Motion Picture News (Jan-Feb 1922)

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486 Motion Picture News JIN IRVIN V. WILL/IT Production HAS EVERYTHING A SHOWMAN REQUIRES play this and you will pack THEM IN— } t ■ 5-^r High tension in Irvin V. Willat’s mystery drama is one of its many excellent characteristics. The box-office results should be splendid. ^ — MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Mystery melodrama teeming with suspense. If they like substantial melodrama, enjoy being mystified, let “Fifty Candles” light your theatre entrance in incandescents; it is bound to ignite favorable comment. —MOTION PICTURE NEWS. This is an intensely interesting murder mystery, with sufficient exploitation angles to make it a fine box-office attraction. The suspense is well sustained throughout. If full advantage is taken of the many exploitation angles it can be put over big. —EXHIBITORS HERALD. Class A.* “Fifty Candles” is an exceptionally interesting mystery story. The I story itself, quite out of the ordinary, is] full of interesting incidents and well j knit. This is an excellent program feature for any theatre. —SCREEN OPINIONS. Absorbing mystery from widely read story. The final solution of the mystery is wholly unexpected but very logical. —WEEKLY FILM REVIEW.