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Laurence Reid Reviews The New Photoplays
It's Got That Kick
IT took four million dollars and three years to m; this "Hell's Angels." With such a bally-l abroad one couldn't blame the public for expect) something worth while.
It doesn't fail. It impresses one as being about t most stupendous thing of its kind ever filmed. W emphasis placed upon its air shots I looked for sloughing-ofF of the story.
True it's just a poor prop to carry the thrills w' Ben Lyon, as the younger brother, eager for life a endowed with a dash of yellow, while James Hall is ' upright youth who humanizes his r6le.
But after all is said and done, the picture com through with its sky scenes. We may have' beco satiated with so-called "epics of the air," but this t them all — particularly in the shots of the Zeppeli There's your "Hell's Angels" — A picture well wor seeing.
Old— But a Natural
ONE might suspect that Constance Benne wealthy young woman of the world an glamorous heart-breaker of two continents would not be entirely comfortable portrayin the poverty-stricken, man-persecuted heroine that hokum melodrama, "Common Clay." Bui the suspicion would be only half correct. Foii after a bit of floundering in the early sequence" Constance succeeds nicely in putting herself in character. Her hesitation, however, is sufficient to permit Lew Ayres to steal first honors.
The picture is somewhat changed from the earlier screen and stage versions by the plastic surgery of the Hollywood scalpels, but the general contour is preserved.
The plot, you'll remember is about the unprotected working girl pursued — and caught — by divers villains. There's a child, a lover and a prosecuting attorney who doesn't surprise us a bit when he is exposed as Connie's unwed daddy.
Death Takes No Holidays
AVERY gallant drama, ably enacted by Richard Barthelmess, and an earnest, talented group of juveniles, "The Dawn Patrol" soars to a new altitude record for aviation photoplays. No women in the cast.
The characters are British fliers, hurried to certain death from inadequate aviation schools, and sent to meet destruction in ships all unfit to fly.
If the film has demerits they lie in the love of Hollywood for exaggeration. There is a deal of drinking, for instance. Not that the birdmen of battle flew inter the cannon's mouth without a tilt with Bacchus.
But for all this, the drama is so tense, its characters so pitifully brave, that the production leaves its indelible impression upon the heart of the beholder. Mr. Barthelmess is superb. But fine as is his portrayal, he must share the ample honors with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Neil Hamilton, and the other youths in__ the cast.
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