The Times (15/Nov/1922) - Films of the Week

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FILMS OF THE WEEK.

BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH.

Another film with rural Scotland for its setting is to be seen this week in Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, a Famous Lasky picture based on the novel of the same name by Ian MacLaren.

There is a wholly pleasant flavour about this mid-Victorian story, which treats of the love of a village girl and a man "above her station," the son of a proud Scottish peer. Her father, shepherd of the peer's flocks, turns her out of his home and his life, but in time his heart is softened by a reminder that his own wife, her mother, was a woman above his station. There are some excellent characterizations of Scottish village types, and the cast includes several established favourities, such as Miss Mary Glynne, Mr. Alex Framer, Mr. Langhorne Burton, Miss Dorothy Fane, and Mr. Donald Crisp.