The Film Daily (1918)

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Sunday, July 21, 1918. •tft^b DAILY Routine Treatment of Very Ancient Story. Is Just a Movin' Pi'ture Carlyle Blackwell in "THE GOLDEN WALL" World Pictures DIRECTOR Dell Henderson AUTHOR Clara Beranger SCENARIO BY Clara Beranger CAMERAMAN Louis Ostland AS A WHOLE Very ancient material with good and bad spots. Most folks will have the finish doped out from the start. STORY Our old friend the "Incog Prince," who lands a bride by keeping his title secret. DIRECTION Not distinctive. Didn't work up any suspense with result that you knew what was going to happen all through this. PHOTOGRAPHY Just ordinary with result that a few good bits stood out in such contrast that it looked as though they didn't belong. LIGHTINGS Varied from good to ordinary CAMERA WORK Satisfactory STAR Was pleasing, but story was so obvious that he really didn't get to you. SUPPORT Satisfactory; you wanted to see more of Johnny Hines; his small part stuck out. EXTERIORS Some beautiful; others ordinary INTERIORS Satisfactory DETAIL Convenient with several noticeable slips CHARACTER OF STORY Not objectionable but doesn't interest. LENGTH OF PRODUCTION About 4,500 feet MAYBE the folks who take them as they come and say nothing will accept this as entertainment, but it certainly is very, very old stuff and nothing has been done to make it distinctive or lift the ancient story. It's just "movie." As soon as the story opens and hero, as the Marquis Some-thing-or-other, has hocked the "jools" and started for America, your folks are going to slide back into a comfortable position and say, "Well, here we are again." Of course, hero keeps his title secret and gets a job managing shero's estate, and the rest of the story is so obvious that you can close your eyes at intervals of ten minutes and know just what has happened during the interim. To make a hero out of hero they had him rescue shero's dog from the river, and they sure had some time making the dog play that he was drowning. After hero brought him safely to shore, Bowser was just rarin' to go back into the water again. We had considerable business between hero and Madge Evans, who was shero's little sister, but it just made footage and had little to do with the plot. Shero was in the habit of taking horseback rides alone, and on one of these occasions she and hero, who had followed her, are locked in a tower. Shero accuses hero of framing this on purpose and slaps him on the wrist, and she does, after which hero conveniently finds a rope and goes to the ground for help, making a jump from the roof to a nearby tree, a la Doug, on the way down. During the time they are in the tower, heTO says that he would never consider marrying her unless she was as poor as he, or he as rich as she, so later, she asks to be left out of papa's will so she can marry hero. In the meantime, Johnny Hines has gone west to invest in the oil scheme, for which hero had furnished the money on a fifty-fifty basis and he returns, just when you expect him to. with scads of money, Hero's share of which makes him rich. Hero and shero are then united, and of course everything is rosy when she learns that he has a title and everything besides. Johnny Hines had little to do, but did that well, and you wanted to see more of him ; he lifted the finish of this decidedly. Evelyn Greely was an acceptable shero and others who appeared were Winifred Leighton. Jack Drumier. Florence Coventry. George McQuarrie, Louise de Rigne, Kate Lester and A. G. Corbell.