Judge — October 15, 1927 — page 53: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE JUVGWG THe MIO VI IE& B WARE LORENTZ ¢ fe ur Harry Langdon picture, “Three's a Crowd,” is. in- dicted on three counts: (1) bad taste, (2) cheap sentimen- tality, (3) insanity. In “Three's a Crowd” Langdon uses the theme of father love and child- bearing to ercate comedy and the result is about as funny as you could imagine a movie written by Dr. Freud in conjunc- tion with Bruce Barton might be. Langdon has cither seen some scenario German pictures or has been reading Vanity Fair articles on the movie as an Infant Art, be- cause he starts off with a terribly pathe little symbolical touch that comes unde indictment 2 (cheap sentimentality). Langdon shows us a rag doll thrown by the wayside, beaten by rain and pelted with snow, a toy kicked a and_ villified by life. This story of the little doll ives you to under- stand that under the clown’s make- up a man’s heart is breaking. It’s all very, very sad. With the silly symbolism of the doll to go by, you have the general idea of the picture. Langdon is a poor, friendless fellow, who wants a wife iC por» The Movie Guide Shows continu “The Big Parade" (Trenton, N. J.)—Showing how trench warfare “worked.” "Chang" (No York showing)—You've of this picture by this time. College” —Buster Keaton in a very funny pice See it ‘Garden of Allah’ ne story illuminate ro minutes of good ing of Ringe’ Mille direcung I. unless otherwise noted). Miwice daily)—Cecil de arner, for the benefit of humanity, of course Les Miserables” (Central, twice daily)}—The makes it easy to sleep through this one, he Mazic Flame’—Another circus picture h better than usu: "Mctropolis” (R brillingly im: “Old San Francisco’ | Still the worst pict t Fini makes a being a marv wal c S Sith 43nd, Willis, in‘a worth while rand, Brook daily)—The ‘ay of All Flesh (Loew's hous innings putting life int and children, From the beginning we are given to under- stand that nothing short of a miracle could fill the bill when suddenly during a snow- storm, a woman falls at the foot of A movie tableau staged before the art museum to entice the public to look at the pictures inside. He rescues her and calls « of doctors, and we have a scene in which Lang- don sits outside his room while child is being born, This comes under indictment 1 (bad taste). Harry, now happy that he has a mother and child under his roof, works hard at being a provider, if not a husband. One night he has a dream in which he secs that the woman’s husband is coming to take her and the iby away. This sequence is fantastical and mad and just fell short of being very good, Langdon has a personality that lends itself to and the motion picture F ective in this field. comes under the not condemnatory terms of in- dictment 3. (insanity). because scene As you might have gathered from this review so far, the picture “Three's a Crowd” is not funn When a comedian decides to show that he is something more than a clown, that he has the soul of a tragedian, the re- sult is nearly al- ys tiresome en- tertainment. You ways resent this imposi- tion on the part of a fun-maker, Chap- lin is becoming more and more the morose comedian. He has not ceased to be a comedian, but there were scenes in the Gold Rush that lingered too long with the (Continued on page 28) comicbooks.com