Double Feature
That Certain Thing (Silent with Live Music Score)
So This Is Love? (Silent with Live Music Score)
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That Certain Thing (Silent with Live Music Score)
Featuring live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.
Director Frank Capra’s first feature for Columbia Pictures, the silent That Certain Thing stars Viola Dana and Ralph Graves. Dana plays a poor girl who falls in love with wealthy Graves, the son of a millionaire restaurateur. When Graves declares that he has no intention of going into the family business, his father cuts him off without a dime. With nary a dime between them, Graves and Dana hit upon a moneymaking plan: they’ll manufacture box lunches in Dana’s kitchen, then sell them to construction workers from the back of her Model T. The box-lunch enterprise blossoms into a big business, driving dad’s chain of restaurants into bankruptcy. All is forgiven when Father becomes Graves’ junior partner. Lensed for less than $20,000 (the “prop” box lunches saved catering costs!), That Certain Thing was a hit, launching a long and rewarding association between Capra and Columbia. (Sony Pictures)
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Starring
- Viola Dana, Ralph Graves, Burr McIntosh, Aggie Herring
- Year
- 1928
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 69 minutes
So This Is Love? (Silent with Live Music Score)
Featuring live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.
No relation to the 1953 Grace Moore biopic of the same name, So This is Love was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry’s newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who’s just car-razy about “cave men.” Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra’s Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra’s initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing. (Sony Pictures)
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Starring
- Shirley Mason, William Collier Jr., Johnnie Walker
- Year
- 1928
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 60 minutes