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 #:
00047
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema, Year Book, and Hollywood Studio System
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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BOOKING GUIDE 45 TWELVE MILES OUT. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released, July 9, 1927. Starring John Gilbert with Joan Crawford and Ernest Torrence. Director, Jack Conway. Scenarist, A. P. Younger. Cameraman, Ira Morgan. Length, 7,899 feet. Theme: Melodrama of rum-runners and hi-jackers who are deadly enemies over their business and their love affairs. Hero comes clean when he meets right girl. References: Reviewed issue Aug. 5, 1927, page 398. Advertising: Front cover, also 2324, June 17; front cover, June 24; insert, July 8; insert. July 29; front cover, also insert. Aug, 5, 1927. TWO GUN OF THE TUMBLEWEED. Produced by Leo Maloney Prod. Distributed by Pathe. Released, July 17, 1927. Star and director, Leo Maloney. Scenarist, Ford I. Beebe. Cameraman, Ben White. Length, 5,670 feet. Theme: Western drama. Ranch foreman, whose actions are misinterpreted by girl boss, saves her from evil advances of gunman who desires her ranch. 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Society girl, who has led sheltered life, is enticed aboard steamship on the eve of her wedding, by man she had met in France and trusted. She is rescued from him by human monster. Forced to kill to protect herself, she returns home with a better understanding of the other side of life and its problems. References: Reviewed issue July 1, 1927, page 2566. Advertising: Pages 1898-99, May 20; 2034-36, May 27; 2248-49, June 10, 1927. VENUS OF VENICE. Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Distributed by First National. Released, March 20, 1927. Starring Constance Talmadge with Antonio Moreno. Director, Marshall Neilan. Scenarist, Wallace Smith. Cameraman, Geo. Barnes. Length, 6,324 feet. Theme: Comedy-drama. Story of a hoydenish gypsy of the waterways whose capacity for thievery and mischief is seemingly limitless. The girl is under the domination of a crook. An American artist succeeds in reforming her. References: Reviewed issue May 13, 1927, page 1849. Advertising: Insert, Mar. 25; 1428, Apr. 22; 1650, May 6; 1772, May 13; 2048, May 27, 1927. Newspaper Displays: Page 2087, May 27, 1927. — W— WEDDING BILLS. Produced and distributed by Paramount. Released, May 7, 1927. Star, Raymond Griffith. Director, Erie Kenton. Scenarists, Grover Jones, Keene Thompson, Lloyd Corrigan. Cameraman, Wm, Marshall. Length, 5,869 feet. Theme: Farce-comedy of young man who has necklace (accepted on approval) stolen from him by pigeon. He succeeds in capturing the bird and jewels. References: Reviewed issue July 22, 1927, page 223. Advertising: Page 1300, Apr. 15, 1927. WESTERN COURAGE. Produced by Ben Wilson. Distributed by Rayart Pictures Corp. Released, April, 1927. Star, Dick Hatton. Director, Ben Wilson. Scenarist, Leslie Curtis. Cameraman, Eddie Linden. Length, 4,319 feet. Theme: Western melodrama. Girl becomes infatuated with man, who plans to defraud her. She is ignorant of his real intention, but the man who really loves her, after much conflict with band of crooks, shows up the villain in his true colors. WESTERN ROVER. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Corp. Released, June 5, 1927. Starring Art Acord with Ena Gregory and Charles Avery. Director, Albert Rogell. Scenarist, George Hively. Cameraman, Edwin Linden. Length. 4,404 feet. Theme: Western melodrama. Ranch owner's son tires of ranch life and becomes circus performer. The circus goes broke and he is forced to work on ranch, which proves to be his father's. How he discovers crooks stealing cattle and saves father from ruin forms basis of action. WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW. Produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Released, March 12, 1927. Starring Patsy Ruth Miller with Ian Keith and Mickey McBan. Director, Charles F. Reisner. Scenarist, Lois Jackson. Cameraman, David Abel. Length, 6,281 feet. Theme: Household of three orphans disintegrates when breadwinner goes to prison on untrue charge of reckless driving, and remaining two to orphanage from which they are rescued by one of the trustes who adopts them and finally wins the elder of the two, a girl. References: Reviewed issue June 24. 1927, page 2455. Advertising: Pages 1983, May 1; 2630, June 12; 6, July 3; 185, July 17; 634, Aug. 21; 1134, Sept. 25; 1336, Oct. 9; insert, Oct. 23; 1810, Nov. 13, 1926; 7, Jan. 7; insert, Feb. 11; 2050, May 27; 2114, June 3, 1927.