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Kinema Guide
Week Commencing DEC. 15th.
REDEMPTION
THE producers of this film claim that it has provided John Gilbert with his most dramatic role.
"The Living Corpse," Tolstoy's great book, is the source drawn upon by Arthur Hopkins when he wrote 'Redemption" as a drama and now Dorothjr Farnum has readapted it for use on the screen.
Fred Niblo, of "Ben Hur" fame, has produced the picture which does not, even after the two adaptations necessary, depart very considerably from the story ' as originally written by Tolstoy.
A subject such as this needs serious consideration and btudy before production and the claim made by "Metro Goldwyn Mayer," that their research experts spent several months in investigating Russian characteristics and ''atmosphere" seems to be justified by the result.
The story of Fedya, the Russian officer, drawn away from his beloved wife and associations by Lisa, the Gipsy, is in the film, as it was in the novel, a phsycological study. The great difference between the two Fedyas, that of the book and that of the film lies in the fact stated, as reason given for his degradation. Tolstoy makes him a madman, but Miss Farnum brings out hereditary gipsy characteristics as the cause for his fall.
The film is a good one and is definitely worth seeing. The picture of pre-revolution Eussia is convincing and the characters of Fedya, Masha, Victor and Lisa are well drawn by John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Boardman.
Anyone that saw and liked "The Cossacks" will enjoy "Redemption."