Motion picture news booking guide (1929)
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APACHE RAIDER, THE. Produced and distributed by Pathe. Released, Feb. 12, 1928. Star and director, Leo Maloney. Scenarist, Ford. I. Beebe. Cameraman, Edward Kull. Length, 5,755 feet.
Theme: Western drama of young westerner who gets his cattle back from unscrupulous rancher, kills him in gun duel, and wins pretty girl.
References: Reviewed issue Feb. 18, 1928, page 572.
Advertising: Insert, Nov. 4, 1927.
ARIZONA CYCLONE. Produced and distributed by Universal. Released. May 6, 1928. Starring Fred Humes with Margaret Gray, Pee Wee Holmes, Ben Corbett. Director, Edgar Lewis. Scenarist, WitHam Lester. Cameraman, Ed. Linden. Length 4,076 feet.
Theme: Western. Owner of ranch sells stock to crook, who plans to get his money back. Young foreman of ranch, who loves owner’s daughter, is spirited away and his crooked cousin, his double, takes his place. The plan works well until the trickery is discovered, and the thieves cast into jail.
References: Advertising: Insert, May 13, 1927.
ARIZONA WILDCAT, THE. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Corp. Released, Nov. 20, 1927. Starring Tom Mix with Dorothy Sebastian and Ben Bard. Director, R. William Neill. Scenarist, John Stone. Cameraman, Dan Clark. Length, 4,665 feet.
Theme: Western action drama. Westerner meets girl of his boyhood days and discovers that she
is prospective victim of a pair of fleecers. When her brother’s polo team is on the verge of (defeat
through the playing of one of the crooks, the boy arrives on the scene just in time to win the game and save girl from the crooks.
References: Reviewed issue March 24, 1928, page 963.
Advertising: Insert, May 8, 1926; insert, May 20; 1304, Oct. 28, 1927.
AVENGING SHADOW, THE. Produced by McConnell Prod. Distributed by Pathe. Released, April 29, 1928. Starring Klondike (Dog). Director, Ray Taylor. Scenarist, Bennett Cohen. Cameramen Harry Cooper and David Smith. Length, 4,293 feet.
Theme: Melodrama. A young bank messenger is sentenced to the pen on a charge of stealing a
payroll. Through the efforts of his dog he reveals the real thieves.
References: Reviewed issue March 31, 1928, page 1043.
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BABY MINE. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released, Jan. 21, 1928. Starring Karl Dane and George K. Arthur with Charlotte Greenwood. Director, Robert Leonard. Scenarists, F. Hugh Herbert and Lew Lipton. Adaptation, Sylvia Thalberg. Cameraman, Faxon Dean. Length, 5,139 feet.
Theme: An exaggerated college comedy from Margaret Mayo’s stage play. Two college boys meet their Waterloo during the semester, and one becomes a wrestler in order to marry the maid. The other manages to win his girl without this extra effort.
References: Reviewed issue Jan. 14, 1928, page 141.
Advertising: Insert, Dec. 16; 2001, Dec. 30; 2064, Dec. 31, 1927; front cover, Jan. 28; front cover, Mar. 24; 1547, May 12, 1928.
BACHELOR’S PARADISE. Produced and distributed by Tiffany-Stahl. Released, March 15, 1928. With Sally O’Neill and Ralph Graves. Director, George Archainbaud. Scenarist, Curtis Benton. Cameraman, Chester Lyons. Length, 6,147 feet.
Theme: Drama of romance and fight ring. Pugilist sprains ankle during street brawl and is taken care of by girl who loves him. Believing her love is returned, she makes preparations for their marriage. Deserting girl at altar, fighter realizes love for girl, when her vision appears to him, while' down for count in ring, and enables him to win battle.
References: Advertising: Pages 1177, Apr. 1; insert, July 22; 817, Sept. 16, 1927; insert, June 23, 1928.
BACK TO GOD’S COUNTRY. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Corp. Released, Sept. 4, 1927. Starring Renee Adoree with Walter Long, Robert Frazer and Mitchell Lewis. Director, Irvin Willat. Scenarist, Charles Logue. Cameraman, George Robinson. Length, 5,751 feet.
Theme: Melodrama of Northwest. Northwest trapper is forced to commit murder in self-defense. His deed is known only to villainous sea captain and his daughter agrees to marry sea captain to protect her father. The story is revealed to American engineer, who plans their escape. This Ss effected with the assistance of the vicious dog whom the heroine has befriended.
References: Review issue July 29, 1927, page 290.
Advertising: Insert, May 13; 2590-91, July 1; 248, July 29; 316-17, August 5, 1927.
BACK TO LIBERTY. Produced and distributed by Excellent Pictures. Released, Nov. 15, 1927. Starring George Walsh with Edmund Breese. Director, Bernard McEveety. Scenarist, Arthur
Hoerl. Cameraman, Marcel Le Picard. Length, 5,980 feet.
Theme: Mystery melodrama. Man, associated with two other crooks, has beautiful daughter. Girl
meets one crook and falls in love with him. He is forbidden the house. Other crook kills girl’s father and her lover is suspected of the murder. Girl through clever ruse, traps murderer into confessing crime, and girl and sweetheart are made happy.
References: Advertising: Page 1639, May 6, 1927.
BALLYHOO BUSTER, THE. Produced by Action Pictures, Inc. Distributed by Pathe. Released, Jan. 8, 1928. Starring Buffalo Bill, Jr. Director, Richard Thorpe. Scenarist, Frank L. Ingraham. Cameraman, Ray Reis. Length, 4,805 feet.
Theme: Western drama of cowhand, who, robbed of his money, temporarily joins medicine show and succeeds in getting his money back from the crooks who drugged him. His girl leaves him; when he becomes penniless, but another girl proves to be loyal and helps him to recover the stolen bills.
References: Reviewed issue Dec. 30, 1927, page 2035.
BANDIT’S SON, THE. Produced and distributed by F B O Pictures. Released, Nov. 20, 1927. Star, Bob Steele. Director, Wallace Fox. Scenarist, Frank Howard Clark. Cameraman, Nick Musuraca. Length, 4,789 feet.
Theme: Western. Ex-gunman, accused of murder and robbery, is saved by his son, who finds the real culprit and stops his dad from being lynched. Restored to good standing he marries daughter of the town parson.