Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five thousand eager Yorkshire women sought to crawl into a small theatre, at Bradford last week, to view an instructive sex film entitled The Dangers of Innocence...
Tempest. The face of John Barrymore is, no doubt, a handsome one. His bare shoulders also have a certain attraction. Observers of Tempest are not allowed to forget these facts, which occupy an inexcusably large amount of the film's footage. So, it is no wonder that the reputedly "gripping" action drags. Mr. Barrymore is Sergeant Ivan Markov, of peasant birth, who attains a lieutenant's commission in the Russian army by hard work and through the influence of a kindly general (George Fawcett). Ivan worships the general's haughty daughter (Camilla Horn), but she treats...
...that ever picked up a 25¢ tip. His way of wearing a cigaret or a dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French officer as yawningly as a dull waiter ties a greasy apron around his belly. Mr. Menjou as Captain Ferreol is confronted with a tough problem: he must either reveal his onetime...
...make a down payment on a brain, as everybody else has one." Raymond Hatton, sometimes a scampering reporter and sometimes a knife-wielding gangster, is the cause of Mr. Beery's bewilderment. There are funnier things in the world than mistaken identity, but they are not present in this film...
Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. set out to make a cinema of life at Yale. Wells Root, able scribe, Yale graduate of 1922, wrote the story. The co-operation of Yale University was sought. Yale officials, however, exhibited coolness. So last week Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. planned to shoot the film in California, to use instead of Yale the name of a fictitious institution of learning...