| Better Times | |
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| Directed by | King Vidor |
| Written by | King Vidor |
| Starring | ZaSu Pitts |
| Cinematography | William Thornley |
| Distributed by | Robertson-Cole |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
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Better Times is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by King Vidor.[1] [2] A print survives in the EYE Institut Filmmuseum Nederlands.[3] Produced by the Brentwood Corporation, the film stars the then unknown Zasu Pitts in an early screen appearance.[4]
The picture is the second of four Christian Science “preachment” films that represent a brief phase in Vidor’s output, championing the superiority of self-healing through moral strength, supplemented by the benefits of rural living.[5]
- ^ Baxter 1976, p. 9: “...romantic comedy...”
Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 28: “...a rural comedy…” - ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Better Times at silentera.com
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Better Times
- ^ Baxter 1976, p. 9: Vidor “spotted [Pitts] on a Hollywood streetcar")
- ^ (Gustafssson, 2016: “The film “advocated views associated with Christian Science (not to be confused with Scientology), a then relatively new religious movement that came about towards the end of the 19th century and to which Vidor claimed allegiance.”
Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 26
Baxter 1976 p. 9