1937-10-29 — Page 13

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with Richard Cromwell

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 29, 1937

لال الاية البير

BACK

GREATEST WAR PICTURE EVER SCREENED

THE MAGNIFICENT SEQUEL TO “ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

WHY ERICH MARIA REMARQUES NOVEL,

“THE ROAD BACK,” HAD TO WAIT

UNTIL NOW TO REACH SCREEN

The Story of What Happers After Armistice Is Signed

James Whale Directs

Production From

Screen Play by

R. C. Sherriff

And Charles

Kenyon

IAL

Greta Gynte as thewife who could not stand loneliness

Maurice Murphy jealously traps

his sweetheart's boy, friend

Homecoming Soldiers Trapped

By Hunger And Mass Unrest

Erich Maria Remarque's novel, "The Road Back," had to wait six years to be filmed. It was not until this year that world conditions made its production for the screen possible Its predecessor “All Quiet On the Western Front” “was not "produced until 1929, ten years after the end of the World Waz

ducers behered

There were very definite reasons why it had to

so long. Pro

such a picture lar, immediately flict, with mothers, rfs who had lost en it was released. the most talked

would not be after the

Joved

“ATI:

have applied to the story of what any after the war. the readjustments, the awful depres

close to hom and human” senti

ched a point.

is-entir

John King speaks for his friend's life

The road back from war, is an ternational problem with which the world has been struggling for the last eighteen years. The roa hack has become more humanly important than the war which caused it- The World War lasted four years. The road back has taken eighteen ye to traverse and the end is not m sight. The World War cost millions of lives. As many lives have fallen on the road back

When Erich Maria Ren The Road Back" he emotions of 2

torn people: so. graphic was forced into exile. But

ness of his book has won m the friendship of the world.

Two men who went through the same experiences that so burned into Remarque's - soul – James Whale and E C. Sherriff have brought this significant and soul-stirring no- vel to the screen for Universal Stu-

situation was more comple-

large measure their

shared by the bo armies. The shock of readi

a universal experien world has read Remarque' The world will now witness Whale's film prod

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