“THE REAL GLORY”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 11

“THE REAL GLORY”

EM PIKE-Bl TLDING THEME OPERA HOUSE FILM “The Real Glory," to commence to-morrow at the Opera House, is a most inspiring film of empirebuilding in the Philippines, in which five American army men and a doetpr are left behind when the army withdraws to train the Filipinos how to fight against thr hordes of bloodthirsty Moros which infest the jungle. The story moves swiftly, and th< acting is very well done. The part ol the medico uses a shrewd knowledge of Filipino psychology to fight the natives’ fear, is played by Gary Cooper, who carries the part in hit characteristic and thoroughly capable manner. David Niven, who in a short film career has become one of the most popular of actors, takes the part of a lieutenant .who does not take kindly to orders, and who wants tc fight the Moros in their own fashion. As the old captain who. conscious oi approaching b'indness through the effects of an old wound, wishes to die in action, Reginald Owen makes the most of one of his all-too-few serious roles. The story tells of the six white men, later joined by two white women who are penned up for months in e Philippine village while the Moros try to entice them one by one into the jungle. Whatever happened to the cinema career of Sigrid Gurie? She has done nothing since “Algiers.”