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"The Submarine"
If the newspapers
which have lambasted this sketch (the
worst horror an American audience of refinement
has ever had mistakenly placed
before them) expressed what they probably
think of any set of barbarians who
could enjoy it, there would be a war with
France within twenty-four hours, and
Mr. Ryley's measures to aid the Hague
Conference fail. What is gruesome to us
seems to be a comedy to the French, or
aa we accept comedy over here. The motion
pictures by a French manufacturer
are often loathesome in their themes,
disgustingly revolting in the principal
scenes, and "The Submarine" would have
been a star moving picture for the
Frenchmen.
Source:
Variety 12:10 (11/14/1908)