Word: reelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most effective documentaries of World War II, a two-reeler called The Pale Horseman, was still going begging last week. Movie audiences were seeing it in only a few of the nation's big & little picture palaces...
...year-old Chamorro told a story that had all the melodrama of an oldtime cowboy-and-Indian two-reeler. The better-looking girls, she said, had to take turns going to the Jap officers' camp to cook-and "for other things." Her turn was due, she said, "the day the Americans came-just in time...
...modest educational two-reeler, bearing the portentous title To the People of the United States, caused a row last fort night. Its subject: syphilis. Object: to help prevent the disease, by telling the facts...
...twelve, at 19 joined a stock company, soon rose to leading parts with Minnie Maddern Fiske and Julia Marlowe. Pronounced fatally tuberculous, seven years later he earned $125 for two days' work as the star of the first movie made on the Pacific Coast: a one-reeler, The Sultan's Power (1909). Three of his 500-odd subsequent films: The Big Parade, Woman of Affairs, The Miracle...
Second, attraction is Comic Mario Moreno, known throughout Latin America as Cantinflas, Mexico's Charlie Chaplin. He is seen by the U.S. public for the first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...