1 Os special interest is the announce
i mem that Russell Fillmore, once n
i stock favorite here and long a popu
j lar juvenile in productions, will be
j brought from New York to interpret
j the name role.
I “The Fall Guy” deals with a hen
pecked young husband who loses hts
j job, falls in with shady companions
and finally accepts an easy job, a well
paying job, about which he is suspi
cious and which develops to be that
of a runner for bootleggers. His first*
consignment of contraband finds its
way to his own flat, where, ironically,
a frequent caller at the house turns
out to be a revenue agent. Accident
ally 'be suit case of illegal stuff is
discovered, opened and found to con
tain not liquor, but something in
finitely more serious.
How the fall guy gets out of his
predicament is presented in alternat
ing gusts of laughter and thrills of
Has Passed Through the
Stages.
\\7AY back in the early days of the
! movies George Siegmann was
villaining as earnestly as he is today.
Today he is seen in one of the fea
ture roles in “Poker Faces,” a Uni
versal Jewel production. Fifteen
years ago he was playing a featured
role in “Mutascopes,” one of the early
Biograph productions.
He has progressed from the green
est melodrama, to the most intense
yellow of comedy.
In shooting “Poker a high
power, electrically driven camera
noiselessly exposed the film as it sped
.past the lens. The machine was
small and easily carried by one man.
