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...immorality. The point is made by displaying a man and a woman in residence without benefit of clergy. The man finally pulls a gun on himself. Side by side with this fable is, of course, the happily married pair, living thus ever after. As a cheap melodrama, the film is not bad; as a criticism of the current social system, it is grotesque...
Capital Punishment. We are led to believe that this effort is something of a propaganda film. Death for crime is depicted, in a sense, as a crime in itself. The familiar old device of showing a prisoner convicted by circumstantial evidence is employed. He didn't do it. You know he didn't; everybody knows it; but it takes the film several reels of rather weary melodrama to convince its own authorities...
...Show 4000 Feet of Film...
Dick Turpin. Tom Mix displays his values in the present film with the aid of silk breeches, boots and a feathered hat He plays the famed bandit who robbed to help the poor. Beside robbing, he fights barehanded with the Bristol Bully, makes love, sticks up a bishop. A sense of comedy assists materially. Many critics noted that Tom Mix is acquiring agility, more resilient than that of Douglas Fairbanks...
Broken Laws. When Mrs. Wallace Reid was prompted by the oily counsels of certain picture promoters to capitalize in the name of reform the death of her famed husband, the public was divided between crass curiosity and amazed disappointment. The curious were in the majority, apparently, since her dope film went the rounds and now has a successor. The present protest is against jazz and the younger generation. It teaches that parents must set a good example to their children. It follows the faithful old anti-jazz formula which has been a cinema staple five long years...