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Does this exist? A group running an old theater has found that this was the first feature that the theater ran. I think they would like to get a copy to run again. Anyone have any idea?

According to the Library of Congress database, it is lost.

Unfortunately many of Monte Blue's WB material is lost from the 1920s. His silents I've seen from the 20s are "Orphans of the Storm"(1922), "Lucretia Lombard"(1923), "The Marriage Circle"(1924), "Red Hot Tires"(1925) - a flash surprise LOC screening of this in the 90s, "White Shadows in the South Seas"(1928) which MGM borrowed him from WB or possibly traded Monte with Lionel Barrymore to do "The Lion and the Mouse"(1928) an early WB talkie.

But Across the Atlantic is lost. Usually if you go to IMDb and there's no traffic about the film (other than MacIntyre's hodgepodges) that means the film is probably lost. There seems to be a new person filling MacIntyre's shoes now at IMDb, Pamela from Canada. She writes whole paragraphs User Reviews on lost films, only to tell us the film is ..well, lost.

And if you want to suggest that they show a different, extant Monte Blue picture, you can't go wrong with The Marriage Circle or Why Change Your Wife? Which are both highly entertaining.

Thanks, all! I'll pass it along!

Rodney wrote:And if you want to suggest that they show a different, extant Monte Blue picture, you can't go wrong with The Marriage Circle or Why Change Your Wife? Which are both highly entertaining.

AACK! Yes, you CAN go wrong with Why Change Your Wife? since it stars Thomas Meighan, not Monte Blue. But The Marriage Circle is great, and there exist nice 16mm prints, a 35 from MOMA (if I remember correctly) and a DVD from Image.

Rodney wrote:

Rodney wrote:And if you want to suggest that they show a different, extant Monte Blue picture, you can't go wrong with The Marriage Circle or Why Change Your Wife? Which are both highly entertaining.

AACK! Yes, you CAN go wrong with Why Change Your Wife? since it stars Thomas Meighan, not Monte Blue. But The Marriage Circle is great, and there exist nice 16mm prints, a 35 from MOMA (if I remember correctly) and a DVD from Image.

When I read the first quote, I thought "I can't recall Monte Blue in WHY CHANGE YOUR WIFE?" Thank you for letting me know I'm not going senile (at least in that respect) yet.

Another very nice extant Blue picture (also produced by Warner Brothers and directed by Lubitsch) is "So This is Paris" (1926). I've an awful old VHS tape, but the show is quite good, and the film itself DOES survive!

A restored 35mm print of Lubitsch's SO THIS IS PARIS 1926 from the Library of Congress is screening here next week.
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