THE SUPER WONDER PICTURE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1418, 28 June 1917, Page 2

THE SUPER WONDER PICTURE.

“INTOLERANCE.”

The “Sydney Sun” writes of the super . wonder picture, “Intolerance,” as follows: — “There are so many angles from which one can look at “Intolerance” that its tremendous success is not to be wondered at. Where other productions invite attention, it insists upon and gets it. There is a fascination about the picture that cannot be overcome. It simply staggers and dazes after three hours of piling climax upon climax. There is nothing paltry, nothing trivial. Everything has significance, everything is on the grand scale. Splendor vies with magnificence. . One leaves the theatre wondering, and next day one’s mind returns to the marvellous sweep through history, and begins to get a focus of the crimes that have bloodbespattered the world. All the history and narrowness and the welter of agony that has followed in th nr wake flashes before one. Surely history is not going on repeating itself through all eternity? That is the seed Griffith sows. He prepares the brain to receive it, and one vaguely feels that love will rule mankind. Concealed choruses, effects and a thematic orchestral score all contribute to the impressiveness of the production, The illusion is never lost. That “Intolerance” has forced itself upon the popular imagination as has no other super-feature from the cinematographic studios of the new art