In 1937 he was responsible for the banning of the pro-Spanish Republic film “The Spanish Earth” because it might offend our European friends Italy and Germany.
GOOGLE: The theater offered a $25 cash prize for the best essay or review of the film. Providence resident H.P. Lovecraft, who won the prize, found the movie to be a “pitifully feeble & hackneyed” melodrama completely lacking in technical skill. Instead of writing a flattering piece to win favor, he submitted a brutal, four-page critique “roasting” the production. To his surprise, the management awarded him the first-place prize money anyway, commending the sheer quality of his writing.
GOOGLE: “The theater offered a $25 cash prize for the best essay or review of the film. Lovecraft found the movie to be a "pitifully feeble & hackneyed” melodrama completely lacking in technical skill. Instead of writing a flattering piece to win favor, he submitted a brutal, four-page critique “roasting” the production. To his surprise, the management awarded him the first-place prize money anyway, commending the sheer quality of his writing."
Original British titles: “Laxdale Hall” (John Eldridge) and “Emergency Call” (Lewis Gilbert".
“Arizona Wildcat” was a 1939 movie.
“Arizona Wildcat” was a 1939 movie.
Roddy would have been about seventeen at this time.
Circa 1915.
Circa 1946. Film titles are from 1941 and 1946. Errol Flynn in “The Sea Hawk” (1940), maybe, next door at the Scollay Square.
Circa 1871.
“I figli di nessuno,” silent era version.
“The Lash” was a 1930 film.
In 1937 he was responsible for the banning of the pro-Spanish Republic film “The Spanish Earth” because it might offend our European friends Italy and Germany.
In 1941.
Don’t know what “Angel of Love” was in Italy. It may have been Gys’s 1928 “La madonnina dei marinari.”
Griffith appeared in person at this premiere.
Ines Orsini who played Lucia in this film had also played Maria Goretti in the Italian “Cielo sulla palude.”
“Sei tu l'amore” was an Italian-language film made in the USA.
“Satchmo the Great opened in 1957.
Von Sternberg’s “Salvation Hunters” was dedicated to the derelicts of the world. It can be seen complete on YouTube. “Frivolous Sal” is presumed lost.
GOOGLE: The theater offered a $25 cash prize for the best essay or review of the film. Providence resident H.P. Lovecraft, who won the prize, found the movie to be a “pitifully feeble & hackneyed” melodrama completely lacking in technical skill. Instead of writing a flattering piece to win favor, he submitted a brutal, four-page critique “roasting” the production. To his surprise, the management awarded him the first-place prize money anyway, commending the sheer quality of his writing.
GOOGLE: “The theater offered a $25 cash prize for the best essay or review of the film. Lovecraft found the movie to be a "pitifully feeble & hackneyed” melodrama completely lacking in technical skill. Instead of writing a flattering piece to win favor, he submitted a brutal, four-page critique “roasting” the production. To his surprise, the management awarded him the first-place prize money anyway, commending the sheer quality of his writing."
The French silent film can be seen complete on YouTube.
Sarah Bernhardt’s films were shown in Providece, but she herself made several stage appearancees in the city over the years that she performed.
“A Japanese Pipe Dream” was a 1943 propaganda short film about Japan’s alleged involvement in the illegal opium and heroin trade.
Opened in the US in 1914.
I saw this movie here during this run. I was 14.
A lost film. Trailer survives.