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Wid Gunning

Wid Gunning's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Blind Justice (1915) 100% EDIT “This offering moves in a distinctive atmosphere. You are impressed immediately.” – The Film Daily Sep 8, 2023 Full Review The Ocean Waif (1916) 83% EDIT “After the story really got under way it went from bad to worse and it kept slipping until it was entirely gone.” – The Film Daily May 24, 2023 Full Review Mutiny (1917) 100% EDIT “The offering got moving along about the third reel, however, with some wild-eyed action, and oh, boy! -- it was some wild!” – The Film Daily Sep 7, 2022 Full Review The Secret of the Swamp (1916) 67% EDIT “It has one or two very good twists, but these are not impressive enough to make the production big.” – The Film Daily Sep 7, 2022 Full Review The Girl of Lost Lake (1916) 67% EDIT “The story is routine melodrama. The cast are all acceptable, but none of them register a personality which might be called distinctive. We have entirely too much detail of continuity, making the story drag very badly at times.” – The Film Daily Sep 6, 2022 Full Review The Greater Law (1917) 100% EDIT “It has a lot of action and a fairly good element of suspense, so far as the average patron is concerned... While the important situations are convenient coincidences, they are rather good and, as individual incidents, compel attention.” – The Film Daily Sep 6, 2022 Full Review The Show Down (1917) 83% EDIT “Many attempts were made to put over comedy bits, but about 80 per cent of these were so forced that they failed utterly to register, and, because of that, I fear the film will seem quite tiresome to intelligent patrons.” – The Film Daily Sep 6, 2022 Full Review Southern Justice (1917) 75% EDIT “Its chief fault is that at no time does the action really convince and none of the characters had sufficient personality to dominate or appeal, with the result that the scenes just moved along as so much routine action.” – The Film Daily Aug 29, 2022 Full Review The Extra Girl (1923) EDIT “I believe this is a fire-cracker that fizzled.” – The Film Daily Jun 27, 2022 Full Review The Miracle Man (1919) 95% EDIT “It is time to rejoice. The Miracle Man is the most exceptionally entertaining and tremendously appealing dramatic production I have ever seen.” – The Film Daily Jan 11, 2022 Full Review Far from the Madding Crowd (1915) 43% EDIT “The direction of the story throughout is decidedly "old-school," there being too much foreground to most of the action, with many of the characters playing their parts in a mechanical manner.” – The Film Daily Jan 10, 2022 Full Review The Dream Girl (1916) 86% EDIT “I think this is a very rotten story. Certainly none of the situations will convince, and at times the uncanny convenience of some of the twists made it very, very hard for the efforts of the artists to register.” – The Film Daily Jun 2, 2021 Full Review Romeo and Juliet (1916) 100% EDIT “I believe that any audience anywhere will not only be impressed by the atmosphere and by the fact that they are seeing a classic, but they will also be entertained by the offering as an interesting dramatic love story intelligently presented.” – The Film Daily Mar 5, 2021 Full Review The Skywayman (1920) 88% EDIT “The best stunt is the one in which Locke's machine wrecks a church steeple and sends the villains scooting from this hiding place.” – The Film Daily Mar 4, 2021 Full Review Queen of the Sea (1918) 80% EDIT “Of course, the outstanding item in this sort of a film is the question of how much footage registered the scantly clad mermaids. I think there is enough to hold the interest and tease 'em along without overdoing it.” – The Film Daily Nov 17, 2020 Full Review The Flapper (1920) 89% EDIT “The Flapper can be considered a very unusual comedy. It is splendidly sub- titled and there are a wealth of pretty snow scenes as backgrounds.” – The Film Daily Nov 10, 2020 Full Review Deliverance (1919) 88% EDIT “It contains also much of the beautiful philosophy that already has been given the world through Miss Keller's works, and often visualizes her dreams.” – The Film Daily Nov 10, 2020 Full Review Treasure Island (1920) 82% EDIT “It's a real, thrilling pirate tale, is Treasure Island, and one which happily came to the screen under the guidance of a man capable of realizing on the artistic opportunities presented by the story as well as its many blood-curdling moments.” – The Film Daily Nov 5, 2020 Full Review The White Heather (1919) 80% EDIT “The treatment accorded the subject by Director Maurice Tourneur accounts for its success. He had ordinary enough material to work with, but he dressed it up in a truly artistic production and the result is a technically excellent picture.” – The Film Daily Nov 4, 2020 Full Review Polly with a Past (1920) 78% EDIT “The biggest pity of all, is that Miss Claire has been allowed to keep away from the silver sheet so long. She makes Polly With a Past stand out strong enough to be mighty fair screen entertainment.” – The Film Daily Oct 27, 2020 Full Review The Better Wife (1919) 40% EDIT “For the most part the picture is straight exposition instead of interesting narrative or drama.” – The Film Daily Oct 26, 2020 Full Review The Great Air Robbery (1920) 100% EDIT “Lieutenant Locklear performs some daring feats which have been caught by the camera with surprising exactness and realism. In fact, without the exceptional stunts of the reckless aviator, the production could hardly get by.” – The Film Daily Oct 22, 2020 Full Review Double Speed (1920) 100% EDIT “Double Speed is a corking good comedy and fits Wallace Reid with a role entirely suited to his capabilities as a romantic actor and a light comedian.” – The Film Daily Oct 21, 2020 Full Review Brewster's Millions (1921) 100% EDIT “With Arbuckle the star and Henaberry directing, Brewster's Millions turns out to be one of the year's best comedies.” – The Film Daily Oct 21, 2020 Full Review A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) 100% EDIT “The Yankee's handling of King Arthur and his court in a truly twentieth century fashion got lots of laughs and there is some really good comedy in the Fox production.” – The Film Daily Oct 21, 2020 Full Review
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