Seventh Street Entrance

★★★★ · a curiosity · cashel · 2003-10-22

this b/w film is essentially an advertising film with an unusual approach..It presents a DRAMA where a young girl receives a message from her boyfriend advising that he is coming to the city..She examines her wardrobe and discerns that her clothes are of poor quality..Tragedy, she does not meet her boyfriend and he leaves..But ,in the magic of film, she is given a second chance, buys Quality clothes ,meeets boy, happy ending...Worth seeng for the glimpses of ordinary life in 1935

★★★ · Quality Tells, Qualuty Smells! · Spuzz · 2004-09-11

*spoilers! Maybe watch the film first!* Extreme curio that takes FOREVER to make it's point. It's not until the film is half over that you FINALLY make some sense of it. (the film is silent). In any case, a store employee recieves an ad that the store plans to use, "Quality Tells - Quality Sells!" 'BALONEY!' the girl writes on the ad! When she gets home, she recieves a telegram that her boyfriend is passing through to town on the train, and would like to see her when he comes in for the few minutes. She runs to get dressed. But all her clothes are in tatters! Her stockings have runs! Finally…