Judge — June 23, 1928 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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By PARE LORENTZ te Russian Sovict Government presents a pic- the Russ Revolution that estly be called a masterpiece. “T! etersburg”” is subtle propaganda for the iet gov- ernment, but it also the best directed and beautiful mevic have in months. From beg the with the slow, tread of a stalki stretches molten ture of n hon End of St. may is I picture bleeding fross great land, ladling of lead, forging cannons, and uprooting trees and buildings with the blind, invincible strength. “The End of St. Petersburg,” for the first time. catehes the gony of the oppressed peasantry of Russia, and with grand strokes the picture of their slow, ponderous rebellion is painted in beautiful black and white These most the sombre seen winning moves nt of streams dumb on the sereen. Russian movie people know what thes doing—with the exception of the pictures Murnau has done, and the Vidor has demonstrated he would like to do, this movie shows you the power of the medium more impressively than any recent Ameri can productions have demonstrated. There is no place for “taikil There are places where the story seems a bit stupid. are pictures here sequences.” at least in comparison with our industrial practices, and in these sequences the Soviet object lesson is ob but there situation in the that is vitiated by propaganda or “box office” inter, lation, so that the objection is of little value. There is no comedy relief, no sweet little girl who is the toast of the Army; there is nothing but grim reality painted in the most gorgeous colors vou have There is nothing funny or ignorance—there nd oof St. Petersbu ail which is vious, is no dramatic story oviet ever seen in mud, in short scene a movie. cold st “The in th was startling to. he about hunger, is relief no comedy There dit is one amusing, ar the audience let down The Temest”* triah Rona fe of Christ ths pl “Trail of 193" (Astor) —\ bun just about as boys were slipped away fron Holly (Warner's) —Accont epie, Napoleon was a mamny song writer for the As this movie End of St. beautiful, « wipe the emasculates the obtained with the it is given into the of unhampered, intelligent men. N oweexamine the little jewel Ia the Weman.” This with a couple of inside get right movie executives, titles such as “Well, Hollywood where tears entertainment for the world.” tithe—it’s better than tithe else it) would been department.) “Clothes Make about the Russian Revolution. The plot develops that Prin Anastasia escaped execution with the a young Bolshevik, who falls in love with her falls down the stairs to her supposed execution, the assigned parts in a_ picture deals with moment and of the snap hungrily for the of the Soviet ¢ but matic, laugh. a history rise is romantic fiction, Waa dr theilli Ay SOON aS YoU possibly can, of the Hollywood trash that power whieh ean really: be movie Petersburg See it memory is away movie camera once abeled “Clothes Make scintillating pastel Hollywood with all the meantime opens pictures of ball d girls, big with we down and. play ntly on boys and here we are Jed inter an actual in and stniles are me (This is not the manufactured any picture carried, not have by this the Woman” is supposedly a story SS rid of as she and both say, two meet in Hollywood years later and which, to Russian Revolution. 1 this point it becomes very involved. and [ean only tell you that the princess gets off lines such as U1 longer a princess; I woman in love after which she a notch in her belt faints in the . wh believ are stran a story of the , am ne am just a with takes und he may well sis simply beside himself with embarrassment ind then the kind arms of the as you This goes on for several minutes (Continued on page Movie Guide “Clothes Make the Woman.” Reviewed in “The News Parade.” comicbooks.com