(To the Editor, S. C. M. Post) I feel bound to reply to Unklutch's latest sneer at 'so-called super-productions.' The pictures for which the Coronet increased prices during the past twelve months were: 'Way Down East,' 'The Three Musketeers,' 'Intolerance,' 'The Four Horsemen,' 'Smilin' Through,' 'Hunting Big Game,' 'The Mark of Zorro,' and 'Robin Hood.' Which of these does your correspondent say was not a super-production? Which of them was not worth $2 a seat at the dearest performance and 40 cents at the cheapest? All of them were shown at $2 in Shanghai, which showed in addition 'Little Lord Fauntleroy,' 'Kismet,' 'Grandma's Boy,' 'Dr. Jack' and 'Nanook of the North' at super-production prices, while we were content to get usual rates for them. Our present film at the Coronet, 'The Prisoner of Zenda,' was also shown at $2 in the northern port and was considered good enough to be used as the opening programme at the newly erected Carlton Theatre. Next month, we are showing 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Orphans of the Storm,' and I suppose 'Amusements,' 'Unklutch,' 'New Arrival' and 'Ennui' will raise a howl at being charged $2 to see them.
Headline
Cinema Prices
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1923-10-19
- Publication Year
1923
Page
17
Column
Correspondence
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Way Down East
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Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Lottie Blair Parker (from the play by)
Country
USA
Released
1920-09-03
Runtime
145 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Rated
Passed
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The Three Musketeers
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Actors
Adolphe Menjou
Director
Fred Niblo
Writer
Alexandre Dumas (by: "The Three Musketeers")
Country
USA
Released
1921-08-28
Runtime
119 min
Genre
Action
Language
None
Plot
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, ...
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Actors
Pomeroy Cannon
Director
Rex Ingram
Writer
Vicente Blasco Ib????ez (novel)
Country
USA
Released
1921-04-01
Runtime
150 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
Awards
1 win.
Rated
Passed
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Smilin' Through
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Actors
Norma Talmadge
Director
Sidney Franklin
Writer
Jane Cowl (play)
Country
USA
Released
1922-02-13
Runtime
96 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from marrying him by her guardian John Carteret. John is haunted by memories of his thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean.
Rated
Passed
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The Mark of Zorro
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Actors
Marguerite De La Motte
Director
Fred Niblo
Writer
Johnston McCulley (based on the story by: "The Curse of Capistrano" published in "All-Story Weekly")
Country
USA
Released
1920-12-05
Runtime
79 min
Genre
Adventure
Language
None
Plot
A seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.
Awards
1 win.
Rated
Passed
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Robin Hood
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Actors
Wallace Beery
Director
Allan Dwan
Writer
Douglas Fairbanks (story)
Country
USA
Released
1922-10-18
Runtime
143 min
Genre
Adventure
Language
None
Plot
A nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.
Awards
1 win.
Rated
Not Rated
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The Prisoner of Zenda
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Actors
Lewis Stone
Director
Rex Ingram
Writer
Anthony Hope (novel)
Country
USA
Released
1922-09-11
Runtime
125 min
Genre
Adventure
Plot
When the king is drugged and abducted by his ambitious brother, a lookalike relative must take his place to keep the evil sibling off the throne.
Rated
NOT RATED
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The Birth of a Nation
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Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Thomas Dixon Jr. (adapted from his novel: "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan")
Country
USA
Released
1915-03-21
Runtime
195 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Awards
2 wins.
Rated
TV-PG
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Orphans of the Storm
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Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Adolphe d'Ennery (novel)
Country
USA
Runtime
150 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
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Not Rated
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