Variety (December 1925)

VARIETY Wednesday, December 2, 1925 ii;;'iiia<u:iii'!iiiiim;iunmiimiiMii)i|i ► \ 'Road to Yesterday Is Road to Success By Waiiam J. Reilly c 1 ECIL B. DE MILLE hat roped and thrown a bucking, plunging thought. In the celluloid coil* of "The Road to Yetterday" he hat firmly caught the idea of RE-INCAR- NATION It it one thing to corral an idea with WORDS. Quite another to latto it with PICTURES. There it hardly a man or woman in I the world who hat not, at one time or p another, held the thought that in the cKm yetterday he or the lived and loved under ANOTHER GARB and under ANOTHER PERSONALITY. For that reaton ALONE "The Road to Yetterdajr" will make picture audi- encet talk. It hat every quality of GREATNESS:—the real de Mill* di- recting, ttory, acting, action, a big PUNCH, heart interett. a PORTABLE. TALKABLE idea. Traint have been wrecked in feature picturet before. In "The Road to Yet- terday" a freight train TELESCOPES' the Pullman train carrying a highly DRAMATIC patienger cargo. The audience latt Friday at the Embatty midnight thowing, mott of whom had come to the picture from other the- atret, SHOUTED itt approval when the freight engine in a HEAD-ON thot, wormed in THROUGH the tleep- ini car. WRECKAGE that BUILDS. The picture taket a group of people caught in the grip of a powerful tet of MODERN circumstancet; develops the action to a climax on the terrific train wrreck; and then cutt back to the YESTERDAY when the tame charactert mixed ale and twordplay, lordly £^rogance and gypty love. Beulah Marie Dix who «rrote the ORIGINAL play with E. G. Sutherland collaborated with Jeanie Macpherton on the film adaptation. The ttory it IDEAL icreen material. We unde(- ttand that it wat long de Miile's AIM to make "The Road to Yetterday" into a picture but that litigation tied up the tcreen rightt. HAPPILY, the ttory wat available in time for hit FIRST pertonally tupervited production for Producert Dittributing Corporation. You will like Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, William Boyd, Vera Reynolds, ^ Catton Ferguson and Trixie Friganza. So will your audiences. Even their feet ACT. And it it "The Road to Success" for P. D. C. and the exhibitort who have allied themselvet with thit AGGRES- jSIVE organization. i ■fl P ' Speaking Editorially WE sat in the crowded Embassy Theatre the other night and saw Cecil B. De Miile's first independently produced picture, "The Road to Yesterday." The hour was very late—in fact it wa> midnight when proceedings began and quite a little distance into the morning when they ended. But the picture held—every foot of the way. All the De Mille magic was present. For thrill^ there is a sensational train wreck,—quite the bc>t the screen has ever seen. There is a love story, which gains through transition back to "Yesterday' and again back to modern times; it is well-acted, elaborately staged; compellmg; highly interesting Everything in this picture has been done well. 1" hits the mark— artistically, dramatically, and box office wise. A fine picture, a great picture, a cred to De Mille and a golden thing for P.'D. C and the exhibitors who will play it. J It ruitiiuiuiwt'iWuiiiuu<miUi:!'i;:uiiumu'3ului,ni;j:ii>iiriiMii'Miiiiji:wiii,uiiiuuu4UUIii-iii>i<'i Furgign Dialributort Producert International Corportlion 130 West 46th Stre»t « New York. N Y. /{E LEASED BY PKODUCEKS fAember of Motion Pkrure PtoJi*cc»j and DuuibuiOTi of America, /nc Vf ill H. HayS Prendtnt ** 'The Road to Yesterday' exceeded all expectations. Could not have picked better pictu with no let up in enthusiasm or attendance. Heartiest congratulations to Producers !