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

Sold for Marriage (1916)
Director: William Christy Cabanne 
Release Date:   16 Apr 1916 
Production Company: Fine Arts Film Company
Distributor: Triangle Distributing Corporation
Cast: Lillian Gish, Frank Bennett, Walter Long   
Lillian is a Russian waif escaping from her cruel aunt and uncle who are determined to sell her into a loveless marriage.  Sell her to the highest bidder!
Restored and recommended by The Library of Congress for your viewing pleasure.
There's fun in this new type of horror picture...fun for everybody, and everybody loads of fun!

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.

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 Productions Inc.
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.

 

The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)

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.

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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.

M'Liss (1936)
Director: George Nichols Jr.
Release Date: 7 August 1936
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Anne Shirley, John Beal, Guy Kibbee
This is the story of an innocent mountail girl who causes quite a stir every time she comes to town to bring her father home from the bar.  One day, she is kissed by the town schoolmaster. Confused about the kiss, she goes to the town brothel for advice.

The Cop (1928)
Director: Donald Crisp
Release Date: 20 August 1928
Production Company: DeMille Pictures Corporation
Cast: William Boyd, Alan Hale, Jacqueline Logan, Robert Armstrong, Tom Kennedy
An Academy Award nominated story about a rookie cop that's assigned to run down Scarface Marcas, a crook whom he once befriended, before he kills again.
Restored and recommended by The Library of Congress for your viewing pleasure.

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.

HI Earl

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 (aka Hal Taliaferro), Art Mix (aka George Kesterson), Buffalo Bill Jr. (aka Jay Wilsey), Buddy Roosevelt,
Franklyn Farnum, William Desmond, and William Farnum.

The first in the 3 Mesquiteer series.

A Study in Scarlet (1933)
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Release Date: 14 May 1933
Presented by: E.W. Hammons 
Cast: Reginald Owen, Anna May Wong, Billy Bevan, Alan Mowbray
Sherlock Holmes and Watson solve a puzzling case in which a bloody foreign word is found beside a murder victim.

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.