PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 253, 25 October 1937, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“WINGS OF THE MORNING.” The greatest film that has ever come from England, and in many respects greater than anything produced in America, “Wings of the Morning,” which, after a successful introduction to Wanganui is continuing at the Plaza Tneatre, places a simple love story against a perfect backscreen of pastel shades and delightful panoramas. England boasts that this, her first film in colour, was absolutely her own production, and with the exception of the charming Fsench actress. Annabella, this is quite true. Of Annabella it can oe said that her beauty rivals that of ir.e scenery of which the film is so ni.i The colour work is something entirely different from the usual production and remarkable for its fidelity. The title is taken from the name of a horse owned by a band of gipsies, aim ridden to victory in the Derby by Steve Donoghue. Annabella, first as an Irisn gipsy, goes to Spain. She icturns as the great granddaughter of the original character, with a slight Latin accent. This picture marks, too, Henry Fonda's greatest success as the horse trainer who falls for Annabella’s captivating whims. The most beautiful scenes occur at Epsom Downs among the gipsies before and after the running of the Derby, and about the lakes of Ireland, while John McCormack sings “Killarney.” The’story itself is a highly amusing comedy, and set as it is amid the beauties of Ireland in colours next to perfect, it makes a picture which must go down as a mark in the progress of moving pictures, and as the greatest triumph of English producers.