Motion picture news booking guide (1929)

BOOKING GUIDE 103 BANTAM COWBOY. Produced and distributed by F B O. Released, Aug. 12, 1928. Starring Buzz Barton with Nancy Drexel and Frank Rice. Director, Louis King. Adaptation, Frank Howard Clark. Cameraman, Roy Eslick. Length, 4,893 feet. Theme: Western melodrama. Bantam cowboy and his pal rescue sheriff’s sweetheart, who has been kidnapped by father’s ranch foreman, and also saves life of father. Crooks, swearing vengeance, tell sheriff that pals did the kidnapping and he arrests them. Girl’s father finally apprehends real bandits, pals are freed and sheriff and his sweetheart are happy. BARBED WIRE. Produced and distributed by Paramount. Released, Sept. 10, 1927. Starring Pola Negri with Clive Brook and Einar Hanson. Director, Rowland V. Lee. Adaptation, Jules Furthman. Cameraman, Bert Glennon. Length, 6,951 feet. Theme: Adapted from Hall Caine’s “Woman of Knockaloe.” War drama. French, peasant girl falls in love with German prisoner. Saved from French officer’s attack by her lover, she is despised by her village when her feelings for him become known. With the return of her supposedly lost brother, all .such hatreds dissipate and happiness results. References: Advertising: Insert, Dec. 4; 2464, Dec. 31, 1926; insert, May 13; insert, May 27; insert, July 22; 81, July 15; 417, Aug. 12; 565, 568, Aug. 26; 736-37, Sept. 9; insert, Sept. 16; 885, Sept. 23; 1151, Oct. 14; 1528, Nov. 18; insert, Dec. 30, 1927; 760, Mar. 10. 1928. BARE KNEES. Produced by Gotham Prod. Distributed by Lumas Film Corp. Released, June, 1928. Starring Virginia Lee Corbin with Donald Keith, Jane Winton, Johnnie Walker, Forrest Stanley, Director, Erie C. Kenton. Scenarist, Harold Shumate. Cameraman, James Diamond, Length, 5,268 feet. Theme: Drama in which a flapper visits her married sister in a small town and shocks them with her modernism. She gradually converts them to her ideas, and rescues her sister from becoming unfaithful to her husband. Theme: Romantic comedy of working girl with ambition to be rich. After setting trap for wealthy man she realizes that love of poor but honest youth is best. References: Reviewed issue Jan. 28, 1928, page 280. Advertising: Pages 2257, June 10; 163, July 22, 1927; inside front cover, Feb. 4, 1928. BEAU SABREUR. Produced and distributed by Paramount. Released, Jan. 7, 1928. With Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, Noah Beery, William Powell. Director, John Waters. Adaptor, Tom Geraghty. Cameraman, C. Edgar Schoenbaum. Length, 6,536 feet. Theme: Romantic drama from novel of Percival C. Wren of French Foreign Legion, with central figure combining love and duty in fighting his enemies and saving the heroine. References: Reviewed issue Jan. 28, 1928, page 280. Advertising: Insert, Dec. 4, 1926 ; 271, Jan. 28; one page insert, May 13; insert, May 20; 81, July 15; insert, July 22; 246, July 29; 418, Aug. 12; 736-37, Sept. 9; insert. Sept. 16; insert, Sept. 30; 1528, Nov. 18; 1608, Nov. 25; 1857, Dec. 16; 1930, Dec. 23; insert, Dec. 30; two page insert, Dec. 31, 1927; insert, Jan. 7; insert, also page 171, Jan. 21; insert, Feb. 4; insert, also page 411, Feb. 11; insert, Feb. 18; 760, Mar. 19; 1237, Apr. 21, 1928. BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB. Produced and distributed by Tiflany-Stahl. Released, Aug. 1, 1928. Starring Patsy Ruth Miller with Charles Byers and Gretel Yoltz. Director, Elmer Clifton. Scenarist, John Francis Natteford. Cameraman, Guy Wilkie. Length, 6,157 feet. Theme: Comedy romance of a steno’s successful crusade to snare her boss. She learns her personality has no appeal, so she drops her mannish clothes and blossoms forth as a simpering flapper. She develops sex appeal plus and though her boss is nonplussed for a time she wins him in the end. References: Advertising: Pages 1177, Apr. 1; insert, July 22; 817, Sept. 16, 1927; insert, June 23, 1928. BECKY. