New Pictures: Jul. 11, 1927

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Broadway Nights. A cabaret piano-pounder (Sam Hardy) teaches his pretty wife (Lois Wilson) the steps and tunes that lead to the top of the song-and-dance heap. Unfortunately, he permits rolling dice to crush his moral fibre, so she leaves him and starts to ascend alone. Abjuring all her rich admirers in the moment of glittering triumph, she returns to her husband, who promises never to do it again. The film was made in Manhattan, enriched with authentic local color from the footlight district, blessed with an intelligent scenario.

Captain Salvation (Lars Hanson). New England of 1840 had small sympathy for erring women. When one of them (Pauline Starke) is shipwrecked on their rock-bound coast, the rock-ribbed natives cast her out. Only the young minister (Lars Hanson) stands by her. Together they take refuge on a convict ship, where after ghoulish adventures with the villain captain (Ernest Torrence), they come upon placid seas of matrimony.

* Other films in which Emil Jannings has appeared : The Last, Laugh, Siegfried, Variety, Faust, †A previous cinema example : the De Mille picture : The Ten Commandments- * Actor Charles Emmet Mack was killed in an automobile accident in Hollywood while driving to the studio to be filmed in this picture.

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