Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:53 am
I like some of the Lippert stuff, particularly things like Hollywood Varieties. It's not particularly distinguished film-making, but it's a decent recreation of a vaudeville show -- the same reason I enjoy all those early Vitaphone shorts.
Of course, there's not a film that one person thinks is awful that someone else won't think is great.
PRC wasn't out of business -- it was merged into Eagle-Lion under Ben Krim, so it survived as United Artists and, under some interpretations, as Orion. But yeah, PRC was pretty dire.
Bob
New and vigorous impulses seem to me to be at work in it,[the cinema] and doubtless before long it will drop all slavish copying of the stage and strike out along fresh paths. -- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree