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“CONDUCTOR 1492”— 90%
(Especially prepared for the screen) Reviewed April, 1924
Theme— Irishman Who Wins Favor and Fortune) Locating Missing Stock Scripts
VALUE
Photography — Excellent — Not credited. Type — Humorour — Thrilling.
Moral Standard — Good.
Story — Excellent — Com.-Melo. — Family Star — Excellent — Johnny Hines.
Author — Excellent — Johnny Hines. Direction — Excellent — Charles Hines. Adaptation — Excellent — Not credited. Technique — Excellent.
Spiritual Influence — Average.
Moral — None outstanding.
CAST
Terry O’Toole Johnny Hines
Noretta Connelly Doris May
Mike O'Toole . Dan Mason
Bobby Connelly Byron Sage
Richard Langford Robert Cain
Denman Connelly Fred Esmelton
Edna Brown Ruth Rennick
Producer — Warner Bro9. Footage — 7079 feet. Distributor — Warner Bros.
Opinion
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A Top-Notcher for the Wide-Awake Exhibitor
If the exhibitor i$ looking for a top-notch comedy-melodrama he cannot do better than book “Conductor 1492.” It is representative of the best type of comedy, clean, wholesome and every inch entertaining. Johnny Hines is his very self in the title role, and Dan Mason as his good old Irish father who arrives in town via the police patrol. Doris May is graceful as the picture’s sweetheart, who falls in love) at first sight with “Conductor 1492,” who saves her little brother from being killed by the street car. A vein of intrigue puts an extra kick in the picture. A spectacular fire and rescue are staged in which Johnny Hines carries Dan Mason out of a two-story window amid flames, the old mam having gone into the fire to rescue the doll. One of the best comedy features of the picture occurs at a skating carnival where Johnny Hines supplies the legs in the “north end” of a fake camel.
“UNKNOWN PURPLE”— 80%
(Adapted from a play of the same name) Reviewed April, 1924
Theme — Secret Color Method Man Accused in Recovering Formula
VALUE
Photography — Very good— Oliver Marsh Type — Sensational.
Moral Standard — Average.
Story — Very good — Melo. — Family. Cast — Very good — All-Star.
Author — Very good — Roland West. Direction — Very good — Roland West. Adaptation — Very good — P. Schofield. Technique — Very good.
Spiritual Influence — Neutral.
Moral — None.
CAST
Peter Marchmont._ Henry B. Walthall
Jewel Marchmont .Alice Lake
James Dawson Stuart Holmes
Ruth Marsh ..Helen Ferguson
Bobbie .....Frankie Lee
Mrs. Freddie Goodlittle .Ethel G. Terry Leslie Bradbury James Morrison
Producer — Carlos Production. Footage — 6950 feet.
Distributor — Truart — State Rights.
Opinion
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Mystery Feature — Unadulterated Melodrama — Excellent Cast
“The Unknown Purple” is a mystery story in which the novelty of illustrating the strange color invention possessed by the hero, with a purple glow over scenes in which the “unknown purple” veils the form of the strange visitant, terrifying the occupants in the home of the transgressors, is an added attraction. The plot concerns the railroading of an innocent man to prison, of his escape to find the woman he believed to be waiting for him married to another, and his child neglected and left to the care of servants. By means of a strange color process he is able to move about, steal necklaces from women’s necks, and rifle safes, etc., without being perceived, the color glow causing invisibility. The cast is a well selected one, and the production should give good satisfaction in neighborhood houses billed as a novelty melodrama.
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