The Adolph Zukor prize has been awarded by a distinguished body of judges to Rafael Sabatini's novel 'Scaramouche,' produced on the screen by Rex Ingram. Mr. Zukor offered the prize to the writer whose story replay made the best picture to be produced on the screen and publicity exhibited in a theatre during the year beginning September to 1923, and ended on September 1, 1924. The final choice narrowed down to seventeen productions, as follows:- The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln, A Woman of Paris, Scaramouche, The Iron Horse, The Marriage Circle, The Ten Commandments, Anna Christie, Beau Brummel, Girl Shy, The Humming Bird, The Thief of Bagdad, The Sea Hawk, Secrets, America, The Enchanted Cottage, Merton of the Movies and Monster Beaucaire. Queen's Theatre will show 'Scaramouche' on Saturday.
Headline
Scaramouche'
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1925-02-19
- Publication Year
1925
Page
8
Column
Local Cinema Features
Key Person
Film Projector / Film(s)
Scaramouche
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Actors
Lloyd Ingraham
Director
Rex Ingram
Writer
Rafael Sabatini (by)
Country
USA
Released
1924-02-01
Runtime
124 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
When a nobleman murders his best friend, a lawyer becomes a revolutionary with his heart set on vengeance.
Awards
1 nomination.
Rated
Passed
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Actors
George A. Billings
Director
Phil Rosen
Writer
Frances Marion (screenplay)
Country
USA
Released
1924-01-21
Runtime
120 min
Genre
Biography
Plot
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
Awards
1 win.
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The Iron Horse
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Actors
George O'Brien
Director
John Ford
Writer
Charles Kenyon (story)
Country
USA
Released
1925-10-04
Runtime
150 min
Genre
History
Language
None
Plot
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
Awards
1 win.
Rated
Passed
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The Marriage Circle
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Actors
Florence Vidor
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Paul Bern
Country
USA
Released
1924-02-10
Runtime
85 min
Genre
Comedy
Language
None
Plot
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.
Rated
Not Rated
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The Ten Commandments
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Actors
Theodore Roberts
Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Writer
Jeanie Macpherson (story)
Country
USA
Released
1923-11-23
Runtime
136 min
Genre
Biography
Language
None
Plot
After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, while the atheist brother's breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy.
Awards
2 wins & 1 nomination.
Rated
Passed
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Anna Christie
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Actors
Blanche Sweet
Director
John Griffith Wray
Writer
Bradley King (adaptation)
Country
USA
Released
1923-11-25
Runtime
96 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor. What ...
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Beau Brummel
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Actors
John Barrymore
Director
Harry Beaumont
Writer
Clyde Fitch (play)
Country
USA
Released
1924-03-30
Runtime
135 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries ...
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Girl Shy
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Actors
Harold Lloyd
Director
Fred C. Newmeyer
Writer
Sam Taylor (story)
Country
USA
Released
1924-04-20
Runtime
87 min
Genre
Comedy
Language
None
Plot
A shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way.
Rated
Not Rated
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The Humming Bird
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Actors
Gloria Swanson
Director
Sidney Olcott
Writer
Maude Fulton (play)
Country
USA
Released
1924-01-13
Runtime
80 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war, she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.
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The Thief of Bagdad
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Actors
Douglas Fairbanks
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Lotta Woods (scenario editor)
Country
USA
Released
1924-04-11
Runtime
155 min
Genre
Adventure
Language
None
Plot
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
Awards
2 wins.
Rated
Not Rated
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The Sea Hawk
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Actors
Milton Sills
Director
Frank Lloyd
Writer
Rafael Sabatini (by)
Country
USA
Released
1924-06-14
Runtime
123 min
Genre
Adventure
Language
English
Plot
A wrongly convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain.
Rated
Passed
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Secrets
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Actors
Norma Talmadge
Director
Frank Borzage
Writer
Rudolph Besier (play)
Country
USA
Released
1924-03-24
Runtime
108 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
After 40 years of struggle on the Wyoming frontier, a woman reflects on her hardscrabble life with her unfaithful husband.
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America
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Actors
Neil Hamilton
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Robert W. Chambers (screenplay)
Country
USA
Released
1924-02-21
Runtime
141 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
Rated
Passed
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The Enchanted Cottage
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Actors
Richard Barthelmess
Director
John S. Robertson
Writer
Gertrude Chase (titles)
Country
USA
Released
1924-03-24
Runtime
70 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
A crippled World War I veteran retracts to a small cottage in the countryside to escape from his nosy family and to hide from the outside world. There he meets a plain but also a very kind ...
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Merton of the Movies
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Actors
Glenn Hunter
Director
James Cruze
Writer
Marc Connelly (play)
Country
USA
Released
1924-11-03
Runtime
80 min
Genre
Comedy
Language
None
Plot
Merton Gill dreams of being a star of western films in Hollywood. When the filmmakers there see his acting style, they get their own idea of how to use his talent.
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