1000 and One--the Blue Book of Non-Theatrical Films (1926)

Record Details:

Title:
1000 and One--the Blue Book of Non-Theatrical Films
Date:
1926
Publisher:
Chicago, Educational Screen
Volume:
1000 and One: The Blue Book of Non-Theatrical Films (1926)
Leaf #:
000115
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Catalogs","Motion pictures in education
Collection:
Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
April 11, 2024
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Fourth Edition THEATRICAL REVIEWS 107 The Song of Love (8) An Arab love story with Norma Talmadge as a dancing girl amid much plotting. Joseph Schildkraut plays opposite, and Edmund Careve gives a splendid performance as a desert chieftain. Not, however, up to Talmadge standard. (Mar. 1924) (III) A Son of His Father (7) A Harold Bell Wright western nicely done though never surprisingly so. Warner Baxter and Bessie Love. (Dec. 1925) FCA-y (VII) A Son of the Sahara (8) Another "Shiek" picture whose sole virtue lies in the setting — it's really the Sahara. (June 1924) (III) So This is Marriage (7) The triangle again, with Lew Cody making trouble between Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel. Fair. (Oct. 1925) (XIII) Soul Fire (9) The dramatic storv of a composer, with a highlv emotional part for Richard Barthelmess. (Sept/l925) PTA-a (III) The Spaniard (7) Ricardo Cortez gives a sparkling performance of the ardent lover who carries off his lady and imprisons her in his castle. Good Spanish atmosphere. Jetta Goudal and Noah Beery. (June 1925) (VII) The Splendid Crime (6) A crook story with a neat little moral. Bebe Daniels and Neil Hamilton. (Mar. 1926) PTA-f (VII) Sporting Life (7) Drury Lane melodrama, spectacular and exciting. Bert Lytell, Marion Nixon. (Mar. 1926) PTA-a (XXVII) Sporting Youth (7) Plenty of go about this racing picture. The engaging Reginald Dennv at the wheel. Laura La Plante in support. (Sept. 1924) (XXVII) Stage Struck (7) Jenny, the waitress, loves Orme, the pancake artist, and because he is infatuated with actresses of all kinds, she endeavors to make an actress of herself in order to win him. Good comedy with Gloria Swanson and Lawrence Gray. <Jan. 1926) PTA-f (VII) Stephen Steps Out (6) A new way to learn Turkish history. A boy's adventures under the Star and Crescent, thoroughly entertaining. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Theodore Roberts, Noah Beery, Harry Mvers, and others. Children will enjoy it, especially boys. (Mar. 1924) " PTA-y (VII) The Story Without a Name (7) An exaggerated thriller by Arthur Stringer, featuring Agnes Ayres and Antonio Moreno. (Dec. 1924) (VII) The Stranger (6) Galsworthy's study of self-satisfied man who allows innocent man to die for a crime rather than involve his name and reputation in scandal. Emphasis is placed on the stranger substituted for real criminal. Fine production, with Lewis Stone, Richard Dix, Tullv Marshall, and Betty Uompson. (May 1924) (VII) Sundown (9) An excellent though somewhat melancholy record of the passing of cattle men and cattle country. Bessie Love, Roy Stewart, Hobart Bosworth, and Charles Murrav. Children. (Nov. 1924) PTA-f FCA-f (ni) Sun-Uo (7) Unconvincing story of Kentuckv mountaineers and the war. Pauline Starke, and Conrad Nagel. (Oct. 1925) PTA-a (XIII) The Swan (7) A clever stage plav done to death in the film. (Apr. 1925) (VII) T Tarnish (7) A nicely balanced filming of Gilbert Emery's stage play. May MacAvoy, Marie Prevost, Ronald Colman. Excellent impersonation bv Albert Gran of a philandering father. (Feb. 1925) (III) The Temple of Venus (7) Cheap, trashy, and sensational. (Feb. 1924) (IX) . The Ten Commandments (14) The Biblical prologue magnificentlv done and wholly worth while. The rest of story is. average, but in the main interesting. Theodore Roberts, Richard Dix, Rod LaRocque, Leatrice Jov, Nita Naldi, and Edythe Chapman included in a fine cast. (Sept. 1924) * PTA-y (VII) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (8) Unconvincing in spite of some fine moments m the acting of Blanche Sweet and Conrad Nagel. (Nov. 1924) (XIII) Thank U (7) The popular Golden stage play. PTA-f (IX) The Thief of Bagdad (10) Sheer beauty and" imagination carried to the nth degree, and Douglas Fairbanks moving through it with poetic rhvthm. Children, certainly. (Sept. 1924) FCA-f (XXIV) A Thief in Paradise (8) A long-lost-son storv with Ronald Colman as the good bad man. Bad psychology. (Mar. 1925) PTA-a (III) Those Who Dance (7) Relating the adventure of prohibition agent, with plenty of action. In some respects telling piece of propaganda against bootlegger and rum runner. Warner Baxter, Blanche Sweet, and Bessie Love. (June 1925) (XIII) Three Weeks (7) Silly rather than shocking. (June 1924) (XIII)