OPERA HOUSE
After months of painstaking preparation and research, Alexander Korda, has transferred to the screen the thrilling adventure classic, Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Book.” This stupendous production screens at the Opera House to-day and provides first-class entertainment for everyone. Made in colour, with the magnificent background of the jungle and with the theme of a lost city and hidden treasure woven into the story, in which move Kipling’s jungle people, Shere Khan the tiger, Kaa, the wise snake, Bagheera the Black Panther, and Buldeo, the hunter who has been made into the villain of the film, “The Jungle Book” is exciting and spectacular. Satrj having made his film debut as Toomai of the Elephants, also from the “Jungle Book,” his choice as Mowgli in the new movie might be said to have been foreordained. His only real rival in the film Is Joseph Calleia, who plays the part of the old hunter whose desire for gold leads him into conflict With Mowgli in the jungle. The most spectacular set created for “Jungle Book” was an East Indian dream city—a colour-splashed setting of minarets, domes and parapets, flattopped houses and mysterious stairways. A white temple, gleaming like a vast jewel dominates the scene, with the dense jungle stretching far beyond.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 38, 16 February 1943, Page 3
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209OPERA HOUSE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 38, 16 February 1943, Page 3
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