Word: film
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asunder. Filmi-nations of the film factories against divorce were chronicled in this column last week in an estimation of Reno. The present production pushes vigorously the happy home campaign. It represents a most egregious waste of effort. The film is probably the dullest, most absurdly wearisome production that has been reviewed herein for weeks...
Reno. Those who witness this film and take it seriously might just as well decide never to get married at all. Rupert Hughes has perceived that the conflicting State divorce laws are far too complicated for the American citizen who goes in for marriage as a comprehensive study. He may be married in one state, bigamous in another and, after supporting his fair share of wives for a number of years, find that he has been a bachelor all his life. All these arguments Mr. Hughes has woven into a singularly tedious picture. The spectacular absurdity of his disposal...
Through the Dark. To those who have learned through long acquaintance with the cinema that crooks have hearts of gold, the moral of this film will undoubtedly appeal. A simple boarding school girl assists a criminal to escape from San Quentin prison by a pleasantly incredible device; drawn into his underworld life, she finally regenerates him with her love. On the face of it such a yarn seems almost impossibly cinemesque. Colleen Moore manages to make it plausible in spots...
West of the Water Tower. Since the book on which this film was founded has been widely sold and widely discussed (TIME, June 11) it seems unnecessary to detail the plot. Sufficient unto the story is the memorandum that it is a tale of Western small town life, youthful love and the bigotry of rural ignorance. As transferred to the screen and interpreted by Glenn Hunter, it seems to lodge safely among the leading half dozen pictures of the year...
...Hollywood plant will resume operations with three companies. Gradually twelve companies will be engaged there. In 1924, 45 pictures will be made in Hollywood; 15 other film plays will be made at the Lasky studio on Long Island. This projected production of 60 pictures in 1924 compares with the 52 pictures produced in 1923. Mr. Lasky emphatically denied rumors to the effect that motion picture producers contemplated moving their studios from Hollywood to the East. Said he: "These reports about centering production in the East or about moving our studio East are entirely unfounded. Time after time we have investigated...