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The Filmgoers' Annual
"Tell England — ye who pass this monument — we died for her and here we rest content."
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Bruce and C. M. Hallard do brilliant work. In particular, the scene in which Fay Compton, in the character of Mrs. Doe, hears, in imagination, the departure of the leave train, is one of the most heart-searching k„^.„^_,.-«_.,h^..-^..-^..-^.i-.
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moments ever seen and heard from the screen. Of the actual Gallipoli drama, the landing of the 2()th Division from the River Clyde on V Beach, is reproduced with amazing realism. By the assistance of the Admiralty, the part taken by the Royal Navy in this immortal episode is vividly shown. The Australia and New Zealand troops, whose heroism is now history, are seen in a terrific charge up the heights at Anzac. There is, indeed, shown here, for the first time, the limitless courage and endurance of all men of all ranks in Gallipoli.
British Instructional Films, the producers of this picture ; Anthony Asquith and Geoffrey Barkas, who directed it ; and the company of players who appear in it have reason to be proud of a great work. It is by the making of such
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tion," and by such pictures alone, that our British film producers can realise the ideal expressed by the Prince of Wales when he said that the film industry should be regarded and should be developed as a national industry. There are, surely, in the storied annals of our race manysuch themes as this, and they call aloud for translation into what is, after all, the most emotional of the arts, and the only one of all the arts which can enjoy the priceless privilege of reaching the hearts of the people.
They had fought a battle such as has never been seen upon this earth. What they had done will become a glory for ever, wherever the deeds of heroic unhelped men are honoured and pitied and understood " :
John Masefield in " Gallipoli."
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