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“VIRGIN”— 65%
(Adapted from "The Virgin of San Bias”)
Reviewed December, 1924
VALUE
Photography — Good — Not credited. Moral standard — Average.
Story — Good — Drama — Adults. Author — Good — Julio Sabello.
Cast — Good — All-Star.
Direction— Good — Alvin J. Neitz. Technique — Average.
Spiritual Influence — Neutral.
Moral — None.
CAST
Maria Dorothy Revier
David Kent Kenneth Harlan
Ruiz Sam De Grasse
Valet Frank Lackeen
Producer — Phil Goldstone. Footage — About 6800 feet. Distributor — State Rights.
THE OPINION
Interesting story with Spanish atmosphere. A bit too long, but the action proves interesting. One of the thrills of the picture which is well mandled is a sword bout between the hero and the villain. The romance holds considerable suspense. Tjis will serve fairly well on the neighborhood program. It is sufficiently different in general outline to hold the attention of the average audience.
THE STORY
Maria loves David Kent. Don Ruiz proves that Kent's father murdered the father of Maria years before; and Maria, believing she can forget David, marries Ruiz. Later, in a duel Ruiz is killed, and the lovers are free to marry.
“OH, DOCTOR!”— 90%
(Adapted from story of same name)
Reviewed December, 1924
VALVE
CAST
Photography — Very good — Warrenton. Rufus Billups, Jr Reginald Denny
Moral standard — Average. Dolores Hicks Mary Astor
Story — Excellent— Comedy — Family. Mr. Clinch Otis Harlan
Author — Excellent — Harry Leon Wilson Mr. McIntosh William Mong
Star — Excellent — Reginald Denny. Mr. Peck _ Tom Ricketts
Direction — Excellent — Harry A. Pollard — — —
Technique — Excellent. Producer — Universal.
Spiritual influence — Neutral. Footage — 6587 feet.
Moral — Illness often only imagination. Distributor — Universal.
THE OPINION
One of the season's best. Cast unusually good. Original and funny. Any audience will understand and like it. The director has hit on a lot of amusing business such as individual ways of expressing nervousness as shown by the three men. One tears paper to bits, another treads a conventional design on the carpet, and the other repeatedly hooks his neck with cane. The adventures of the hero after he has determined to master the things he has feared include automobile accidents and an attempt to paint a flag pole.
TIIE STORY
His determination to overcome fear that he is ill and be a man the girls like, causes Rufus to break out of a sanitarium and creates interesting comedy with the ending in which he is about to be married to a pretty nurse.
“TORRENT”— 50%
(Adapted from story of same name)
Reviewed December, 1924
VALUE
Photography — Good — Not credited. Moral standard — Average.
Story — Average — Rom.-Melo. — Adults. Author — Average — L. McCormick.
Star — Excellent — Rin-Tin-Tin, a dog. Direction — Average — Ho wardYounger Technique — Average.
Spiritual Influence — Neutral.
Moral — None.
CAST
Hale Garrison William Fairbanks
Gloria Manners Ora Carew
Ernest Leeds Frank Elliott
Sea Captain Chas. K. French
Another Woman Gertrude Astor
Producer — Phil Goldstone. Footage — About 5800 feet. Distributor — State Rights.
THE OPINION
Some good jazz and a romance at sea. A good deal that is the same old stuff. Cheap theatres will like this production, and it may fill the bill in the transient theatre, but too trivial for the better class houses.
THE STORY
A frivolous young woman is married at sea to Garrison as a joke. When they land Garrison kidnaps her, Gloria learns that she loves her husband.
“BELOVED BRUTE”— 80%
(Adapted from story of same name) VALUE
Photography — Very good — Not credited. Moral standard — Average.
Story — Very good — Drama — Adults. Author — Very good — Kenneth Perkins. Cast — Very good — All-Star.
Direction — Very good — J. S. Blackton. Technique — Very good.
Spiritual Influence — Average.
Moral — None.
Reviewed December, 1924 CAST
Jacinta Marguerite De La Motte
Charles Hinges Victor McLaglen
David Hinges William Russell
Augustina Mary Alden
China Jones Stuart Holmes
Producer — Albert E. Smith. Footage — 6719 feet. Distributor — Vitagraph.