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• Educational Screen 1928-1929 — page 68

  …O.) Cheap thriller, brassy and vulgar, poorly acted. Crimson City, The (Myrna Loy) (Warner) Oriental thriller with evil- designing mandarins thwarted by English hero…

• Educational Screen 1926-1927 — page 487

  …Johnstown Flood, The (George O'Brien) Rather Good Interesting Better not Melodramatic thriller — above average — rather tell- ing use of historical disaster. Let's…

• Educational Screen 1922 — page 103

  …It is interest on a sensory level of this sort to which the "movie- thriller" appeals. The thriller has to be made more and…

• Educational Screen 1936 — page 280

  …Agreeable little thriller. 11-3-36 (A) Fair (Y-C) Rather good thriller Back to Nature (Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane) (Fox) Another picture in…

• Educational Screen 1939 — page 244

  …9-12-39 (A) (Y) Very good of kind (C) No Blind Alley (Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak) (Columbia) Tense, grim "different" thriller…

• Educational Screen 1938 — page 136

  …Barrymore) (Para) Hectic thriller of London- Paris chase, by auto, ship and plane, after stolen suitcase of new super-explosive, including mur- ders, labored…

• Educational Screen 1938 — page 336

  …Moto (Lorre, Wilcoxon, Mary McGuire) (Fox) Grim, crime thriller with the usually sinister Lorre as smiling, suave-spoken detective running down the arch-villainous…

• Educational Screen 1937 — page 190

  …5-25-37 (A) Fair (Y-C) Good of kind Girl from Scotland Yard (Karen Morley) (Para) Complex mystery thriller built round sinister "death…

• Educational Screen 1926-1927 — page 645

  …Almost every stage of the orange trees' growth is shown in this thousand-foot enter taining "thriller." The folks in your town want to…

• Educational Screen 1924-1925 — page 384

  …Almost every stage of the orange trees' growth is shown in this thousand-foot enter- taining "thriller." The folks in your town want to…

• Educational Screen 1936 — page 213

  …Morris, Marian Marsh) (Col) Sensational G-Man-gangster thriller. Gang kid- naps head engraver in U. S. Treasury, forces production of counterfeit bills. Maximum…

• Educational Screen 1940 — page 230

  …Passable little thriller. B-7-40 (A) Feeble (Y) Passable (C) Fair Dr. Cyclops (Albert Dekker, Janice Logan) (Para) Fantastic pseudo-science thriller of…

• Educational Screen 1946-1947 — page 329

  …Comedy, Drama, Mysteries, Thrillers, Musicals, Cartoons ... all distributed by Film Highlights 1%::=^'=^ m^^ Al #1^' \^i '\. FILM HIGHLIGHTS, INC. 330 West 42nd St., New…

• Educational Screen 1937 — page 216

  Page 218 The Educational Screen THE FILM ESTIMATES Anna (Russian Dialog, English Titles) (Am- kino) Romantic Soviet spy thriller of eome appeal. Interesting story…

• Educational Screen 1930-1931 — page 181

  …Murder WUI Oat (Jack Mulhall) f First Nat'l ) A mystery-thriller built with more skill than usual—sus- pense well handled and ending…

• Educational Screen 1939 — page 72

  …incurs grave suspicion, but deftly solves all ! Well-acted, agreeably puzzling little thriller more amusing than seai-y- 2-7-39 (A) Good of…

• Educational Screen 1944-45 — page 843

  …battle action thrillers, V-E and V-J Day events. They'll be in the midst of headline events mold- ing the future of…

• Educational Screen 1939 — page 36

  …12-27-38 (A) Stupid (Y) (C) No value Gang Bullets (Robert Kent, Anne Nagel) (Monogram) Low cost thriller, quite elementary in acting, but…

• Educational Screen 1939 — page 224

  …His thwarted romance is pleasantly pathetic. 'Thriller not over violent. 6-6-39 (A) Good of kind (Y) (C) Good thriller Risky Business (George…

• Educational Screen 1928-1929 — page 549

  …For "The Crimson Circle" is a "thriller" by Edgar Wallace, produced by British International Films, and although, judged by its own standards, it may…

• Educational Screen 1937 — page 110

  …Pretentious thriller. 2-9-37 (A) Depends on taste (Y) No (C) No Breezing Home (W. Gargan, Wendy Barrie) (Univ. ) Unpretentious, better - than - average…

• Educational Screen 1928-1929 — page 300

  …Beyond the Sierras (Tim McCoy) (Metro) Western thriller ~ usual McCoy heroics but not so good as usual. Blindfold (George O'Brien) (Fox) Stupid policeman…

• Educational Screen 1928-1929 — page 426

  …Black Waters (James Kirkwood) (World Wide) Melodramatic mys- tery thriller of tough life on the water front. AU-talkie but also nearly all "hokum…

• Educational Screen 1939 — page 376

  …All devices of blood-and-thunder serial thrillers employed. 11-14-39 <A) Poor (Y) Poor (C) No Challenge The (Luis Trenker, Robert Douglas…

• Educational Screen 1938 — page 166

  …Involved and overdone thriller. 5-3-38 (A) Mediocre (Y) Exciting (C) No College Swing(Burns, Allen, Raye, Hope, Horton. etc.) (Para) Delirium of…

