The Film Daily (1918)

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Sunday, July 14, 1918 Tjjutt DAILV Interesting Spy Mystery Story Helped Decidedly by Star and Miss Little Wallace Reid in "THE FIREFLY OF FRANCE" Paramount DIRECTOR Donald Crisp AUTHOR Marion Polk Angellotti SCENARIO BY Margaret Turnbull AS A WHOLE Interesting mystery lifted decidedly by personalities of star and girl. Doesn't really convince or grip but holds at= tention nicely. STORY Rather well worked out and possible war spy mixup that will keep them guessing unless they see it backwards. DIRECTION Gave very satisfactory atmos= phere but failed to make dramatic moments anything but straight meller. PHOTOGRAPHY Generally very good. Night battle scenes effective. LIGHTINGS Some fine, some fair CAMERA WORK Quite satisfactory STAR Pleasing hero, girls will think him "grand." SUPPORT Miss Little excellent; other types very good. EXTERIORS Very satisfactory INTERIORS Good DETAIL Good CHARACTER OF STORY Has some patriotic kicks in titles and action. LENGTH OF PRODUCTION About 4fc5oo feet WALLY REID as an aviator who has made good, telling his story of how he won the Cross of Honor, unfolds to us in this a very interesting spy mystery which holds the attention right up to the melodramatic finish despite the fact that it seldom hits any dramatic high spots. The tale as unfolded has to do with Mr. Reid starting to France to enlist as an aviator before this country entered the war and we get action in the very first reel that makes you sit up and take notice because we find, in a hotel infested with German spies, that Wally's trunk has been opened by a man who does a rather sen sational getaway. Following this man into another room in the hotel, Wally is confronted by Miss Little who says that no man has entered her room. Later, on a boat headed for France, Wally finds Miss Little again and the man who seems to be following and watching her. When the British officials board the boat, Wally is questioned and his baggage opened with the result that a document stolen by a German spy in America is found. This was why his trunk had been opened in the hotel and we now find him under arrest but his explanation is finally accepted after wires are received vouching for his patriotism. Later. Wally very conveniently bumps into the shero again in a little French town and now the man who was following her warns him to clear out stating that the girl is a tool of the German Spy System and that he is a secret service man following her. AVally refuses to abandon the lady in distress. Her chauffeur is mysteriously murdered and he agrees to drive her ear with the result that he takes to a lonely chateau where they find, upon arrival, the secret service man and three others have gotten there before them and that the four men are really German spies seeking a document held by a French aviator who has disappeared. We have a free-for-all fight which results in Wally and Ann escaping to a secret room where they find the aviator who has the precious document and also a duplicate prepared so that it might fall into the hands of the Germans. Wally surrenders this duplicate and himself and is then forced by the Germans, since their passport calls for four officers, to ride in their car in the place of the man he has killed. When the car approaches the shell torn battlefield and the sentry stops them, Wally denounces the spies and a fight follows which is interrupted by an explosion of a shell which blows the car to pieces and lands Wally in a hospital where he is afterwards decorated for bravery and told that the spies have met their just punishment. He has been led to believe that Miss Little was in love with the French aviator but now finds that she was a relative and so we get our accepted clutch finish. In flie cast were Charles Ogle. Raymond Hattan. Winter Hall, Ernest Joy. Clarence Goldert and William Elder. Georc^ Loane Tucke ^feManx Man* Dod^aMilliorf ^Cinderella Man'7 !Joan of Platoburc^