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released, Nov. 12, 1927. With Sally O’Neill and Owen Moore. Director, John P. McCarthy. Scenarist, Marion Constance Blackton. Cameraman, John Arnold. Length, 6,433 feet. Theme: Comedy-drama of a girl’s hesitancy in choosing between two men. She thinks she loves the rich one, but when he begins to slander her the poor man shows his rival his error. Becky then realizes her affection for her poor lover, a crook, and he reforms. References: Advertising: Insert, May 27; 489, Aug. 19; insert, Dec. 16, 1927. Exploitation: Pages 1818, Dec. 9; 2028., Dec. 30, 1927. * BEN HUR. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released, Oct. 8, 1927. With Ramon Novarro, Betty Bronson, May McAvoy, Carmel Myers and Francis X. Bushman. Director, Fred Niblo. Adaptation, June Matljis. Scenarists, Carey Wilson and Bess Meredyth. Cameramen, Rene Guissart, Karl Struss, Percy Hilburn and Clyde De Vinna. Length, 11,693 feet. Theme: Romantic historical drama. .In Jerusalem during Herod’s reign, Ben Hur, son of a wealthy Jew, and Messala, a Roman, are boyhood friends, but separate later because of racial differences Through Messala’s treachery Ben Hur serves three years in the galleys. He falls in dove with Esther. In a great chariot race at Antioch he wins, despite foul play by Messala. He escapes a plot by Messala against his life and weds Esther. References: Reviewed issue Jan. 16, 1926, page 301. Advertising: Pages 7, July 1; 117, July 8; 1085, 1088, Sept. 2; 2365, Nov. 11; 2725, Dec. 2; 2845, Dec. 9; 2981, Dec. 16, 1922; 660, Feb. 10; 884, Feb. 24. 1923 ; 2156, May 8; front cover, May 29; insert, June 5; insert, July 17; insert, Dec. 11, 1926 ; 8, Jan. 7; insert, May 27; 2252, June 10; front cover also 2324, June 17; insert, July 8; front cover also 88, July 15; front cover, July 22; front cover also insert, July 29; insert, Aug. 5; insert, Aug. 12; front cover also 489, Aug. 19; 2 page insert also front cover, Sept. 9; insert, Sept. 23; front cover, Sept. 30; front cover, Oct. 14; front cover, Oct. 21; front cover also insert, Oct. 28; front cover, Nov. 4; 1468, Nov. 11, 1927 ; 9, Jan. 7; front cover, Jan. 14; front cover, also 174, Jan. 21; front cover, Jan. 28; front cover, also insert, Feb. 11; 489, Feb. 18; front cover, Feb. 25; insert, Mar. 3; insert. Mar. 10; front cover. Mar. 24; front cover, also insert, Mar. 31; 1647, May 12; insert, May 19; insert, June 2; 2151. June 30, 1927. Exploitation: Pages 1496, Nov. 11; 1819, Dec. 9; 1964, Dec. 23, 1927; 207, Jan. 21; 887, Mar. 17, 1928 BEWARE OF BLONDES. Produced and distributed by Columbia. Released, July 1, 1928. Starring Dorothy Revier, Matt Moore, Roy D’Arcy with Robert Edeson and Hazel Howell. Director, George B. Seitz. Scenarist, Peter Milne. Cameraman, Joe Walker. Length, 5,649 feet. Theme. Crook drama. Two gangs of jewel thieves plan to steed valuable emarald in transit from San Francisco to Honolulu. Bank messenger is warned to beware of blondes, as one is notorious international crook. Messenger falls for blonde on boat, is doped and jewel robbed. Climax reveals girl who has taken emerald, as detective sent to outwit crooks. References: Advertising: Insert, May 6; 1900, May 20; insert, July 15, 1927. BEWARE OF MARRIED MEN. Produced and distributed by Warner. Released, January 14, 1928.