Powdersmoke Range (1935)
Director: Wallace Fox
Release Date: 27 September 1935
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams,
Bob Steele, Tom Tyler
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
RKO rounded up every Western star not under exclusive contract to make this film and billed it "the Barnum and Bailey of Westerns".
This Western, in fact, has of no less than 13 former silent screen cowboy heroes: 
Buzz Barton, Wally Wales, Art Mix, Buffalo Bill Jr., Buddy Roosevelt,
Franklyn Farnum, William Desmond, and William Farnum.

Fall Cinesation returned to the historic
Lincoln Theatre in Massillon, Ohio
for our 18th year on Thursday,
September 25th through Sunday, September 28th.

The Grey Vulture (1926)
Director: Forrest K. Sheldon 
Release Date: January 1926
Cast: Ken Maynard, Hazel Deane, Whitehorse
Thinking that he has killed a man, Bart Miller (Maynard), a mild mannerd westerner, heads for the hills, encountering on the way a driverless stagecoach full of beautiful girls. For some, that's enough story, but there is more to see and we're not telling!
Unlike most westerns, this movie is set in then present day 1926.
Maynard: "Have you no respect for a lady?"
Old Man: "I respect a lady-- but that's my wife!"
Restored and recommended by The Library of Congress for your viewing pleasure.

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Soul of the Beast (1923)
Director: John Griffith Wray 
Release Date: 7 May 1923
Distribution Company: Metro Pictures Corp.
Production Company: Thomas H. Ince Corp.
Producer: Thomas H. Ince
Cast: Madge Bellamy, Oscar as himself, Cullen Landis, Vernon Dent
Love, hate, drama and action are included in this story of an abused girl that runs away from the circus and takes an elephant along for the trip.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Director: Henry Hathaway
Writers: Francis Yeats-Brown (novel)
             Grover Jones (adaptation)
Release Date: 11 January 1935
Production Company: Paramount
Cast: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone,
Richard Cromwell, J. Carrol Naish, Monte Blue
Always out-numbered! Never out-fought! These are the Bengal Lancers...heroes all...guarding each other's lives, sharing each other's tortures, fighting each other's battles...
A trio of gallant British officers ordered into India. Their mission is to put down a rebellion in the northern part of the country, and in the process must struggle with each other and their own internal conflicts.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

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A Quiet Fourth (1941)
Cast: Edgar Kennedy, Sally Payne, Jack Rice, Charlie Hall
Edgar decides the 4th of July fireworks celebration in town is too much for his nerves and leave town to picnic in what turns out to be an Army artillery range.

College Swing (1938)
Director: Raoul Walsh
Release Date: 29 April 1938
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Cast: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, Robert Cummings, Martha Raye, Edward Everett Horton, Ben Blue, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan
The story begins in 1738, when a pact is drawn up between the Alden family and a highly respected Colonial college: If any female member of the family can pass her college exams within a 200-year period, ownership of the institution will be turned over to her. 
It's now 1938 and here comes Gracie to star in this musical comedy and take over.

The Typhoon (1914)
Director: Reginald Barker
Release Date: 10 October 1914
Produced by Thomas H. Ince
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Frank Borzage, Gladys Brockwell 
Based on a successful play about a diplomat in Paris who lives a refined life. He has a French sweetheart who is engaged to an American (Frank Borzage). The diplomat is actually on a secret mission to create a confidential report on the French military forces. 
His sweetheart finds out that he is seeing another woman, they fight, she ends up dead. He wants to confess to the crime but his mission is too important.  He then fights his conscience.  This film was a great success and led Hayakawa to a successful film career.
Print Provided & Restored by The George Eastman House  

False Faces (1919)
Director: Irvin Willat
Writer: Irvin Willat
Release Date: 16 February 1919
Production Company: Thomas H. Ince Corp
Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Mary Anderson, Lon Chaney
It's World War I, and a professional thief known as
The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied intelligence headquarters. However, German agents set out to stop him, headed by the man who was responsible for the death of the thief's sister. Tinted print.

