Judge — September 8, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE JUDG! WEN you are really loggy from secing reel W sive reel of tasteless movies, it is flying in the face of gratitude to find fault with a picture so superior in every way as “The Patriot.” ix picture provides one of those interludes in our cathedrals of the moving celluloid which illows you to sit back and experience a lusty faction at the performance, unmarred by of stereotyped Hollywood practice. so rare satis Mr. Neuman probably never thought of Emil Jan- nings when he wrote this play around Paul, Czar of Russi ence but I think even an’ author would experi- a healthy glow of enthusiasm ner in which J t the grand man and rings bellows roars his way through the characterization of the mad son of Cath- rine the Great. From the moment the big fellow sticks his leering countenance around the massive door of the throne room every other item in the picture retreats into subdued relic - He waddles through the cold marble hally with the evil gusto of a child of the ned bear set on the heights of Olympia, a clumsy- pawed, mischievous gorilla given control of the evils a uni verse It is movie tradition that successful box office “types” are repeated until they grow stale, and up to this picture Mr. Jannings has not been permitted to do much except march ponderously down stair ways and through alleys with the same Wagnerian tread which brought him fame in “Variety” and *The Last Laugh Tlowever, in“ The Patriot,” he sticks out his tongue destinies of a country. ten in the play and hone. What credit docs not belong to Mr. Jannings giggles, at justice, he romps with the The part was brilliantly writ- Jannings plays it clear to. the nnings should tx “The Cireus"—Charlie Chaplin's Iat- “Ladies of the Mob” —Clara Bow fing the are cu “The First Kiss" —Kteviewnl “Four Walls" —Iteviewol in this lees IMG THEM OV = By PARE LORENTZ attributed to the deft hand of Ernst Lubitsch, the director. Indubitably one of the greatest directors in’ the movies, Here Lubitsch maintains an atmosphere of austerity throughout the story, {under his super vision wis Stone docs the best work it has ever been my pleasure to witness from that gentleman There was a fault, imposed by the company. (W you didn’t think I could g indefinite did yor ell, on being nice After the picture had been completely finished, so I understand, sound sequences were added. stupid on the part of the Paramount. it is a current selling device Jends dramatic interest to a job that was brilliantly directed and performed. However, the raucous interference quences does not enter into the picture enough to give thon a flicker of annoyance It's a pleasure to recommend a picture with the char- neter of “The Patriot. As» now ness of the day. It was Just bee does not mean that it of the sound se frequently you more we can settle regular busi- First Kiss” down to the Ho ham, “Th has more to do with oysters than kissing, but that’s the best Tocan say it other than that it had the emaciated body of what might have been a right Ithy story. "he atmosphere of the small Eastern shore fishing village is remarkably well done. All that needed was an actor or two. Gary Cooper is the hero of this little masterpiece, and never relaxes: the picture as he grim look of concentra tion on his handsome features before every camera which he appears. our only conclusion is’ that the youn. man has made ap his mind to try (Continued on page 31) very, very comicbooks.com