest of typical English rural life, and the delightful character studies revealed, all contribute to the entertainment value of a show which is far from the ordinary. It will come as a revelation to those who have onlv read of the English countryside, and it will bring back delightful reminiscences to those who have actually seen “ fair England's green and pleasant land.” Box plans at the D.I.C.