Motion picture news booking guide (1929)

164 MOTION PICTURE NEWS WINDS OF THE PAMPAS. Produced and distributed by Hi Mark Prod. Released, October, 1927. Starling Claire McDowell with Anne Drew, Ralph Cloninger, Edwin Davis. Director and scenarist, Arthur Vainey. Cameraman, David W. Gobbet. Length, 5,436 feet. Theme: Melodrama. | Adaptation from novel by Elynor Ewing, presenting story of a bitter feud waged between two foster brothers, with its locale laid in the windswept wastes of the Argentine Pampas. The love of son of one foster brother for daughter of the other, ultimately brings matters to a happy climax. WISE WIFE, THE. Produced by DeMille Pictures Corp. Distributed by Pathe. Released. Oct. 24, 1927. With Phyllis Haver, Tom Moore, Jacqueline Logan and Joseph Striker. Director, E. Mason Hopper. Scenarists, Zelda Sears and Tay Garnett. Cameraman, Frank Good. Length, 5,610 feet. Theme: Marital drama of wife and another woman, who battle for the husband. The wife wins out after she has changed her mode of dress and aroused her husband's jealousy. References: Reviewed issue Dec. 16, 1927, page 1903. Advertising: Insert, Aug. 5; insert, Oct. 21; insert, Nov. 11; insert, Nov. 18; insert, Nov. 25, 19127. WIZARD, THE. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Corp. Released, Dec. 11, 1927. With Edmund Lowe, Leila Hyams, Gustav Von SeyfFeritz and Barry Norton. Director, Richard Rosson. Scenarist, Harry O. Hoyt. Cameraman, Frank Good. Length, 5,629 feet. Theme: Mystery drama. Adapted from the Gaston Leroux play, “Balaoo.” Girl and her father are invited to neighbor’s mansion, after they received threatening messages. In reality, the neighbor is insane and has trained an ape to kill. A young reporter discovers this and when the girl and her parent are captured, he saves them from the ape, which kills its master. References: Advertising: One page insert, May 20; 15-16, July 8; 92, July 15; 895, Sept. 23; insert, Nov. 25; insert, Dec. 9; insert, Dec. 16, 1927. WIZARD OF THE SADDLE. Produced and distributed by F B O. Released, Jan. 22, 1928. Starring Buzz Barton. Director and scenarist, Frank Howard Clark. Cameraman, Roy Eslick. Length, 4,805 feet. Theme: Western melodrama of boy and man and their efforts to aid girl and her father save mine from gang of counterfeiters. A surveyor in the neighborhood, in reality a government official, assists them in defeating the villains. References : Reviewed issue Dec. 30, 1927, page 2036. WOLF FANGS. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Corp. Released, Nov. 27, 1927. With Thunder (dog), Charles Morton and Caryl Lincoln. Director, Lew Seiler. Scenarists, Seton I. Miller and Elizabeth Pickett.. Cameraman, L. W. O’Connell. Length, 5,331 feet. Theme: Melodrama of the Sheep Country. Puppy turned wild because of the brutality of the sheep herder gains his leadership of the pack and returns in time to save the girl who had befriended him from the further brutality of her uncle. References: Reviewed issue Dec. 16, 1927, page 1902. Advertising: Insert, Nov. 25; insert, Dec. 16, 1927. WOLF’S TRAIL. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Corp. Released, Oct. 2, 1927. Starring Dynamite (dog) with Edmund Cobb and Dixie Lamont. Director, Francis Ford. Adaptation, Basil Dickey. Cameraman, Jerry Ash. Length, 4,167 feet. Theme: Melodrama. Smuggler fears for his life when dog invades neighborhood. His ward, not aware of his smuggling, falls in love with ranger disguised as outlow in order to get evidence of smuggling. Smuggler discovers his identity, but by means of physical prowess and dog’s aid, ranger escapes smuggler’s plot and wins girl. References: Advertising: Insert, May 13, 1927. Exploitation: Page 1257, Oct. 21, 1927. WOMAN AGAINST THE WORLD, A. Produced and ditributed by Tiffany-Stahl. Released, Jan. 1, 1928. With Harrison Ford and Georgia .Hale. Director, George Archainbaud. Scenarist, Gertrude Orr. Cameraman, Chester Lyons. Length, 5,283 feet. Theme: Modem melodrama of newspaper life. Girl newspaper reporter loves man who is accused of murdering a chorus gfrl, convicted and sentenced to the chair. While her editor thinks man guilty, she believes him innocent and just as he is about to pay penalty for the crime, she forces a chauffeur to confess his guilt and her lover is freed. References: Advertising: Pages 1177, Apr. 1; insert, July 22; 817, Sept. 16, 1927; .insert, June 23, 1928. WOMAN IN THE NIGHT, A. Produced by British Int. Pictures, Inc. Distributed by World Wide Pictures, Inc. Starring Maria Corda and Jameson Thomas.' Director, Victor Saville. Cameraman, Werner Brandes. Length, 7,955 feet. Theme: Domestic drama. Five years after marriage young couple are happy but long for children. Wife secretly consults doctor. She goes away alone and accidently meets handsome stranger who later proves to be friend of husband. Before baby’s birth, husband suspects and tragedy threatens. But he takes babe to his heart and all ends happily. WOMAN ON TRIAL, THE. Produced and distributed by Paramount. Released, Oct. 29, 1927. Starring Pola Negri with Einar Hanson and Arnold Kent. Director, Mauritz Stiller. Scenarist, Elsie Von Koczain. Cameraman, Bert Glennon. Length, 5,960 feet. Theme: Emotional drama from play by Ernest Vajda. Having married an unloved man, to get money to save from illness the man she loves, a woman is “framed” by husband to rob her of child she adores. After she has shot husband, and is brought to trial for murder, the woman is freed by the jury when she tells her story. Later she joins other man. References: Reviewed issue Oct. 14, 1927, page 1188. . __ . Advertising: One page insert, Apr. 17, 1926; insert, May 13; insert, May 27; insert, Sept. 16, 1927. WOMAN’S WAY, A. Produced a'nd distributed by Columbia. Released, Feb. 18, 1928. With Warner Baxter and Margaret Livingston. Director, Edward Mortimer. Scenarist, Izola Forrester. Cameraman, Ray June. Length, 5,472 feet. Theme: French underworld melodrama. American is in love with Parisian cafe dancer but she fears to encourage his suit because of an Apache. When latter is jailed lovers are free until Apache escapes and returns to Paris to slay American. Girl is wounded during struggle with Apache. Police arrive and shoot Apache, paving way for lover’s happiness. References: Advertising: Insert, May 6; 1901. May 20; insert, July 15, 1927. WOMAN WISE. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Corp. Released, Jan. 8, 1928. With William