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ALL THE “TRUTH” ABOUT PICTURES 225
“BUSTER”— Class C
(Adapted from story of same name)
Story: — Experience of Westerner Taming Young Woman from East
VALUE
Photography — Good — Not credited. TYPE OF PICTURE — Ordinary. Moral Standard — Average.
Story — Average — Comedy-drama — Family.
Star — Average — Dustin Farnum.
Author — Average — William Patterson White. Direction — Average — Colin Campbell. Adaptation — Average — Jack Strumwasser. Technique — Average.
Spiritual Influence — Neutral.
CAST
Bill Coryell
Charlotte Rowland
Swing .
Light Laurie
Yvonne
March 1 to IS, 1923.
Producer — Fox
Footage — 4,587 ft.
...Dustin Farnum
Doris Pawn
Francis McDonald , . . .Gilbert Holmes . .. .Lucille Hutton
Distributor — F ox
Our Opinion
MORAL O’THE PICTURE— None.
Ordinary Western Minus the Usual Amount of Thrill
There is not much to recommend this picture to the exhibitor or to his public other than the fact that it is clean and has a sprinkling of mildly applied comedy. Dustin Farnum plays a role that affords him little opportunity other than to smile fetchingly and often. Doris Pawn does ordinarily well as the girl from Boston, who mistook her guide and his aide for robbers and became so incensed at the humorous angle from which Bill Coryell viewed the situation that she plunged headlong into a trap set for her by the villain, who persuaded her to go riding with him and then kidnaped and imprisoned her. The only thrill of the picture occurs when Bill tries to ascend the face of a steep embankment by way of a rope that is perilously near the breaking point. Gilbert Holmes does well in the comedy role of Light Laurie, and Francis McDonald makes a good heavy.
PROGRAM COPY — “The Buster” — Featuring Dustin Farnum
Bill Coryell had his hands full taming the girl from Boston. See this amusing comedydrama, in which Dustin Farnum is on the job with a wealth of smiles.
“RACING HEARTS”— Class A
(Adapted from story of same name)
Story: — Daughter Overrules Father’s Aversion to Advertising; Wins Road Race
VALUE
Photography — Very good — Bert Baldridge. TYPE OF PICTURE— Sporting — Fascinating. Moral Standard — Average.
Story — Very good — Comedy-drama — Family. Star — Very good — Agnes Ayres.
Author — Very good — Byron Morgan. Direction — Very good — Paul Powell. Adaptation — Very good — Will M. Ritchey. Technique — Good.
Spiritual Influence — Neutral.
Producer — Paramount
CAST
Virginia Kent Agnes Ayres
Roddy Smith Richard Dix
John Kent Theodore Roberts
Fred Claxton Robert Cain
Jimmy Britt Warren Rogers
Silas Martin J. Farrell MacDonald
March 1 to 15, 1923.
Distributor — Famous Players
Footage — 5,000 ft.
Our Opinion
MORAL O’THE PLAY— It Pays to Advertise.
Spirited Comedy-Drama Presents Agnes Ayres in Peppy Role
“Racing Hearts” brings memories of that splendid series of automobile stories in which Wallace Reid appeared not so very long ago. And the fact that Theodore Roberts is cast as before in the role of an automobile manufacturer and father to an irrepressible young person serves to intensify the im
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