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"BOOK THE NEW PERCENTAGE WAY”
To Whom It May Concern:
When you read a book, don’t you want to get something for your time?
When a picture is produced shouldn’t it be made worth while?
When you show a picture to your patrons don’t you try to 40 send them away satisfied?
Should a picture have a good moral or not?
Look ’Em Over!
“ACQUITTAL”— [Class A-c] 90%
(Adapted from play of same name)
Story: — Wife Saves Husband in Murder Trial — Later Suicide Mystery Revealed
VALUE CAST
Photography — Excellent — Svlvano Balboni. Madeline Ames Claire Windsor
TYPE OF PICTURE — Sensational. Robert Armstrong Norman Kerry
Moral Standard — Average. Kenneth Winthrop Richard Travers
Edith Craig Barbara Bedford
Story — Excellent — Melodrama — Family. Andrew Prentice Charles Wellesley
Cast — Excellent — All-Star — Featuring Carter Ames Frederick Vroom
Claire Windsor and Norman Kerry. Butler Ben Deeley
Author — Excellent — Rita Weinian. District Attorney Harry Mestayer
Direction — Excellent — Clarence L. Brown. Minister Emmett King
Adaptation — Excellent Jules Furthman. Maid . Dot Farley
Technique — Excellent. Taxi Driver Hayden Stevenson
Spiritual Influence — Neutral. "
November 1 to 15, 1923.
Producer — Universal
Footage — 6,523 ft.
Distributor — Universal
Our Opinion
MORAL O’THE PICTURE — Seemingly Well-Grounded Suspicions Are Often Without
Foundation
Unusually Well-Directed Melodrama, Snappily Edited and Subtitled — One of Season’s Best Box Office Attractions
No more entertaining screen melodrama could be found than “The Acquittal,” in v/hich Claire Windsor appears by courtesy of Goldwyn. It consists of pep from first to last, with not a dull moment. The introduction of characters in which the picture of each is accompanied by a description of the past, is interesting and illuminative, and moreover is a more or less original idea, which fixes in the mind of the spectator previous to the unfolding of the plot, the particular niche of the story filled by each character. The secret of the mvstery is carefully guarded, and the editing and subtitling of the picture is a work of art. For instance, the peculiar hesitancy of speech and the invariable prefix of “Oh!" to every sentence of Edith Craig’s quoted in subtitle is not alone fetching, but affords an added note of mystery to a semi-comic nature. Barbara, Bedford plays the role of Edith Craig in an unusually capable manner, and succeeds in keeping one guessing to the very end just what part she may have played in the murder mystery. An extraordinary feature about “The Acquittal” is the fact that after the accused has been tried and acquitted, the source of the misunderstanding is trailed to a mail robbery which prevented a letter from the deceased from being delivered. Claire Windsor is especially attractive in the role of Madeline Ames, and plays intelligently. Norman Kerry anad Rich
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