A GREAT FILM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

A GREAT FILM

GOOD ENGLISH SPOKEN IN “DISRAELI” “ ‘Disraeli’ is the finest talkie 1 have yet seen,” writes the Auckland Suu ' s Sydney correspondent. “I t is the pinnacle of the talkie art as we now know it. To begin with, how one did appreciate its good English. For the whole of the cast, with the exception of one girl, was English. Then, Arliss in the character of that extraordinary old man, alien in race and alien in temperament, who ruled England so successfully, revealed himself as a truly great actor. “There is no comparison between this film and the silent one made some years ago by Mr Arliss. ' The talkie version ;s bigger and better in every way. Besides, the addition of the voices naturally make s ‘Disraeli’ ever so much n.ore interesting. ‘There arc one or two blemishes, minor ones of course, also historical inaccuracies- For instance, the Americans have inserted a few of their own newspaper headlines commencing “Prime Minister Disraeli Says,” etc., the sort of thing that England never knew until Lord Northcliffe started the Daily Mail. It would have shocked the prim Victorians beyond words. One of the besetting sins of the cinema industry is the extravagant language employed to advertise its wares. On this occasion, however, nine-tenths of it will he true.”