Judge — May 1, 1926 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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ING. the a The Was not meantasabur- Otherwise, it wouldn't have lapses which almost trip one into taking it seriously. Some of the scenes at West Point, for instance, are a little hard to laugh off. But take it all in all the screen affords no richer example of naive melodrama. It was written by the man who directed it. No doubt this explains: a great deal. Edward Sedgwick, its author and director, evidently be- longs to the motion picture fraternity heart and soul; Ts safe to say that” Frontier lesque. he is an alumnus of chool whose slogan reads, “knock ‘em cold!” Hence his plot plays a ting second to his spectacle; his in, who wears a black mustache curled at the ends, does all but yell, “Curse you, Jack Dalton!” and his ul Custer displays all the ex- clamatory gestures of the original ham. The main purpose of “The Flaming Frontier” is to reproduce the famous fight at Little Big Horn in which the legions of Sitting Bull trapped and Houphton “The Big Parade” “A Wom clever adap! “Tum 1 Mt “Jor Cinderella” —Quite. worth “Wa ist Richard Dix. ma Wild West wild. jannequin’— Fanny Hurst's prize story Mannequins, crooks, See it for the chariot race Jack Barrymore in a mutila "Moby: Dick “Lon Chaney docs his of the South Seas’ — Charming rand Duchess ea with and the Waiter Adolphe Menjou and War tragedy from Ibanez « sa finished jet Married” —Richard Dix makes it “Irene” fashion sho} Colleen Moore in’ farce and Fairbanks’ featsin color, apsti&k version of Frank mystery dram: Tntamed Gloria Swai as pered wo nen Pal ‘om Mix jumps his horse Sania open box cur. Barrier Lats Barrymore “Desert Gold” —Sappy Western, “The New Klondike’ —Florida boom farce “The Devil's Circus’—Melodrama with a few slight variations from the formula | Crown of Lice”—Balkan romance with ari. “Bride of the Storm’—Dolores Costello is rescued from three Dutchmen in a lighthouse. of ice and Lionel annihilated Custer’s command. Here was (or is, for that matter) a sple ndid opportunity for the pictures. But to be done convincingly there should he no skimping of expense. tunately. in Unfor- ‘rontier”™ indications — of economy all along the line. I noted. for example, that in the gathering of the “ten thousand” Indians there was an obvious effort to multiply a few score supers into the her by “The Flaming there are distinct equisite num- having them mill about in This scene seemed to be re- peated several times, which circles. as did one in covey of naked braves came running to the rendezvous on foot. ly in the hurly-burly of the battle scene TL thought I detected the same soldiers dying more than once. After the precedent: set by Hale this is pure sacrilege. Nathan The best actor in the picture is George Faweett, who takes the part of Senator Stanwood. the hero, played by Hoot Gibson, starts out well as a Pony Express (Continued on page 26) Bob Langdon, Burcirar—Oh, fer Gawd’s sake! An? me wit’.a nawful headache. comicbooks.com