Welcome to Geno's House of Rare Films, this is where you'll find rare and hard-to-find comedy shorts, animated films, novelties and feature films that are likely to NEVER be released in full on DVD/Blu-Ray. As a note to the parties who control this material, I am in NO WAY profiting off of the content, I am only preserving film history with the uploads of these shorts and features. Thanks for understanding.
It reminds me of three different films I have seen on cases of mistaken identity regarding criminality. One with Edward G. Robinson, another with ZaSu Pitts, and quite another with Stuart Erwin.
I love Irene, but I've always hated the Ditzy Woman character trope. It's supposed to be funny, but it's nothing but insulting. The Dopey Dad trope character is just as bad.
The activity of the wagon train and the shots from inside the wagon looking out at the landscape and the exterior sounds were excellent. Best wagon train sequence I have seen. Couldn't be duplicated in a TV program. I am finding it so worthwhile to discover the B movies of all genres of the 1930s, even early '40s; just a little before my time. I am trying to understand what Maynard's behavior was that disturbed people. Maybe he became quiet, sullen and maybe pouted; then blew up. I remember my father, also from southeast Indiana, telling me that he thought Ken Maynard became afraid, maybe for a lot of reasons. The more he burst out in anger, the more his fears were realized. He has a real nice manner, speaks politely and seems sensitive and humble onscreen. What's not to like? I can understand why producers and studios who fired him gave him another chance; there was a lot that was likeable about him. It's interesting how many times Maynard says to the person next to him "Come on." In many scenes he didn't have many lines.
Apparently, the word "amorous" was very offensive in 1933. (Now you know where RU-vid gets their censorship tips from.) Also apparently, the New York State censor board were complete idiots, judging by the 5 minutes worth of innocuous lines they made Columbia chop out while the "It'll be coming off any minute now" joke didn't cause them to bat an eye.
So sad ; if he was able to make it until the era of antibiotics (1940s) when penicillin was first used, he’d have given us so many more gems. A tremendous loss.
While I do like Taylor Holmes as an actor, he was the wrong choice for King Stefan as he made him sound too old, stressful, grumpy and stubborn as King Hubert is. If he turned down this role to work full time on Lady and the Tramp as not only as a doctor but also a professor, I think it would have been better for Disney.
Taylor’s role as a king / father for a princess (like Aurora) was similar to King William in Swan Princess and Sultan in Aladdin. Both oldish, stern, and compassionate.
@@WizardOfHumor1989 actually while I do tolerate your opinion the only few freaking times where Taylor’s performance sounded good was when Stefan tried to have Maleficent arrested and when he saw Aurora for the first time. Other than that, he made Stefan sound too grumpy, jerkish and stubborn like King Hubert which we can’t have two kings having the same personality of being grumpy old jerks like Henry and Gordon from Thomas and Friends. It shows you why King Stefan is a very inconsistent character when being written because he’s supposed to sound compassionate, young and debonair Frenchman yet, Stefan tends to act like a rude, pompous, and bad tempered equivalent to Hubert. If Hans Conried’s role of a father of a princess were to be the case, it would be similar to King Triton, Chief Powhatan, Tiana’s father and Moana’s dad. Well thanks for NOTHING Taylor Holmes!
This was one of the best Ken Maynard movies I have ever seen! I thought I had seen every Western Ken Maynard ever made, but I had not seen this one, and it was really great! Thanks!
