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KlNEMA GUIDE Week Commencing Jan. 5th.
THE NIGHT WATCH
Seen at Queen's Hall, Cricklewood.
From Mrs. E. I. Brown.
68, Aberdare Gardens.
South Hampstead.
WHEN I went to the Cinema on Saturday I intended entering for this Competition and, with that end in view took it for granted that my choice would be "Around the Corner,'*' the big Talkie of the programme.
The question of my liking or dislike for that picture does not arise, because a lesser film, and a silent one at that, left a far clearer impression on my mind, and it is therefore of ''The Night Watch" that I shall write.
To pull the plot to pieces would not be very difficult, but then neither would it be particularly sensible, for even if one admits that there are a number of obvious improbabilities one can still say that the result is a good story well told.
I consider that the photography was good, more particularly in view of the fact that the action takes place almost entirely below decks in a battleship.
The interest,, at least my interest, was sustained throughout, notwithstanding an entire lack of any comic relief.
The acting was excellent throughout and in fact it is impossible to single out one or other of the principle players for particular mention.
The types picked out to take the parts of the French Xaval Officers and ratings are excellently chosen, and in fact, to me. as one who cannot really claim to know anything of French Warships, the whole picture was most convincing.
The story, while not a highly probably one, is at least not impossible, and it is not of many films, serious or comic, that one can say this.
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