The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

Record Details:

Title:
The Moving Picture Weekly
Date:
1920-1921
Author:
Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Publisher:
New York, The Moving Picture Weekly
Volume:
The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)
Leaf #:
0001133
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY— ■ 17 dn Officer and a. GenHeman THAT pleasing poise of Clyde Fillmore, as Captain Rex Strong in "The Devil's Passkey," wins you to him from the very first — and yet Captain Strong is really the only "villain" in the drama. The character, as played by Fillmore, is just another indication of that inimitable Von Stroheim touch that makes his characters human — and therefore liked by you, be their humanness evidenced in human weakness or in strength. Debonair, breezy, blase — taking the European sophistication as a matter of course, Fillmore is the healthy young American officer to the very life. Women, he knows, love him for his money. He can have any of them for a price. He has every reason to believe that the wife of the American playwright is "just another woman." Dramatically, he learns otherwise. Subtly, yet powerfully and with fine shading he becomes the gentleman again, building step on step until the "villain" virtually becomes the "hero." Things like this are rare, but the performance of Fillmore is only one of a hundred reasons why you, too, will realize the tremendous drawing power of this real-life drama. When will you present "The Devil's Passkey?" Clyde Fillmore Carl Laemmle MASTER PICTURE DEVILS MSSKEY universaij-xJewel production de luxe