ACADEMY THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXX, Issue 9638, 23 June 1941, Page 2

ACADEMY THEATRE

TO-NIGHT’S PROGRAMME„

Charles Chauvel, famed producerdirector, used a huge location setting among sweeping sand dunes on the south headland of Botany Bay for action scenes in his Australian Light Horse film, “Forty Thousand Horsemen,” to lie screened at the Academy Theatre to-night, to-morrow and on Wednesday The famous Sinai Desert garrison village of El Arisli was completely reconstructed, including minaret, mosque, wells, native market places, adobe huts, palm trees, and the crumbling wall which Napoleon erected many years before the arrival of the Diggers. The picture is said to he good, speedy, spectacular entertainment—culminating in some of the finest acting seen on the screen. It, blends adventure, spy melodrama and romance into the great history of the Light Horse in Palestine in the last war, and with astounding panoramas, it covers Egyptian cities, battles, desert manoeuvres, village life, and the final crashing charge of Beersheba, which sets a new high for cold thrills. The picture is, of bourse, an Australian production.