Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flesh (Emil Jannings). Not Samuel Butler's famed novel but Perley Poore Sheehan's little-known story supplies the framework of the great German actor's first U. S.-made film.* It concerns one August Schiller, who flourished in Milwaukee back in the days when gentlemen associated that town with beer, and when ladies carried muffs. The first half of the film shows him a pillar of society, plain, foursquare, sunk in a large family. A doting father of six, a pompous cashier in his bank, a champion bowler, he is admirable in all things, full...
...Years later, the bedraggled old Zeus is pictured peeping through frost-dimmed windows to behold from his own shadowed squalor the riches and happiness of his grown-up family. While Mr. Jannings is on the screen, as he is most of the time, even the bleary portions of the film are compelling...
Running Wild (W. C. Fields). Ever since Herr Freud took to unsnarling the human mind, playwrights have reveled in the possibilities of Jeff's suddenly out-mutting Mutt. Not the least amusing of such fancies is this film in which Finch, the browbeaten, stumbles into an experiment in hypnotism and emerges Mr. Finch, brow-beater. Whereas his wife used to nag him, his son jeer at him, his boss sit on him, he now throws china at the picture of his wife's first husband, thrashes his son, bullies his boss, roars like a lion, and kicks...
...Whirlwind of Youth (Lois Moran). He who runs amuck amongst women is considered the sweetest catch. In this film, evolved pleasantly enough from A. Hamilton Gibb's novel, Soundings, the cocky Lothario finds that a glance from Nancy (Lois Moran) plumbs depths of emotion hitherto unknown and strangely captivating. Most of this goes on in Flanders Fields where he is a soldier and she an ambulance driver; where one may sigh for a battered village and smile at pompous officers...
...interesting and in all probability and instructive entertainment. Nevertheless he has committed a heinous breach of taste, for he has more than hinted that his inspiration while making the picture was of as divine an origin as was Moses' when he received the Ten Commandments. Evidently the completed film was the work of Cecil B. de Mille in co-operation with Michel the Archangel. Whatever success the picture has, piously murmurs the gentlman, is due not so much to himself as to his celestial...