Word: barthelmess
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...Fighting Blade. Richard Barthelmess appears a trifle more romantic than ever in round helmet and shiny breastplate-a Roundhead Captain in the forces of Oliver Cromwell. Divesting himself of these friendly ferries, he enters the enemy stronghold at Staversham as a spy. Spying he is spied upon, detected, made prisoner. There follows a hideously tiresome torture scene-the only blemish of the production. Finally the lovely heroine files his fetters and he escapes via the water route beneath the castle walls...
Many and many a year ago was this plot skeleton first set up for celluloid decoration. Despite its age, Barthelmess makes it dance with more than its share of youthful agility. His own part is set squarely in a favorite groove. His supporters (particularly Dorothy Mackaill) know well and perform capably their various businesses...
...have already spoken too often of the so-called Algonquin group. Not having eaten lunch in that much publicized hostelry for over five months, so far as I know the group may be actually a myth by now, as it always tended to be. Still, Richard Barthelmess, a most serious-minded young man, spoke of it with awed accents not long ago; so probably the effervescent Mr. Woollcott is still its gayest respected member and it has probably become the Rotary Club of literary New York...
...abortive rebellion in the Cuba of 1850. Colorfully produced, with incidents of beauty, it yet misses genuine impressiveness -partly, perhaps, because Dorothy Gish, as the Spanish dancer, le Clavel, seems pitifully miscast. She does her very best with it, but the role simply does not fit her. Richard Barthelmess, as the adventurous young American dandy-hero, is better but not wholly successful. A word should be said in favor of Jetta Gondal who portrays a scintillating Chinese vamp and Anders Randolph as a sinister Spanish captain. The direction is intelligent, the supporting cast splendid and the picture, in general, well...