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Sunday, July 21, 1918.
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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.