• Educational Screen 1939 — page 176

  …4-11-39 (A) Hardly (Y) No (C) No Dodge City (Errol Flynn, de Havilland) (War- ner) Lavish Technicolor western thriller, bury- ing history…

• Educational Screen 1930-1931 — page 560

  …East of Borneo (Charles Bick- ford) (Universal) Artificial thriller carried to absurdity. Preposterous itory, ridiculous improbabilities. Endless jungle terrors, cruelty, bru- tality, and faked…

• Educational Screen 1939 — page 308

  …A very un-HolIywood thriller. 10-10-39 (A) Good of kind (Y) and (C) No Hawaiian Nights (Johnny Downs. Mary Car- lisle, Ettienne…

• Educational Screen 1936 — page 52

  …1-14-36 (A) Excellent (Y) Fine thriller (C) Too strong Case of the Missing Man (Roger Pryor) (Columbia) Unpretentious story of_ newspaper photographer…

• Educational Screen 1926-1927 — page 87

  …They actually prefer the Western thriller to anything else. It is the chil- dren's fight with pirates in Peter Pan that makes them…

• Educational Screen 1940 — page 184

  …4-9-40 (A) Fine of kind (Y) Mature (C) No Danger Ahead (Phillip Renfrew) (Monogram) Class B crime and adventure thriller. Royal Mounted…

• Educational Screen 1935 — page 47

  …Well-acted thriller with stupid title. A— Good of kind Y -Good thriller C—Hardly Secrets of the Chateau (Claire Dodd) (Uni- versal) The…

• Educational Screen 1939 — page 47

  …musical romance, comedy, drama, and "thriller." Our original statement was that commercial motion pictures are primarily for enjoy- ment, and some people enjoy "thrillers…

• Educational Screen 1934 — page 82

  …A—Notable Y—Very mature C—No Devil Tiger (Pseudo-jungle-thriller) (Fox) Naive hash of newsreel jungle shots, seeking continuity by feeble plot…

• Educational Screen 1936 — page 180

  …6-2-36 (A) Pleasant (Y) Good (C) If it interests The Last Journey (British film) (Atlantic) Hectic thriller of slight merit. Express train…

• Educational Screen 1939 — page 266

  …6-27-39 (A) (Y) Mediocre (C) No Rookie Cop (Tim Holt, Virginia Weidler) (RKO) Simple little thriller with boyish cop for hero, engaging…

• Educational Screen 1922 — page 174

  …cheap thrillers, concocted for low-brow patronage. When the movies were established the "popular price" theatres lost th< popularity and soon disappeared coi pletely…

• Educational Screen 1934 — page 22

  …A—Mediocre Y—Hardly C—No Police Car 17 (Tim McCoy, Evalyn Knapp) ( Columbia ) Exciting thriller on radio-car po- lice activities, in which…

• Educational Screen 1922 — page 293

  …One may hope it is e last knell sounding the passing of the eap "thriller" and marking the advance a sounder art based on…

• Business Screen 1942,1943 — page 147

  …SPORTS/ Sports thrillers of all kinds. Fast-paced, exciting films on fishing, boxing, horse- racing, football, water sports, skiing, skat- ing, bowling, bronco- busting…

• Educational Screen 1940 — page 94

  …Jr.) (Univ) Fine cast used in stereotyped jungle thriller of pseudo-scientific search for Inca treasure by six males and one female (absurdly chic…

• Educational Screen 1922 — page 200

  …will be spared the treacherous influ- ences of cheap slapstick and super- thrillers. When we remember that the later life of the adult finds…

• Educational Screen 1943 — page 151

  …ONE MILLION B.C.—9 reels—Victor Mature and Carole Landis in a super- thriller involving pre-historic animals. OUR TOWN—8 reels—starring…

• Educational Screen 1924-1925 — page 554

  …foolery occupied the seat behind, in a movie theatre, while a thriller was being pro- jected. In the manner so well known to the…

• Educational Screen 1937 — page 24

  …Sidney Black- mer) (Capitol) Stupid mystery thriller, naively told, that involves high minister, honored lawyer, and Chief of Scotland Yard with seem- ingly criminal…

• Educational Screen 1936 — page 88

  …2-11-36 (A) Hardly (Y) Good of kind (C) Good thriller Bohemian Girl, The ( Laurel and Hardy ) (MGM) Very funny nonsense comedy, with…

• Educational Screen 1936 — page 20

  …1-7-36 (A) Hardly (Y) Hardly (C) No East of Java (Charles Bickford) (Univ.) Old-style thriller built solely for shudders. Sinister ship…

• Business Screen 1942,1943 — page 461

  …In our laboratory we cut the feature pictures you pi<k out into serials— like the old-style Pearl \^ liite "keep "em coming" thrillers…

• Educational Screen 1922 — page 87

  …Even the "thrillers" are now coming from foreign shores! Four solid pages ': crimson advertisement announce "The iistress of the World," a four-volume rial…

• Educational Screen 1935 — page 191

  …Wong ( Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford! (Monogram) Chinatown thriller of grim doings by Oriental master villain, peeking twelve power-giving coins of Confucius but foiled…