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193 CLASS 8— Dramas
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And the truck goes to the front!
Beery and Hatton don't look like "chow" to a bunch of hungry doughboys in the front-line trenches and the pair make their get-away, only to find that, instead of running to the rear, they are out in No Man's Land.
The ensuing scenes are a "wow." The air raid, inspection, and especially the scenes with the tank in No Man's Land, are among the funniest ever filmed. The picture starts with a chuckle and works into laughter that continues right through to the end. It is remarkable in that almost every scene of the picture contains a laugh.
As a pair of dumb doughboys, who get into all the trouble possible in the army. Beery and Hatton win first honors. If it hurts you to laugh, don't expose yourself to the mercies of this picture. "Behind the Front" will chase the gloom off the face of the most confirmed pessimist.
4916 feet standard length — on 5 reels Rental $7.50
8152 Code SEKI Grass Paramount
"Grass" is the story of an exodus into a promised land.
It is the actual picturization of the semi-annual migration of the Baktyari tribe in Persia, going through unbelievable hardships in their combat with nature to obtain grass for their flocks.
These wanderers depend on their cattle for existence. The herds need grass, without which the tribes would perish. The Chief gives the order and the entire tribe sets out on its semi-annual pilgrimage for — life.
Coming to a swirling glacial river which must be crossed, they blow up goat skins, tie them together and make rafts. The women folk, with tents, goats and a great conglomeration of belongings, climb aboard the rafts, each with two men furiously paddling at its bow.
Then the flocks and herds are dragged or driven into the water, until the current seizes them and they are swept off to swim or be sucked under. Soon the scene is one continuous procession of rafts and dots — each dot the head of some struggling or drowning animal. No more stirring sight has ever been seen by human eyes.
Through barren countries without trails, up heart-breaking mountains, the barefooted and poorly clad men, knee-deep in snow and ice, break trails for the older people and the very young.
This is not fiction, not the re-enacting of a historical event, but the actual breath-taking struggle itself.
In all the world, only three white people have ever seen this marvelous depiction of elemental life and mighty courage. Here are 50,000 natives and 500,000 cattle — struggling, fighting for their very existence.
For 48 days the fight continues, until finally reaching the top of the last mountain, the tribe see below them the fertile plains covered with life-giving grass.
The most unusual picture ever made and one that holds the audience spellbound to the very end.
3950 feet standard length — on 4 reels Rental $4.00
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