The Moving picture world (February 1920-March 1920)

February 14, 1920 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1117 ardent, but misguided young dreamers that allow themselves to be influenced by the preaching of the extremists that claim to work for the liberation of mankind and whose sole object is to plunder and kill. Lloyd Hughes acts the part of John King, the young .American fresh from college, who becomes the tool of the Bolsheviki. He has the proper appearance and necessary* earnestness and wins sympathy for the character all through the picture. Barbara Castleton is excellent as May Western. Claire DuBrey as Sophia Guerni, Jack Richardson as Boris Blotchi and Walt Whitman as Doctor King have the other important characters. Cast. John King Lloyd Hughes May Weston Barbara Castleton Sophia Guerni Claire DuBrey Boris Blotchi Jack Richardson Doctor King Walt Whitman Michael Regan Lew Morrison Andrew Felton Gordon Mullen Story by Donn Byrne. Scenario by C. Gardner Sullivan. Directed by Fred Niblo. Length Five Reels. The Story. "Dangerous Hours" applies to the time spent in the company of present day revolutionists. John King, whose father has made every sacrifice to send him through college, does not return home after graduation, but gets mixed up with a group of "reds," who want him for their leader on account of his American birth and his fearless spirit. Taking part in a strike riot instigated by the foreign agitators led by Boris Blotchi and Sophia Guerni, the misguided young man finds himself arrested, tried and sent to prison. When his term is up King goes back to his Bolshevik friends, and Sophia Guerni pretends to be deeply in love with him for the way he has suffered for the cause. Awaking at last to his duty to his father. King goes home and finds that the aged man has been almost heartbroken at his long absence. May Weston, the sweetheart of his boyhood, is also overjoyed to see him, but John's head is too full of his mission to liberate mankind to let his heart advise him. His pride also stands in his way. Miss Weston has been left a properous shipyard by her father and is now at the head of the business. John is determined to go back to the city and follow up his mission, and old Doctor King lets his son leave without telling him that he is almost penniless. Once back with Sophia and her comrades, John finds that they are planning to go to the town he has just left and make trouble for Miss Weston. The men in her shipyard have started an honest strike which they expect to settle by peaceful methods, but the Guerni-Blotchi group Intends to stir the workers up to riot and blood shed. The scheme is carried out. John goes along, but keeps away from his father and May Weston, until sent to treat with his old playmate. So blinded is John King that he does not see how greatly In the wrong he, is until he finds himself in the center of the mob which has broken down the gate of the shipyard and wrecked the ofllce with a bomb. The sight of May lying stunned and bleeding in the ruins brings John to his senses. He turns upon his former friends and is himself badly wounded in helping to drive them away from the yard. When he recovers sufficiently to go to Miss Weston and acknowledge his terrible error, he finds her well on the road to recovery and only too happy to forgive him. The old sweethearts come to the right understanding. Pro-am and Exploitation Catchllnent A Vital Picture That Has a Message for AH. Gripping Photoplay Depicting the World as It Is Today. Are You Living in "Dangerous Hours?" — See the Strikes — Fires — Crimes of the Red Guard — Secret Work of "The Committee of Terror" — All in This Thrilling Drama. Spectacular Drama Showing the Evils in the Working of the "Reds." — A Compelling Picture of the Day. Rxploitntion Angles: Work on the chief theme and advertise largely. Tell that this deals with the chief problem of the day, the traducing of real labor through Bolshevist interference. In small towns try to get the local editor and the Loyal Legion excited. They can help powerfully to put this story over. Get after all similar organizations. Direct your advertising to "real laborers" and draw a strong line between laborers and agitators. "Sand" WilHam S. Hart and His Famous Pinto Pony Featured in Excellent Western Drama Released by Famous Players. Reviewed by M, A. Malaney. BILL HART is back in a true-to-life western role in "Sand," which is announced as the first of the New Hart series that the rugged actor is depending entirely upon his own