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| Bruce Calvert |
 Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 1:44 pm |
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/live/bal-li.friday01may01,0,3892256.story
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The final day of MFF 2008 starts with one of the festival's most delightful
traditions, a Sunday-morning silent film with accompaniment by the
three-piece Alloy Orchestra. Underworld (11:30 a.m., Charles Theatre 1) is a
1927 gangster flick from Austrian-born Josef von Sternberg, who would go on
to achieve his greatest fame as the director-of-choice for Marlene Dietrich.
This film, starring George Bancroft (as Bull), Evelyn Brent (as Feathers)
and Clive Brook (as Rolls Royce), is filled with the requisite turf battles,
conflicting loyalties and two-timing molls that would come to characterize
the great Warner Bros. gangster flicks of the '30s, even if the snappy
dialogue is -- obviously -- missing.
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Bruce Calvert
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| Opry phantom |
| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 1:44 pm |
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On May 2, 11:44 am, "Bruce Calvert" <silentfilmxs...@verizon.net>
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Quote: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/live/bal-li.friday01...
Sunday
The final day of MFF 2008 starts with one of the festival's most delightful
traditions, a Sunday-morning silent film with accompaniment by the
three-piece Alloy Orchestra. Underworld (11:30 a.m., Charles Theatre 1) is a
1927 gangster flick from Austrian-born Josef von Sternberg, who would go on
to achieve his greatest fame as the director-of-choice for Marlene Dietrich.
This film, starring George Bancroft (as Bull), Evelyn Brent (as Feathers)
and Clive Brook (as Rolls Royce), is filled with the requisite turf battles,
conflicting loyalties and two-timing molls that would come to characterize
the great Warner Bros. gangster flicks of the '30s, even if the snappy
dialogue is -- obviously -- missing.
--
Bruce Calvert
Hot stuff (I suppose) in '27, but having the Bancroft character an
old fashion smash and grab mug seems strange. Moll (Brent) quite
good, but mobster, Larry Semon??
p.s. In old days, a gun moll was a female pickpocket. See, The STING |
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