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THE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEWS.
November 18, 1922.
A British Film for
GRAHAM WILCOX
Che Daily Express
November 11, 1922. FIRST BRITISH SUPER-FILM.
New Standard set up by ‘‘ Flames of Passion.”’
(* Daily Express "’ Cinema Correspondeut.)
“Tt is an event in national history when a British film can challenge the world.
“The production is modelled on D. W. Griffith lines, but it improves on the master at several points.
“© £50,000 PRODUCTION,
“2... and has spent £50,000 on it, about nine times the cost of the average British six-reel film, .. . A film ‘mosaic’ that reaches an extra ordinary pitch of human poignancy.”
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Che Daily Mail
November 11, 1922.
‘“FLAMES OF PASSION.”’ Best British Film. (By the Film Critic.)
‘** Flames of Passion,’ the most ambitious and possibly the most successful film to be made in this country, was shown at the New Oxford Theatre last night, and will continue there for a very long period if it be permitted to run until it ceases to be popular.
“To sav that it cost £50,000 to produce, and took six months in the making, is not necessarily a guarantee of excellence. This may be said, however, that it is complete in detail as it is in rich, dramatic effect. . a picture which gives the first really significant fillip to British films, and one which is certain to achieve an international reputation,”
Che Daily Mail
November 13, 1922.
A BRITISH TRIUMPH. (By the Film Critic.)
‘** Flames of Passion,’’ which started at the New Oxford Theatre, W., last Friday night, has shown that an ungrudging and effective expenditure is often the wisest policy in the end, and has proved to the somewhat sceptica] American producers that our technical
ability can be quite equal to their own.”