TUDOR THEATRE

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 6173, 15 March 1948, Page 5

TUDOR THEATRE

TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY “HOTEL BERLIN” With the explosiveness of the latest air raid in force over enemy territory, Warner’s “Hotel Berlin,” will screen at the Tudor Theatre tomorrow and Wednesday. Adapted from Vicki Baum’s (she wrote “Grand Hotel”) most daring and sensational novel, the film stars Faye Emerson, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre and Helmut Dantine. Inasmuch -as the picture goes a long way in clarifying the immediate and imminent problems confronting the world today, this reviewer unstintingly recommends that “Hotel Berlin” be seen—at once—by everyone. “Hotel Berlin” tells the story that has been smouldering behind the west wall for more than five years of total war and a grim tale it is, depicting the machinations of the men and women who plan future wars in the shadow of today’s dead. Here is the behind-the-scenes story of doomed Berlin, strangled in the throes of defeat. Here are the capital’s great and her near-great, her famous and infamous, stripped of their lies, making their last deperate bids for survival.