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Sunday, June 26, 1921
DAILY
17
Familiar Story Material and Obvious Development Detract
Grace Darmond in
"THE BEAUTIFUL GAMBLER"
Universal
DIRECTOR William Worthington
AUTHOR Peter B. Kyne
SCENARIO BY Hope Loring
CAMERAMAN George Barnes
AS A WHOLE Action good if you don't mind
it a bit rough ; will go where they like bar-room westerns
STORY All hackneyed situations without an
original twist ; you always know what will happen next DIRECTION Piles the fights on thick; otherwise fair
PHOTOGRAPHY All right
LIGHTINGS Adequate
CAMERA WORK Average
STAR Photographs well and is pleasing to look
at ; has a sympathetic part
SUPPORT Jack Mower leading man, Harry
Van Meter a typical villain; others adequate
EXTERIORS Not many
INTERIORS Satisfactory
DETAIL Appears correct
CHARACTER OF STORY. . . .Girl forced to marry mortgage holder later finds happiness with reformed rich man
LENGTH OF PRODUCTION 4.458 feet
Perhaps Peter B. Kyne's story made good reading matter, but it doesn't reproduce as very good entertainment for the screen. It will go all right with those who like the typical western bar-room sort of story
with roulette wheels, the proprietor who chews on a cigar, and the frequent fist fights incidental to the routine of such establishments. But folks who like their entertainment in less boisterous atmosphere won't be likely to favor "The Beautiful Gambler."
The story is a very old formula and develops towards its climax in such obvious fashion that you have nothing to expect. The spectator is always a lap ahead of the action. The minute the gambling hall owner proposes to Molly you know he holds the mortgage on her father's home. And then the instant the hero appears on the scene you know he'll rescue Molly from her "life of bondage," and that somehow or other the unwelcome husband will exit.
Molly Hanlon marries Lee Kirk, owner of a western gambling house, to save her father's home. The father commits suicide and Molly takes up her new life, obeying Kirk, wearing the clothes he buys for her and assisting at the roulette wheel. Miles Rand, a rich fellow whose father had turned him out because of his dissipation, 'comes to Kirk's place. He observes that Molly is unhappy and a mutual friendship between them is formed. Kirk orders his man Devlin to get back a roH which Rand won at the roulette wheel and when Devlin fails Kirk throws him out. Devlin sets the place on fire and then denounces Kirk. Two years pass and Molly marries Rand, believing Kirk dead. But he appears and there's a fight between Rand and Kirk, during which Kirk is killed by a shot. Rand is accused but at the last minute Devlin confesses to having fired the shot through the window. Rand's father forgives him.
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