REMARKABLE FILM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20648, 24 June 1935, Page 12

REMARKABLE FILM.

* Lives of a Bengal Lancer ” at Tivoli. The remarkable film “ The Lives of t Bengal Lancer ” is still delighting >ig audiences at the Tivoli Theatre. It s a production of which any company night be proud, for it has for its motif he love of a father for his son, a love ihich he. as a soldier, must hide. The ather is called on to.make the supreme decision—to save his son and leave a sath open for a fanatical horde to weep down on an unprotected countrytide or to keep his men at their posts ind leave his son to die. No cheap nelodrama mars the working-out of his plot: masterful restraint adds dignity and emphasis to the story. “ The biggest fool in the army.” and, ao .0 subsequently p<oved, its cravest man. s Gary Cooper, who has thz pate cf aptain McGregor. He draws a wonleiiiil picture of the care-free sdldiei vno Keeps his thoughts to himselt nu. .0.-\es His country and his regiment in he best'way. It is a role that could asily be spoilt, but with the great irtistrv of Cooper, it is a flawless chaicterisataon. In perfect contrast is the ole of Colonel Stone, played by Sir fuy Standing. Here is the profesional soldier of the old type, a man vho puts his duty before the natural ove he bears for his only son. There is in excellent supporting programme.