“Man Who Reclaimed His Head.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20542, 18 February 1935, Page 3

“Man Who Reclaimed His Head.”

A story of unusual timeliness is unfolded in “ The Man Who Reclaimed His Head,” the Universal drama which comes to the Tivoli Theatre shortly. The picture exposes the activities of the international munitions manufacturers in fomenting war, subject of the recent senatorial investigation in Washington, and lays much of the blame for the Great War squarely at the door of these professional moulders of public opinion. Claude Rains, Joan Bennett and Lionel Atwill head the players. and all are excellent in their roles. Other members of an exceptionally fine cast are three-year-old Baby Jane, Wallace Ford, Lloyd Hughes and Lawrence Grant. The fascinating story presents R£ins as a plodding writer, content to live in virtual poverty with his wife Adele (Joan Bennett). He finally achi?ves prosperity when he enters the service of Henri Dumont (Lionel, Atwill), a publisher, and writes articles against war w'hich appear under Dumont’s name in his “ Pacifist Journal.” But to ensure his political future, Dtimont secretly works with the munitions makers, and on the declaration of war Rains is sent to the front. The publisher’s influence keeps the warhating soldier in the trenches, while he himself proceeds to a conquest of the writer’s wife.