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‘TERRIBLE WEDDING’-'VAMPIRES’
The ninth installment brings desperate fight and also a big punch
pursuit of the band of scientific criminals whose activities had terrorized Paris.
The sensational finale is a tremendous fight in which gendarmes break in on the wedding of Irma Vep, feminine advisor of the robber crew, and Venenos, chief vampire, killing the entire band with the exception of Irma, who tries to avenge herself on Philip before being run to earth her¬ self and is shot at the feet of the intrepid journalist by his wife.
The final chapter of the exciting series constitutes a strange mixture of the occult and the adventurous Augus¬ tine, wife of the concierge in Guard’s apartment house, who saved the lives of Philip, his fiancee and their guests, when Irma Vep attempted their wholesale poisoning, consults a clairvoyant, who reveals to her the locale of the forthcoming wedding feast and permits a raid by the police.
The chapter is full of thrilling incident. For instance, Jane Guard, Philip’s wife, looks out of a window and is promptly lariated by one of Veneno’s men, formerly a vaquero, dragged from her home and made a prisoner. While the incidents of the play are drawn with a strong brush and tread the verge of plausibility, the acting is so excellent and the stage management so perfect that boldness of con¬ ception heightens effectiveness rather than lessening it.
The photography of “The Terrible Wedding” is quite up to standard of Gaumont pictures and in the great final re¬ volver battle it is remarkably fine. The love element in the final chapter is furnished by Augustine and Normandin, the
widow of the janitor and Guard’s Fidus Achates.
Juliet Musidora in scene from "The Terrible Wedding."
TERRIBLE WEDDING,” ninth and final instalment of Gaumont’s “The Vam¬ pires,” one of the most remarkable mystery dramas ever produced, will be released January 18 by the Mutual Film Corpora¬ tion, and in it will be found the culmination of an extraordinary series of adventures encountered by Philip Guard, reporter for the Matin, in his
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ADVENTURES OF “SHORTY”
“ Shorty ” and “ The Girl ” in another tale of border romances
HE TIGER’S DEN,” story No. 2 of the fit “Adventures of Shorty Hamilton,” pro¬ duced by Monogram Films and re■ leased by the Mutual Film Corpora¬
tion, is a thriller that bids fair to make motion picture audiences sit up and take notice.
It is very doubtful whether any of Mr. Hamilton’s ad¬ ventures has been characterized by so many extraordinary hair-breadth escapes as this one is. The atmosphere is that of the Mexican cattle ranch and the action involves that curious set of international happenings which develop out of American contact with Mexican family life.
There is a terrific gun fight in which Shorty “shoots up” a Mexican haciendado. The attractiveness of the play is in its remarkable scenic effects and the extraordniary rapidity of its action. In the course of the drama Shorty engages in a dozen gun fights, makes love like Don Juan, puts regiments of Mexicans to flight, wears chaps with consummate grace, handles a gun like a real cow puncher, and wears a sombrero with the grace and abandon of a vaquero.
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