efiforts to "put over." And "Sand" has sand. It is a typical Hart picture, only somewhat iliiiiiiriiiiHiiiii iiiiiiiiimiKiiuiMiiiiiiiiiiirtiiiiiiiin Miiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiillitllimilllliniin A Study in Sand Presented by Bill Hart in his first William S. Hart production for Artcraft, "Sand." iiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiirtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiitiiiinjinn better than those he has been making for the last year or so. It shows careful attention to everything, a novel plot and enough thrills to make it please most everybody. The Pinto pony shares honors with the star. In one scene Hart and the horse leap from a cliff into a river and the only criticism of this is that the scene is altogether too short. The story has been worked out so that the audience is given an idea of the finish, but it brings a certain amount of sympathy to the hero. Particular mention should be made of Mary Thurman, who is the leading woman. She is creeping into the class of Mack Sennet graduates who have made good as first class leading women or stars. The locations chosen for this picture are not very original, but that fact does not deter from its value as entertainment. There are a few river scenes that will command the admiration of everybody. The only difference in the character portrayed by the star in this picture, as compared to any of his previous western dramas, is that he is a hero throughout, and not a bandit or bad man. Cast. Dan Kurrie William S. Hart Margaret Young Mary Thurman Joseph Garber G. Raymond Nye Joseph Kirkwood Patricia Palmer Pete Beckett William Patton Jim Kirkwood Lon Poft Pop Young Hugh Sackson Directed by Lambert Hillyer. Length, 4,800 feet. The Story. "Sand" opens with Dan Kurrie on the way to Candor to replace a station agent who has grown old in the service of the railroad. The train stops at a small station where a railway hold-up occurred and Kurrie is told the bandits escaped into the river and then all trace was lost of them. Arriving at Candor, Dan Kurrie finds he is to replace Pop Young, father of his sweetheart. He declines the job, but Pop assures him he has another position, so Kurrie goes to work. Pop's new job is in the general store of Joseph Garber, who also is a stockholder in the railroad, and who aspires to marry Young's daughter. Finding Kurrie in his way, he manages to have him fired. Kurrie immediately gets a job on a ranch, where he worked years ago, and at the same time gets his old Pinto pony back. In a talk with a pal, Kurrie mentions his pleasure at receiving the pony back. Part of this conversation is overheard by his sweetheart, Margaret Young, and she believes he is talking about a girl on the ranch. Believing Kurrie false, she renounces him and decides to marry Garber. Kurrie is crushed, but out on the range he tries to forget her. One day while riding near the railroad he is fired upon by a Mexican. He returns the fire, hits his man, who confesses to a plot to hold up a train which is nearing. Here comes a series of thrilling episodes, fast riding and a leap from a cliff to the river. Kurrie arrives on the scene as the hold-up is going on, fires at them in the rear and the gang is captured, with the aid of the surprised trainmen. Pulling oft the masks of the bandits, the leader is discovered to be Garber — and at the same time Margaret Young, who was on the train running away from Garber, appears. Garber is unmasked as the leader of the gang which has been committing all the hold-ups. Dan and Margaret come to the right understanding. Program and Exploitation Catehlinesi Bill Hart's Famous Pinto Pony Is Back In Moving Pictures. See Him in "Sand." Have you "Sand" Enough to Stow Away and Forget the Girl You Love After She Gives Her.self to Another? See Wm. S. Hart in "Sand." "Sand" Has Plenty of Sand — and "Pep" Too. And It Has Bill Hart. Exploitation Angles: Make the usual drive on Hart, but give plenty of space to the fact that in this picture his famous Pinto pony makes his reappearance after an absence of nearly two years. You can get a lot out of this where the horse is remembered. Make a cut-out, then paint all except the lettering with glue and dust with fine sand. "Daredevil Jack" Jack Dempsey Makes Good in Fifteen Episode Serial Produced by Brunton.. Distributed by Pathe. Reviewed by Margaret MacDonald. TWO of the fifteen episodes of "Daredevil Jack" exhibited to the press are sufficient assurance that this serial produced by Robert Brunton