"Classic Hollywood Movies" features Films from the Golden Era, remastered and restored from the Festival Films Library. Festival Films was founded in 1976 by Ron Hall. Ron Hall's unique interests are reflected in some of the Classic Hollywood playlists: Lost Gospel Films, Silent Era Classics with new music tracks, Lost&Rare films, Movie Memory Time, Weird but Fun and others.
Funh fact: the name of the annual celebration in Vegas was "Helldorado" but censors wouldn't allow it and they had to take out an "L." IN fact, you can see the correct spelling on one of the floats in the final scene of the movie.
THANK YOU very much for uploading this silent classic for us to enjoy! From Universal studios towards the end of the silent era. I was brought her by Karie Bible's "Hollywood Kitchen" online series. The most recent episode focused on Laura La Plante. What a lovely lady & talented actress!
These old movies remind me that the world of my youth is now only fantasy. One aspect I miss the least is the choking conformity. My parents valued conformity above everything, which bemused my grandparents as much as anyone in my disillusioned generation. I always figured it was the result of a militarized society during WWII, when uniformity in the population was as important as uniformity in machined parts. Or since conformity was a major feature or communist ideology, maybe it reflected a progressive egalitarian ideal. Now it's occurred to me that these movies almost exclusively established my parents' cultural views, and their rigid attitudes may reflect nothing more than an effort by Hollywood to cut costs by stylizing the entire cast identically. That approach doesn't work very well in this movie. (SPOILER!) At the climax, the mystery turns out to be a couple of unrelated character deceptions. The story is good. But it was lost on me because I can't differentiate between any of the characters.
The story is unrealistic. If a friend of the D.A. decided to set you up, then you're going to be screwed. My dad worked for the D.A. It's who you know.
My God. Rudolph Valentino died just one year before sound was added to films. "The Jazz Singer" was released in October of 1927 with sound. Damn! He just missed it. Damn! Damn! Damn!
This is the only soundtracked version I can find online, I wish the aspect ratio was correct. The remastered version of the video is just on wikipedia, though, so I've started playing this for audio in one window while watching the better quality version in another. Still, so grateful to have found one with a decent soundtrack!
Too bad Cab Calloway's number is mostly cut out of this print - this is only half the song, and all of the dancing is gone. Maybe this print was for the racist South of the U.S.?
If you watch closely, after the final big crash, you can see someone running on the track that looks to be in a long coat...this was actually the director as the crash was really quite bad (And unscripted) …many horses were killed and I think one of the stunt drivers was killed as well...though I'm not 100% about that part...a stunt driver did die during the filming of the race though.
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While Joel McCrea was just on this set, Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong were shuttling back-and-forth between sets at RKO, making another movie for Schoedsack and Cooper. Wray would put on a blonde wig and monkey around with "King Kong" for awhile, then head back over and shoot this movie. Some sets were used in both films. Both were big hits for RKO in 1932-33, though this one ended up being more forgotten over time.
