Judge — March 26, 1927 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE GING ‘he MOVI ruE realism and artistic | sincerity are such strangers to the movies that when a film like “Stark Love is inclined to cl t. In its essen ture is a travelogue, like “Nanook of the North” or “Moana of the South Seas,” the object being to instruct us in the life of a primi- tive people, in this case the hill ies of our own Southern moun- tains. But it contains a simple and on the whole a con- vincing drama of a boy who dreams of escape from the igno- rance and squalor and brutality of environment, and of whom he imbues with a s vision and eventually takes with him. Karl Brown who wrote the comes along er without the pic- also story and directed the picture did ®y William Morris Houghton. “The Scarlet Letter"—A fine tragedy | "—A beautiful boat. iting melodrama. —Most interesting. A bedroom and Bebe. le Tell It to the Marines"—Soft hard-boiled | “The Fire Brigade"—Exciting. “Hotel Imperial’ —Pola deserves bet | ‘“Valencia”—Mae Murray flees D’ “A Little Journey”—But quite long ¢ | “Don Juan"—False and florid. “The Lady in Ermine"—Improper dream. “Flesh and the Derif'—A Garbo triumph. -fashioned mu “Blonde or Brunette | “The Kid Brother" —L r. yd, but not loud laugh- Paradise for Two"—Very mild When a Man Love ‘New Yor The General" —G ‘McFadden's Flat deeming feature. “The Third Degree”—Pictorially interesting. “The Red Milf’—Amusing. “Low's Greatest Mistake" —Blab! | “e—Clare Bow and applesauce. rere | the latter on the spot, that is to s in the Great Smokies of Eastern ‘Tennessee, and has at- tained an unusually happy blend of drama and local color, of pro- fessional and native performance. It isn’t perfect. Helen Mun- day, who takes the part of the young heroine, seems unnaturally restrained in the more emotional scenes, very possibly in the effort to act the daughter of a markedly stoical people. There are scenes, also, that bear only the flimsiest relation to the plot and whose only excuse is educational, and other scenes that go Hollywood, notably when the two young people are borne down the rapids of the swollen creek. But the boy, in the person of Forrest (Continued on page 28) 1907 Caught with a cigarette. ® tmusT Have ei mee ee { psa | LAST ONE.MA i 1927 Caught without a cigarette. comicbooks.com