Movie Age (1927)

PAGE 22 MOVIE AGE ac =g=^""'; =^fc— ■ --*€• |l '» ->€=■■ J -^€== The PICTURE GUIDE Little Tips on New Pictures ■ 3g , <)C , -3f ^ J>C . Alias the Lone Wolf Distributed by Columbia. STAR: Bert Lytell. SUPPORT: Lois Wilson. TYPE: Crook melodrama. TIME: The present. LOCALE: On board ship and in New York. LENGTH: 7 reels. SYNOPSIS: While at sea Michael Lanyard prevents a gang of thieves from stealing the precious jewels owned by Eve de Montalais who plans to smug¬ gle the jewels into the United States. In New York the thieves tell Eve that Lanyard is “The Lone Wolf” and that he is after the gems. Through subter¬ fuge the crooks get the jewels. In the end, Lanyard causes the arrest of the thieves and proves to be a secret service man. Of course Eve and Michael are united. HIGHLIGHTS: Clashing of wits be¬ tween the thieves and Lanyard, Lanyard proves to be a secret service man, the recovery of the gems and the capture of the crooks. The Cruise of the Hellion Distributed by Rayart. STAR: Donald Keith. SUPPORT: Edna Murphy. TYPE: Melodrama of the sea. TIME: The present. LOCALE: Aboard the Hellion. LENGTH: 6 reels. SYNOPSIS: When Jack Harlan an¬ nounces his engagement to a chorus girl his wealthy father arranges for him to go aboard his ship the Hellion, start¬ ing out with a cargo of gold. Aboard the Hellion Jack sees Diana, niece of Judd, the skipper, whom he had met pre¬ viously. They become friends. Kilroy, the villainous first mate,^ gets Judd drunk, plotting to get the cargo of gold. Judd fights with Jack, and a gun over which the two are fighting is fired. At the same time Kilroy shoots Judd, giving the impression that Jack had committed the murder. Diana, Jack and a friendly sailor fight the mutinous crew, — throw the cargo of gold over¬ board and swim safely to the shore of an island. Kilroy and Reid, his right hand man, follow but are captured by a group of pearl hunters headed by a gunboat officer. Returning to the ves¬ sel, Jack goes down to the bottom of the sea in a diving suit to recover the chest of gold. He is followed by Reid, sim¬ ilarly attired. The two fight beneath the water, Jack winning. Reid, dying, reveals Kilroys’s duplicity, following which Kilroy confesses to the shooting of Judd and leaps overboard. Jack and Diana are united, and Jack’s father is satisfied with his plan to ship the boy away to keep him from marrying the chorus girl. HIGHLIGHTS: The fight with Judd, the struggle at the bottom of the sea, the continuous series of melodramatic incidents. Hook and Ladder No. 9 Distributed by F B O STARS: Cornelius Keefe, Edward Hearn. SUPPORT: Dione Ellis. TYPE: Fire-fighter’s drama. TIME: The present. LOCALE: An American city. LENGTH: 6 reels. SYNOPSIS: Johnny Graham, a fire¬ man, falls in love with Mary Smith, sweetheart of Dan Duffy, Graham’s best friend, also a fireman. Mary accepts the proposal of Graham, creating bitter enmity between the two men. Mary and Johnny are married two years, but Duffy is still a silent, bitter fireman. Fire breaks out in the apartment in which Johnny and Mary live. Duffy dies when he and Johnny rescue Mary and the baby. With his dying words, Dan forgives the couple, and Mary prays to God to make her baby as good a man as Dan Duffy. HIGHLIGHTS: The rescue, the end¬ ing. — Rose of the Golden West Distributed by First National. STAR: Mary Astor. SUPPORT: Gilbert Roland. TYPE: Historic romance. TIME: 1846. LOCALE: California. LENGTH: 7 reels. SYNOPSIS: Juan is prevented from eloping with Elena, who is in a convent, because he is commissioned to kill Gen¬ eral Vallero, dictator of the empire of California who is suspected of plotting to sell out to Rusia. Vallero, unknown to the two lovers, is Elena’s father. He takes her from the convent, posing as her dead father’s friend. When the coach carrying the two is jolted at break-neck speed toward a cliff, Elena and her father are saved by the timely arrival of Juan, who does not discover that the man he saved is Vallero and does not know that Elena is in the coach. When Juan attempts to carry out his mission he is captured by soldiers and sentenced to be shot. Elena maneuvers a ruse which brings U. S. marines who take possession. Juan is saved and he and Elena are reunited. HIGHLIGHTS: Juan rescues Vallero and Elena, the landing of the marines. A Man’s Past Distributed by Universal. STAR: Conrad Veidt. SUPPORT: Barbara Bedford. TYPE: Heavy drama. TIME: The present. LOCALE: France. LENGTH: 6 reels. SYNOPSIS: Convicted of putting to death patients suffering intensely from incurable diseases, a doctor is placed in a French prison under a brutal warden. In an emergency he saves the warden’s life, who fails to keep his promise to free the physician who escapes. He comes to the rescue of his life-long friend, who is going blind and poses in his stead. He falls in love with his friend’s sister. In the end the doctor receives a pardon, is restored to rank in the medical profession and is free to marry the woman he loves. HIGHLIGHTS: Acting of Conrad Veidt. Sally in Our Alley Distributed by Columbia. STAR: Shirley Mason. SUPPORT: Richard Arlen. TYPE: Romance of the tenements. TIME: The present. LOCALE: An American city. LENGTH: 7 reels. SYNOPSIS: Sally Williams, a girl of the tenements, arrives home from deliv¬ ering a customer’s washing to find her mother dead. She is adopted by three neighbors, a Scotchman, an Italian and a Jew. She is in love with Jimmie Adams, a young plumber. A wealthy aunt takes Sally away from her happy surroundings amidst the three foster parents. When the two men who had been fathers to Sally, and Jimmie at¬ tend a dinner at the wealthy aunt’s home, they make a scene by their awk¬ ward manners. Sally’s aunt tells Jim¬ mie that Sally loves a young man of wealth and Jimm,ie decides to sail for China. Sally becoming infuriated with her aunt, arrives at the pier with her three foster parents just as the ship sails away, but Jimmie steps from behind a building, saying he could not go, and then there is the happy ending with Sal¬ ly in her lover’s arms. HIGHLIGHTS: The mingling of com¬ edy and pathos, the dinner scene.