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TWICE TWO (1933)
Laurel and Hardy in drag playing each other's wives.
The two couples get together for a zany anniversary celebration.

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Crashing Hollywood (1938)
Director: Lew Landers
Release Date: 7 January 1938
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Lee Tracy, Tom Kennedy, Jack Carson, Joan Woodbury
Behind the scenes at Wonder Studios!
This is a back-stage crime comedy that takes a satirical shot at the studio system in place at that time. Trouble begins when an ex-convict and a screenwriter write a screenplay based on a real bank robbery the ex-con was involved in.

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Director: Lewis Milestone
Release Date: 24 August 1930
Cast: Lew Ayres, Slim Summerville, Louis Wolheim, Raymond Griffith and over 2000 extras.
It took 1.25 million dollars in 1930 to bring this book to the big screen!
This Acadamy Award winning movie is told entirely through the experiences of the young German schoolboys that are talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War One by their teacher.
Restored and recommended by The Library of Congress for your viewing pleasure.

The Ice Flood (1926)
A Universal Jewel Production
Director: George B. Seitz
Release Date: 2 October 1926
Cast: Kenneth Harlan, Viola Dana
Will the ice break up with disasterous results to everyone and everything in its way?  If it does, will our hero beat the clock to save the day?
Provided by The Library of Congress for your viewing pleasure.

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Billy Believes (1922)
A Brackett Comedies release distributed by Educational Film Exchanges.
It is little Billy's third birthday and he develops a tummy ache from too much cake and dreams that the toy lion and bear come alive and terrorize the apartment tenants.
Restored by The George Eastman House from 28mm to 35mm

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Hoodwinking the Police (1917)
American Pathé   Comedy 
Two attractive women join the police force and find they have to contend not only with the perils of doing their job and dealing with the public, but also dealing with a station full of men. 
The decision has been made to put "the men" in their place!
Restored by The George Eastman House from 28mm to 35mm

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Everybody's Sweetheart (1920)
Director: Laurence Trimble
Release Date: 4 Oct 1920 
Production Company: Selznick Pictures Corp.
Cast: Olive Thomas, William Collier Jr., Joseph Dowling
The story of two runaway orphans, love, family and maybe a touch of greed.
Print Provided & Restored by The George Eastman House  

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) 134 min (re-release) version
Director: Sam Wood
Release Date: 28 April 1944
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Katina Paxinou, Akim Tamiroff
The Most Thrilling Moment Ever Screened!
This is our 2008 35mm IB Technicolor feature presentation. 
Story: Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a real man of action.
There is a civil war going on and Jordan (Cooper) has joined up on the side that appeals most to ideals and has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains.
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, and Katina Paxinou all got Academy Award nominations. Only Paxinou won the Oscar for this film.  

Saturday 

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A Japanese Idyll (1912)
Director: Lois Weber
Production Company: Rex Motion Picture Company

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The Attack of the Indians (ca.1911)
Director: James Young Deer
JamesYoung Deer is considered to be the first Native American filmmaker and a creative force who wrote, directed and acted in films in the early 20TH century.
Restored by The George Eastman House from 28mm to 35mm

LEFTOVERS AND MISFITS IN THE PROJECTION BOOTH
Not the guys! Every year there is film left over and other titles we want to see that don't fit in the schedule, well they fit in right here! 
I know we will have:
Viola Dana fragments from two of her lost films
A forgotton Greta Garbo screen test 
Youthful Old Age (1936) Informational short about the social security.
More IB Tech...

Sunday 

Thursday 7p.m.

Eric Grayson Presents:
Eric, our favorite film goodnik of the region will introduce his shorts of rarely seen and often obscure original prints.
This years contents included:  
Jasper and The Watermelons (1942) 
La Fiesta De Santa Barbara (1935)
The Ford In Your Future (1949) 
How To Vote (1936) A Robert Benchley short

Production Company: Columbia Pictures 
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre,
Eddie Laughton, Larry Parks,
Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom 
From HORROR To HOWLS...FROM MAYHEM TO MERRIMENT!
You'll be tickled to death over this gay chiller diller!
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and the bodies in the basement.