Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

November 2 8-, 19 2 5 2573 The Goat Getter (Rayart Pictures — 5040 Feet) (Reviewed by George T. Pardy) A BRIGHT comedy drama, full of snap and ginger, guaranteed to please the average fan and sure to catch the fancy of the sporting crowd. The story starts off with the hero, an aspiring young boxer, taking a chance against the lightweight champion and getting slammed for the full count, which in its way was a refreshing departure from the regulation screen formular, where the leading man is on top of the heap from the first to last. It's a good idea, for thus sympathy is awakened for the under-dog in his grim determination to turn the tables upon his conqueror. And Billy Morris's plan of getting the champ's goat by following and persistently challenging him is quite in accordance" with real ring history, being a method frequently employed by ambitious scrappers in the past, although they do things in more dignified fashion nowadays. There's a whole lot of fun to Billy's pursuit, comedy, romance and thrills are joyously mingled and the Hollywood windup is mighty entertaining. THEME. Comedy drama. Hero, enterprising boxer, defeated by champion, but pesters latter until he fights titleholder again, wins victory and girl as well. PRODUCTION HIGHLIGHTS. Flashy action, crisp comedy relief, physical thrills, romantic interest. Big scene, battle before camera in Hollywood. EXPLOITATION ANGLES. Feature Billy Sullivan. Tell patrons this is not only a bully fight picture, but has romantic and humorous appeal. DRAWING POWER. Ought to get over well where patrons like the fast-moving exciting stuff, garnished with zippy comedy and a bit of heart interest. SUMMARY. Brisk comedy drama, prizefight sequences well handled, good comedy and romantic touches. Should get the money in average house. THE CAST Billy Morris Billy Sullivan Pie Eye Pickens Johnny Sinclair Virginia Avery Kathleen Myers Mamie Arthur Virginia Vance Lightning Bradley Eddie Diggins Carter Bond William Buckley Slug Geever Joe Moore Author, Grover Jones. Director, Albert Rogell. Photographed by Lee Garmes. SYNOPSIS. While lightweight champion, Bradley, on tour, knocks out Billy Morris in a small Western town. Billy, looking for another chance, dogs the champ from place to place, winding up at Hollywood, where Bradley is working in a picture. Billy boxes Bradley before the camera. It leaks out that the scrap is going to be a real one. Bradley fails to stop Billy and latter finally knocks him out, the sporting extras printing the story. Billy also wins Virginia Avery, star of the film. The Goat Getter (Rayart) Pictures) PRESS NOTICE ''TP HRILLS, humor and ro■*• mance are combined in "The Goat Getter," which comes to the screen of the Theatre on . An unusual film, offering glimpses of picture-making in Hollywood, a couple of prizefight sequences that brim over with sensational action, and a love story that will please sentimental patrons. In fact, there's a little of everything for everybody in this latest feature starring the handsome young athlete, Billy Sullivan. The latter appears as a boxer once defeated by the champion who follows the latter from place to place until they fight again, when Billy wins the victory, and love of a movie star into the bargain. CATCH LINES Whipped by the champ, this boxer never quit hounding him until he got another chance and defeated the titleholder. And won the love of a movie queen. A riot of fun and thrills! IttT Billy Sullivan, star of "The Goat Getter," a Rayart release. The Coast Patrol (Bud Barsky Productions — 5000 Feet) (Reviewed by George T. Pardy) A NIPPY little melodrama neatly built around the activities of the rum-running trade which should prove acceptable entertainment for patrons of the smaller houses. It isn't the sort of thing likely to appeal to critical audiences, but there's a big percentage of fans that will respond favorably to its lively barrage of thrills, good marine atmosphere and romantic lure. The wild doings of liquor smugglers are played up to such an extent in the columns of the daily papers that the average citizen is inclined to credit most anything rumored about these gentry, and sensational as "The Coast Patrol" is, nothing in the story seems beyond the bounds of reason. Speedy action rules all the way and Kenneth McDonald fills the hero role well, with Spottiswoode Aitken contributing an excellent character sketch as the old lighthouse keeper, Fay Wray charming as the girl in the case and adequate support rendered by others in the cast. The photography is classy, including many fine sea and coastal shots. THEME. Melodrama. Deals with rum-running and love of Federal agent for pretty girl whom he saves from clutches of bootlegger's leader. PRODUCTION HIGHLIGHTS. Marine atmosphere, romantic developments, thrills, scenes where village burns, and wreck of smuggler's craft on rocks in storm. EXPLOITATION ANGLES. You might get local W. C. T. U. interested in co-operation. Stress the picture's realism. Bill as exciting melo that gives the "inside" of the bootlegging game by sea. Feature McDonald, Aitken and Fay Wray. DRAWING POWER. A good card for the smaller theatres, or wherever fast melo grips 'em. SUMMARY. Breezy bootlegging melodrama, with fine marine atmosphere and romantic appeal. Not for over-particular audiences, but will suit the masses. THE CAST Dale Ripley Kenneth McDonald Beth Slocum ..Fay Wray Eric Marmont Gene Corrado Captain Slocum Spottiswoode Aitken Valerie Toske Claire DeLorez Author, W. E. Wing. Director, Irving J. Barsky. SYNOPSIS. Captain Slocum, light-tender, and daughter Beth live in Half Moon Bay lighthouse. Beth becomes interested in Er!c Marmont, clubman, who is secretly engaged in the rum-running trade. Dale Ripley, Federal agent, is attracted by Beth. The latter is persuaded to elope with Marmont on the same night when Dale's deputies capture Marmont's men. Marmont puts out to sea with Beth. Dale pursues in motor boat, arrests him and rescues the gir1. Beth realizes that she loves Dale. The Coast Patrol (Bud Barsky Prod.) PRESS NOTICE A STARTLING romance of the sea and rum-running trade, with a tender love story and exciting climax, is offered in "The Coast Patrol," billed as the star screen attraction at the Theatre on . Kenneth McDonald plays the leading role of a young Federal officer who checkmates the plans of a wealthy clubman engaged in whiskey smuggling, and incidentally rescues and wins the love of a pretty girl who has fallen into the bootlegger's power. A picture crammed with thrills, punches and beautifully photographed. Fay Wray is the fascinating heroine, with Spottiswoode Aitken as her father, and Gene Corrado and Claire Lorez playing important parts in this lively tale of adventure afloat and shore. CATCH LINES Watch for the coming of "The Coast Patrol," see how Uncle Sam's Spottiswoode Aitken, who appears in men swoop down upon the whiskev the Bud Barsky production, "The Coast smugglers; get a thrill from the big Patrol." storm scene