Word: meighan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home Week. Good comedy material for Thomas Meighan has once more been secured from the workshop of Booth Tarkington. Our hero bluffs his old village into believing him an oil king; discovers oil on the village outskirts; goes broke; and is forced to devise a water spout on the oil strike to puff values for his stock. Through it all he is, of course, quite honest. Lila Lee is the lady he marries. While scarcely a classic, the film is the best Air. Meighan has manufactured in some time. (See also BUSINESS & FINANCE...
...costumes. The picturesque Oriental attributes of the story-caves and palaces and deserts-are naturally big medicine for the cinema. Betty Blythe, the slave girl, puts her heart into the thing, as well as her hips and shoulders. The picture is a pretty good imitation. Coming Through. Thomas Meighan is, as usual, quiet and strong, kindly and brave. He is the mine superintendent who averts the strike and hurls Wallace Beery (villain) off the scaffolding. Lila Lee is also implicated as his wife. As a careful copy of the usual Meighan formula, the film will no doubt prosper...
Pied Piper Malone. Booth Tarkington pulled up his chair and wrote this play expressly for Thomas Meighan. When the last foot of film had flickered it was obvious that he had not done a first class job. Smartly titled and perfectly hygienic, it is unsatisfactory as mature entertainment. The hero is a New England villager whose personality has attracted the idolatry of the entire juvenile population...
Homeward Bound. Here is an excellent example of harmless diversion. The producer has selected a heavy-weather sea story, relieved it with stray breaks of sunlight in the form of love and comedy, given it over to the able playing of Thomas Meighan and Lila...
...Meighan is a first mate on the Brent Line. Miss Lee is the daughter of the House of Brent. After a secret marriage to the mate she stows herself away on a leaky old three-master which he must take to San Domingo. Father Brent follows furiously after in his private yacht. A hurricane breaks - one of the heaviest of the present picture season. But God saves the poor sailors, and father Brent takes his new son-in-law into the firm...