Motion picture news booking guide and studio directory (Oct 1927)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture news booking guide and studio directory
Date:
Oct 1927
Publisher:
New York : Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion picture news booking guide and studio directory (Oct 1927)
Leaf #:
00032
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Year Book, and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Motion Picture News was the leading film industry trade journal during the 1920s. Founded in 1908 as a counterweight to the dominant Moving Picture World, the News was the voice for the independent, non-Trust, producers. Later Motion Picture News expanded its coverage to the entire industry, supporting the independent exhibitor with objective film reviews, summaries of programs at theatres across the nation, activities of regional exchanges in the cities with regional exchanges, and excellent coverage of the coming of sound and screenings and stage shots at the major New York City theatres. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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30 MOTION PICTURE NEWS HIGH HAT. Produced by Robert Kane. Distributed by First National. Released, March 13 1927 With Ben Lyon. Mary Brian, Sam Hardy and Lucien Prival. Director, James A. Creelman. ' Scenarists, Jas. A. Creelman and Melville Baker. Cameraman, Wm. Schurr. Length, 6,190 feet. Theme: Comedy-drama of an extra and his girl, a co-worker in one of the Hollywood studios Fellow extra plays false and the girl is implicated in a theft. Hero recovers the stolen property' his girl's attention and the good graces of the studio lords. References: Reviewed issue May 13, 1927, page 1851. Advertising: Page 1239, Apr. 8, 1927. Exploitation: Page 2447, June 24, 1927. HILLS OF PERIL. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Corp. Released, May i, 1927. Star Buck Jones. Director, Lambert Hillyer. Scenarist, Jack Jungmeyer. Cameraman Reginald Lyons. Length, 4,943 feet. Theme: Western Melodrama featuring the clean-up of a band of bootlegging villains. References: Reviewed issue May 13, 1927, page 1850. Advertising: Page 1239, Apr. 8, 1927. Exploitation: Page 2447, June 24, 1927. HIS DOG-. Produced by De Mille Pictures Corp. Distributed by Pathe. Released, July 25, 1927. With Joseph Schildkraut, Julia Faye, Robert Edeson and Sally Rand. Director, Karl Brown. Adaptation and continuity, Olga Printzlau. Cameraman, Fred Westerberg. Length, 6,788 feet! Theme: Human interest drama. Based on Albert Payson Terhune's story. Deals with the regeneration of social outcast through the love and devotion of his dog. References: Reviewed issue Oct. 28, 1927, page 1345. HIS FIRST FLAME. Produced by Mack Sennett. Distributed by Pathe. Released, May 8, 1927. Starring Harry Langdon with Ruth Hiatt and Natalie Kingston. Director. Harry Edwards. ' Scenarists, Arthur Ripley and Frank Capra. Cameramen, Wm. Williams and Ernie Crockett. Length 4,700 feet. Theme: Comedy of boobish youth whose sweetheart is stoleai away from him by his fire chief uncle. But he wins her back. References: Reviewed issue May 20, 1927, page 3 966. Advertising: One page insert, Mar. 27, 1926; one page insert, Apr. 22, 1927. HORSESHOES. Produced by Monty Banks Enterprises. Distributed by Pathe. Released, April 17, 1927. Starring Monty Banks with Ernie Wood, Henry Barrows and Jean Arthur. Director, Clyde Bruckman. Scenarists, Monty Banks and Charles Horan. Cameraman, James Diamond Length, 5,668 feet. Theme: Fresh from law school, hero meets heroine, whom he aids in contesting a will with his resultant victory due to the hero's unswerving faith in the good-luck magnet — the horse shoe. References: Reviewed issue April 15, 1927, page 1373. Advertising: Two page insert, Apr. 8; one page insert, May 6, 1927. HULA. Produced and distributed by Paramount. Released, August 27, 1927. Starring Clara Bow with Clive Brook. Director, Victor Fleming. Adaptor, Doris Anderson. Scenarist, Ethel Doherty. Cameraman, Wm. Marshall. Length, 5,862 feet. Theme: Romantic drama with triangle tendencies. Heroine falls in love with married man and wins him after complications are eliminated. References: Revewed issue Sept. 16, 1927, page 859. Advertising: Insert, May 13; insert, May 27; 80, July 15; 418, Aug. 12, 1927. —I— INTERFERIN' GENT, THE. Produced by Action Pictures, Inc. Distributed by Pathe. Released, August 21, 1927. Star, Buffalo Bill, Jr. Director, Richard Thorpe. Scenarist, Betty Burbridge. Cameraman, Ray Ries. Length, 4,864 feet. Theme: Western drama. Youthful cowman poses as brother to girl owner of ranch because he sees her in difficulties. He foils man who would defraud her of her ranch, and real brother backs him up for hi* chivalry. He wins the girl's good graces and hand. References: Reviewed issue Sept. 9, 1927, page 785. IN THE FIRST DEGREE. Produced and distributed by Sterling Pictures Corp. Released, April 15, 1927. With Alice Calhoun, Bryant Washburn, Trilby Clark, Gareth Hughes and Gayne Whitman. Director, Phil Rosen. Scenarist, Frances Guihan. Cameraman, Herbert Kirkpatrick. Length, 5,428 feet. Theme: Drama based on wrongful conviction of man through circumstantial evidence. Secretary to wealthy man, in love with employer's daughter, has a rival in the man's powerful associate. The man is murdered and secretary unjustly convicted. He is finally cleared when real murderer confesses. References: Advertising: Page 2396, Dec. 25, 1926. IRISH HEARTS. Produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Released, May 21, 1927. Starring May McAvoy with Jason Robards, Warner Richmond and Kathleen Key. Director, Byron Haskin. Scenarist, Graham Baker. Cameraman, Virgil Miller. Length, 5,597 feet. Theme: Comedy-melodrama of colleen in love with wastrel who jilts her; she finds happiness with man more worthy of her love. References: Reviewed issue Juno 10, 1927, page 2294. Advertising: Pages 1982, May lj 2630, June 12; 6, July 3; 185, July 17; 634, Aug. 21; 1134, Sept. 25; 1336, Oct. 9; insert, Oct. 23; 1810, Nov. 13, 1920; 7, Jan. 7; insert, Feb. 11; 2050, May 27; 2114, June 3, 1927. IS THAT NICE? Produced and distributed by Film Booking Offices. Released, March 6, 1927. Star, George O'Hara. Director, Del Andrews. Length, 4,501 feet. Theme: Newspaper comedy-drama. Burlesque on newspapers and political controversies. Action revolves around young reporter's efforts to recover proof-sheets of a libelous story he has written about the town's political boss. References: Advertising: Page 439, Feb. 11, 1927.