| 词条 | Are You a Mason? (1915 film) |
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| name =Are You a Mason? | image =Areyouamason-movieposter-1915-famousplayers-bw.jpg | image_size = | caption =Film poster | director =Thomas N. Heffron | producer ={{plainlist|*Adolph Zukor
| screenplay =Eve Unsell | based on ={{based on|Are You a Mason?|Leo Ditrichstein}} | starring =John Barrymore | cinematography = | editing = | studio =Famous Players Film Co. | distributor =Paramount Pictures | released ={{film date|1915|3|22|ref1=[1]}} | runtime =5 reels | country =United States | language =Silent (English intertitles) }} Are You a Mason? is a 1915 American silent comedy film produced by Adolph Zukor (Famous Players Film Company) and Charles Frohman, and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Directed by Thomas N. Heffron, it starred John Barrymore as a young husband who pretends to join the Masons as an excuse to get out of the house. It was based on a 1901 play by Leo Ditrichstein. Plot summaryFrank Perry (Barrymore) discovers that his wife (Helen Freeman) desires him to become a Mason. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Perry goes out for several nights to carouse and have fun while telling his wife that he is undergoing initiation at the Masonic lodge. When his wife invites her father, a Grand Master of the Masons, for a visit, Frank goes to comedic lengths to avoid being found out. The farce is magnified by the circumstance that his father-in-law has also been lying about his Masonic association.[3] Cast{{div col}}
ProductionThe film was based on a 1901 farce by Leo Ditrichstein, who in turn adapted it from a German play, Die Logenbrüder (The Freemason), by Curt Kraatz and Carl Laufs.[4] Are You a Mason? was Barrymore's third feature-length film as well as his third film under contract to Famous Players.[5] Up and coming film hero Harold Lockwood had also appeared in Barrymore's earlier The Man from Mexico in 1914. Release and receptionAre You a Mason? was released on March 22, 1915. Louella Parsons, writing for the Chicago Herald, praised the picture, and Barrymore in particular.[6] The New York Dramatic Mirror called it a "screen comedy triumph", and found nothing in it to criticize.[7] In Moving Picture World, reviewer Lynde Denig also liked the picture and thought that Barrymore improved on his earlier good performances.[8]The Variety reviewer was unimpressed, describing it as "a decidedly mild comedy" and saying that it had "innumerable opportunities for comedy situations, most of which have been sadly neglected"; the reviewer went on to credit Barrymore with whatever laughs the film was able to deliver.[9] It was re-released by Paramount in 1919 under their temporary re-issue banner The Success-Series, celebrating some of the company's major early first successes.[1] A 1922 remake was planned for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle but was dropped due to the Virginia Rappe murder scandal which ruined his career. The comedy was filmed again as a talkie in 1934. References1. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=Are You a Mason? |work=Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=1&Movie=16450 |accessdate=2015-11-09}} [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]2. ^1 {{cite book |last=Tibbetts |first=John C. |authorlink=John C. Tibbetts |title=The American Theatrical Film: Stages in Development |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aZtHtxVVWZgC&pg=PA70 |year=1985 |publisher=Popular Press |isbn=978-0-87972-289-0 |page=70}} 3. ^1 Synopsis of film: {{cite journal |title=Are You a Mason? |journal=Moving Picture World |department=Manufacturers' Advance Notes |date=March 20, 1915 |volume=23 |issue=12 |page=1786 |url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor23newy#page/1786/mode/1up}} Also, {{cite journal |title=Are You a Mason? |journal=Motography |department=Brief Stories of the Week's Film Releases |date=March 27, 1915 |volume=XIII |issue=13 |page=509 |url=https://archive.org/stream/motography13elec#page/509/mode/1up}} 4. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Tibbetts |first1=John C. |last2=Welsh |first2=James M. |title=American Classic Screen Features |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrbDle3nJscC&pg=PA25 |year=2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7679-8 |pages=25–26}} 5. ^1 {{cite journal |title=Are You a Mason? |journal=Variety |department=Film Reviews |date=March 26, 1915 |volume=38 |issue=4 |page=24 |url=https://archive.org/stream/variety38-1915-03#page/n151/mode/1up}} 6. ^1 {{cite journal |title=Are You a Mason? |journal=New York Dramatic Mirror |department=Feature Films of the Week |date=March 31, 1915 |volume=73 |issue=1893 |page=28 |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2010/New%20York%20NY%20Dramatic%20Mirror/New%20York%20NY%20Dramatic%20Mirror%201914%20May-Jun%201915%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Dramatic%20Mirror%201914%20May-Jun%201915%20Grayscale%20-%201935.pdf |via=Fulton History}} 7. ^1 {{cite news |last=Parsons |first=Louella O. |title=John Barrymore Furnishes Whole Screenful of Laughs |newspaper=Chicago Herald |department=Seen on the Screen |date=March 22, 1915}} Reprinted in {{cite book |last=Abel |first=Richard |authorlink=Richard Abel (cultural historian)|title=Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjwxCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA202 |year=2015 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-96188-3 |page=202}} 8. ^1 {{cite journal |last=Denig |first=Lynde |title=Are You a Mason? |journal=Moving Picture World |department=Review of Current Productions |date=April 3, 1915 |volume=24 |issue=1 |page=70|url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor24newy#page/70/mode/1up}} }} External links{{commons category|Are You a Mason? (1915 film)}}
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