The Moving picture world (November 1925-December 1925)

December 5, 1925 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 481 "The Unguarded Hour" — First National Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon in Emotional And Gripping Story That Should Please Fans STRIKING views of society life both in America and, supposedly, in Italy, form the backgrounds of a drama of intense interest in "The Unguarded Hour," a First National picture presenting Milton Sills with Doris Kenyon and an excellent cast. The story is one of temptation to yield to the glamor of moonlight, but the suggestion of sex is not unduly stressed and should not oflfend audiences. The plot is tense, emotional and gripping at all times, though the climax is not wholly in doubt, and the picture as a whole, embellished as it is with beautiful backgrounds, should prove a fine box office asset. Lambert Hillyer's direction is generally effective. Milton Sills and Miss Kenyon perform exceptionally well, especially the latter in a sort of flapper role. Each one of the other players earns special mention. The Reviewed by Sumner Smith opening is strong, with a scene where a father experiments with a revolver to learn if his daughter really loves a youth, on the theory that she will protect what she loves, and the plot is smoothly and dramatically Cast Andrea Milton Stils Virginia Gilbert Doris Kenyon' Bryce Gilbert Claude King Duchess Bi:inca Dolores Cassinelli Russell Van Alstyne. ....... Cornelius Keefe Gus O'Rorieli Jed Prouty Stelio Charles Beyer Annie, the maid Vivia Ogden The Butl.r J. Moy Bennett .Story by Mar^retta Tuttle. Directed hy l<aiubert Hillyer. Supervised by Earl Hudson. Length — 0,013 feet. developed. A striking scene is that of an aeroplane crash into a radio aerial tower. Excellent comedy affords relief for the tense drama, one particularly amusing instance being where the heroine fakes drowning to be saved by the hero and then saves his sister from drowning. Bryce Gilbert, business man, shows his daughter Virginia the folly of an intended elopement with a youth. She goes to Italy and meets Duke Andrea d'Arona, a young and handsome man, who is puzzled by her jazzy American ways and doubts her character. Virginia is found with a certain male flirt in her room and misunderstood until it develops that the duke's sister has been misled by the male flirt and is listening in another room. The sister kills herself and the tragedy brings the duke and the American girl to an understanding of their love. "Wages for Wives^' — William Fox Amusing Comedy and Pleasing Human Interest In Film Version of John Golden Stage Play WILLIAM FOX in "Wages for Wives" is offering an adaptation of the play, "Chicken Feed," another of the series of John Golden stage successes. Frank Borzage directed the picture with Jacqueline Logan and Creighton Hale in the leading roles. "Wages for Wives" is a comedy drama based on the idea of a new bride persuading her mother and a friend to join with her in leaving their husbands until they agree to a fifty-fifty split on their wages. The husbands rebel and decide to keep house for themselves, while the wives go to a big boarding house. Eventually, after the women have almost eaten their hearts out with longing, and a vamp has succeeded in complicating matters, reconciliations occur after the recalcitrant husbands have thoroughly sickened of their attempts to show their independence. Reviewed by C. S. Sewell The story is presented as a comedy, Director Borzage having steered along a middle course. There has been no attempt at preachment or propaganda and on the other Cast Nell Bradley Jacqueline Logman Danny Kester Creighton Hale Hug;hle Logan Earle Fox Liuella Logan Zasu Pitts Jim Bailey Claude Gllliugwater Chester Logan David Butler Annie Bailey ...Margaret Seddon Carol Bixby Margaret Livingston Mr. Tevls ..Dan Mason Based on play by Guy Bolton. Scenario by Kenneth B. Clarke. Directed by FVank Borzage. Le'vgth— 4;.(iOO feet. hand while the humor is along broad comedy lines it is not really farce comedy, although some of the situations border on farce. Mr. Borzage, who has proven very successful as a human-interest director, has effectively played up this angle and also capitalized on the humorous possibilities of the situations. "Wages for Wives" reaches the screen as an easy-moving and amusing picture that should prove pleasing to the majority of patrons. Jacqueline Logan is pretty as usual and charming both as the shrinking sweetheart and rebellious wife, and Creighton Hale is adequate opposite. David Butler furnishes a number of laughs as a wise-cracking chap who kids his married friends. Dan Mason is good in the character role of the village cupid, while Earle Foxe and ZaSu Pitts as one couple and Claude Gillingwater and Margaret Seddon as the others are excellent. "The Wyoming Wildcat'' — Film Booking Offices Familiar Appeal of a Western With Added Human Interest in Second Tom Tyler Film As the second of the series of Westerns in which he is being starred by F. B. O., Tom Tyler is presented in "The Wyoming Wildcat," which, while containing the familiar punch situations of this type of entertainment has considerably more than the usual amount of heart appeal. This is introduced in the person of a little orphan adopted and cruelly treated by the miserly villain who with his scapegrace son seeks by fair and foul means to gain control of a ranch belonging to a girl. Tom appears as the hero who is always on hard to thwart the villainy and wins the girl's love. Tom's performance confirms the favorable Reviewed by C. S. Sewell impression produced during his first picture. He has a likeable personality and genial smile and is an expert horseman. He subdues a "man-killing" broncho and does Caat Phil Stone Tom Tyler Blendy Betts Billy Bennett JeR Kopp G. Clayton Rudy Kopp E, Laidlaw Isabel Hastingrs Virginia Southern Dan Slade Al Hueaton Cyclopa Tom Delmai Directed by Bob DeLacey. Length— 5,156 feet. plenty of fine riding and hard fighting. There is a real punch in the scene where he jumps with his horse from a cliff into the water to rescue the heroine. Virginia Southern is attractive and capable in this role, and little Frankie Darro gives a fine performance as the kid. The remaining roles are all satisfactorily handled. "The Wyoming Wildcat" should prove a satisfactory attraction where "westerns" are liked for it contains a good proportion of all of the elements which have proven their popularity in pictures of this kind, plus the appeal of the "kiddie" angle, which will make it especially alluring to the children.