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October 30, 1926
EXHIBITORS HERALD
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-Clarence Brown
Art and Box Office Triumph in Vidor’s Story of America’s Role in the War
JOHN GILBERT, Karl Dane and Tom 'J O’Brien appear in the above group. They are the three important men in the roles of “The Big Parade,” Metro film.
r^L A R E N C E BROWN, above, selects a Metro film as his preference as a director. Left is a scene from “The Big Parade.”
The* Picture Is Life Says the Director of “Kiki” and “Eagle”
‘‘The Big Parade ” Is My Choice
directed comes nearest to satisfying ture would you rather have directed?’ you perfectly?’
I have just finished it. It is called “A Regular Scout,” starring Fred Thomson. It is sponsored by The Boy Scouts of America. It is an epic of boyhood, the rollicking spirit of youtfi. The gang instinct which is a part of boyhood turned for good. It thrills me in anticipation to see just how the kids are going to take it. I know they are all going to shout with delight at their adventure, at their stunts, the rout of the villains by the Boy Scouts. I want them to take their elders to the theatre and tell them : “There — that’s us! That’s ourselves. That’s what we do and that’s what we want to do. Now, do you understand us better?”
AMOTION picture can be a great boxoffice success and still be a triumph artistically, views by screen cogniscenti to the contrary notwithstanding.
“The Big Parade” is my choice in answering the question, “Which pic
I would have liked to have directed “The Big Parade” because I think it is the best picture I have ever seen.
Many a director hails some picture as his ideal that won no triumph at the boxoffice. The boxoffice, in this case, backs the picture.
And why shouldn’t it? After all, pictures are made for the public —
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and if they don’t please the public, for some reason or other, they fall short of their mark. But I was not thinking of its boxoffice success in the case of “The Big Parade.” I sat through it enthralled ; I forgot there was such a thing as a boxoffice — a public— even a moving picture. Its greatness is such that it throws you right into the heart of France. It is life — that’s all.
The story of “A Regular Scout” was written by Buckleigh Fritz Oxford, and was directed by David Kirkland, who also prepared the continuity.
The story concerns a cowboy who befriends and becomes attached to a troup of boy scouts who through a series of incidents save the cowboy and his sweetheart from the villain. One outstanding scene shows Silver King, Thomson’s remarkable horse saving a boy scout from death when he fails off a cliff onto a ledge. The work of the Boy Scouts is remarkable throughout the picture.