Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1928 — Page 7

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MEN ARE MACHINES IN ‘METROPOLIS’ This Foreign-Made Picture at the Ohio Is One of the Most Commanding Movies That the Screen Has Given Us in the Last Twelve Months. By WALTER D. HICKMAN It is very nearly impossible for me to describe the magnitude the mechanics of “Metropolis,” a German-made movie now being distributed by Paramount in this country. Here is a movie that I listed as one of the ten best of the last season and I took the liberty of Seeing it months before it opened at the Ohio. Metropolis ’ tells the story of a gigantic city a thousand

years from now. Here is the super-city, a gigantic machinemade and operated city. The rich folk live above, ground in high buildings and the workers, just machines, live in a city constructed under the ground. The story is a gigantic bit of Imagination, but it is the way that it has been produced and directed by Fritz Lang that makes it one of the most commanding movies of the year. I was delighted yesterday while making my movie rounds to hear men tell their triends to be sure and see the movie now at the Ohio. Here is a better movie that demands the patronage and consideration of all people. Don’t get the wrong impression that this is a highbrow show just for the highbrows. Here is gigantic theater, striking melodrama and above all some of the best movie mechanics that the screen has ever revealed. It was necessary of “Metropolis" to be edited by Channing Pollock, author of “The Fool” and “The Enemy” before it was ready for American distribution. I have before me a statement of Channing Pollock which gives one an idea of the gigantic job that he had in getting this movie ready for presentation in this country. Here is Pollock’s statement: I was overwhelmed at first-. The sets were ko tremendous, the handling ox tne material was on such a vast scale that I could not grasp it. Then it dawned upon me that the rythm of the machines. ?nd the movements of the masses were the heart beats of men; that the pistons were pounding life out of hearts and that the machines were grinding out their souls. I remembered that Edison had once said: '‘Scientific achievement has gone about as far as it can for the present; it is time for the spirit and human culture to catch UP." I understand that Fritz Lang, the creator of this picture, conceived his idea when he fir saw down-town New York. He went hacic to Europe Intending to put on the screen a picture of where this vast piling of buildings, this burrowing underground, this ceaseless hurry is leading our civilization. He accomplished something that would have been impossible with any other medium of art. He photographed the results of his imagination with no technical limitations. My problem was to interpret it, to make It understandable to large members of people. It is my contention that art without purpose ceases to have value. This has definite purpose. It shows the colossal results of materialism carried to the 'nth degree. . . As it stood when I began my Job of , structural editing 'Metropolis' had no re- i strain! or logic. It was symbolism run 1 such riot that people who saw it. couldn’t tell what the picture was all about. I have | given it my meaning. I don't pretend to have given It an i original thought. All I have tried to do is to make it interesting to the ordinary intelligence. Unless it reaches millions of people' it Is useless cither as art or entertainment. Actors never make up for the people in

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the back row. If they do. they look daubed to those down front. II they make up for those down front, they look wan and pale to those in the rear. They make up for those In the center. That is what I have tried to do with "Metropolis " Some may call It SYSTEM—a cog wheel drama, but it so effective that every °f a piston reaches vour heart every cog grinds into vour brain Tlie best of the machinery is iike the theme of a symphony. 1 lacS r 0 % Us :^ ntai , lls . a Quality that is f? c , in most pictures—lmagination bio’ lea ' < ni?i? d poi P ts t 0 where we are goal K appeaf The n ° e(r *p tive fntellectuster,? P ic a Jk J , onl > possible way to tell a "Metrorio?is” la dn non the emotions does this in a tremendous I alter my system of review by giving you Pollock’s statement because I believe it will help one better understand this gigantic imaginative story. I doubt if a name in the cast of principals means anything to you until you see them. The cast of principals is here as follows, as there are thousands in the mammob scenes: Iot C w““ #t * r “*“‘ '•• • f ;' 'uOustav f F?oeIl b ch ; r/ a ' rv Heinrich George 1 * ary Brigitte Helm I recommend “Metropolis” as one of the most gigantic imaginative creations the screen has ever given us. To my way of thinking it is one of the ten best movies of the season. Now at the Ohio. a a a ‘THE GORILLA” IS GOOD SCREEN THRILLER' I Seme time ago I told you about “The Gorilla” as Stuart Walker played it at Keith’s this last summer. Here it is again, this time in the movies. I was somewhat surprised at the I trend various situations took in the j

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Verdict of the Movies OHlO—“Metropolis” is one of the ten best movies of the year. Here is some of the finest imaginative entertainment that the screen has revealed. Should be seen. INDIANA—Charles Murray and Fred. Kelsey are the dumb detectives In “The Gorilla,” which is still a corking good mystery play. A fair stage presentation about pirates. CIRCLE —Richard Barthelmess has a winner in “The Patent Leather Kid.” It comes pretty close to being as good as his “Tol’able David,” which was a world beater. APOLLO —“Old Ironsides” is fine romantic, fighting entertainment. A beautiful picture. Corking good entertainment.

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