To the Editor S. C. M. Post – Mr. Ray's reply on the 'Films Out East' article. He has an opposite view. About China as a dumping ground for junk films. He hardly thinks Paramount, Realart, and Fox productions are to be classed in that category. He mentioned that the Coronet showed a lot of good pictures, including 'Alf's Button,' First National, Metro, Vitagraph specials, Pathe and United Artists. For comedies, they have Chaplin, Lloyd, Semon, Rolin, and Mack Sennett release, the only first-class comedian not appearing on their screen so far being Buster Keaton. The Chinese demand is an entirely different one from European requirements, but a glance at the Chinese programmes of the World and Easter cinema shows that 1921 and 1922 serials have been shown continuously during the past year. Furthermore, about people have been 'had' by big advertising of poor pictures, he mentioned that even the 'Miracle Man,' 'Intolerance,' 'Male and Female,' 'Daddy Longlegs,' 'Back to God's Country,' 'The Brat,' 'Man, Woman, Marriage,' 'Way Down East,' got 'complaints'.
Headline
Films Out East
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1922-11-30
- Publication Year
1922
Page
9
Column
Correspondence
Film Projector / Film(s)
Alf's Button
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Actors
Leslie Henson
Director
Cecil M. Hepworth
Writer
W.A. Darlington (novel)
Country
UK
Released
1921-12-06
Genre
Adventure
Language
English
Plot
A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.
Rated
PASSED
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The Miracle Man
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Actors
Lon Chaney
Director
George Loane Tucker
Writer
George M. Cohan (play)
Country
USA
Released
1919-08-26
Runtime
80 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam gullible public of funds for a supposed ...
Rated
Not Rated
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Male and Female
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Actors
Thomas Meighan
Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Writer
Jeanie Macpherson
Country
USA
Released
1919-11-23
Runtime
116 min
Genre
Adventure
Language
None
Plot
Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
Rated
Not Rated
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Daddy-Long-Legs
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Actors
Mary Pickford
Director
Marshall Neilan
Writer
Jean Webster (story)
Country
USA
Released
1919-05-11
Runtime
85 min
Genre
Comedy
Language
None
Plot
An orphan discovers that she has an anonymous benefactor who is willing to pay her college tuition, unaware he's the same man who has been romantically pursuing her.
Rated
Unrated
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Back to God's Country
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Actors
Nell Shipman
Director
David Hartford
Writer
James Oliver Curwood (by)
Country
Canada
Released
1919-10-27
Runtime
73 min
Genre
Adventure
Language
None
Plot
A woman finds herself all alone in a remote harbor with the man responsible for the murder of her father. With seemingly nobody around to protect her, she has to be resourceful.
Rated
Unrated
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The Brat
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Actors
Alla Nazimova
Director
Herbert Blach??
Writer
Charles Bryant
Country
USA
Released
1919-09-01
Runtime
70 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing. He ...
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Man-Woman-Marriage
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Actors
Dorothy Phillips
Director
Allen Holubar
Writer
Allen Holubar (story)
Country
USA
Released
1921-03-27
Runtime
85 min
Genre
Drama
Language
English
Plot
Rebelling against a forced engagement to Schuyler, Victoria falls in love with young attorney David Courtney and marries him. At first they are happy, but when David is drawn into political...
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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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