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| 1. The Broadway Melody Director: Harry Beaumont | |
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The film is somewhat dated, but don't forget it is over 70 years old. However, that notwithstanding, two songs, the title song and You Were Meant for Me, still hold up well. It is worth watching for for at least its historic value.
If you've got a love for old movies you just may love this.(vo-dody-oh-do!)
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| 2. The Broadway Melody Director: Harry Beaumont | |
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The film is somewhat dated, but don't forget it is over 70 years old. However, that notwithstanding, two songs, the title song and You Were Meant for Me, still hold up well. It is worth watching for for at least its historic value.
If you've got a love for old movies you just may love this.(vo-dody-oh-do!)
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| 3. Our Dancing Daughters Director: Harry Beaumont | |
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"Our Dancing Daughters", relates the interwoven lives of three young women that are typical examples of Jazz Age "Flappers". Dangerous Diana (Joan Crawford) is a well heeled young socialite who leds a frantic life of dancing and hard partying. Very extroverted and socially mobile Diana's wild exterior actually conceals a kindly nature and a genuine care for the feelings of others. Her friend Ann (Anita Page in her most stunning performance),is the exact opposite in both appearance and personality. Outwardly demure and childlike, this facade actually conceals a selfish and nasty character who will go to whatever lengths are needed to get what she wants. When Diana begins to get serious on wealthy Ben Blaine (Johnny Mack Brown) Ann, jealous of the relationship also sets her sights on him . Because of Diana's flighty outward appearance and love of flirting innocently with the other boys in their party group, Ben gets the impression that she is not serious about their relationship and ends up falling for the devious machinations of the calculating Ann who plays up her innocent loving facade when with him. Soon they are married however the marriage is not a happy one as Ann's true character very quickly emerges and totally disillusions Ben who begins to realise that Diana is the girl he still wants. Conducting affairs behind his back and embarrassing Ben with her drinking and unexceptable behaviour at the social gatherings of friends Beatrice (Dorothy Sebastian and Norman (Nils Asther) she suddenly begins to accuse Ben and Diana of resuming their old relations. Diana indeed realises what she has lost in the decent Ben but is appalled by Ann's vicious slander attack on her. After a particulary nasty argument Anne is killed falling drunk down a flight of stairs and only in the light of day and with what has happened do Ben and Diana finally see a way to beginning a new life together. Debate has often arisen from whether Anita Page in the showy supporting role of the nasty Anne actually stole the film from Joan Crawford playing the fast living good girl Diana. In my belief both women are wonderful in their respectice roles and combined with Dorothy Sebastian's solid but less showy role as Bea make a highly successful acting trio. So popular was this film on release with acclaim handed out to all three women that they were reteamed in two more films "Our Modern Maidens", and "Our Blushing Brides" which contrary to popular belief were not direct sequels to this story but merely had similiar titles with different characters and storylines. Joan Crawford is the very essence of the frantic pre stock market crash high living socialite in this film. Her energy in the famous Charleston scenes is depicted at an almost exhausting level and Joan is also excellent is depicting the quietier moments of the decent but bubbly party girl. Anita Page who gave many fine silent film performances in the late 20's really is excellent as the nasty Ann and her confrontation scenes with Diana often make me wonder why this dramatic powerhouse of an actress didn't enjoy more success at MGM when the sound era fully arrived. "Our Dancing Daughters", also belongs to that most interesting group of films termed "transitional talkies". Generally made around the 1928- early 1929 period when sound was really beginning to come in with full force, the film has no spoken dialogue but includes numerous sound efects like party noises or a car starting up. They make for an interesting type of presentation that only lasted a few more months before sound came fully into Hollywood movie making. I consider "Our Dancing Daughters", to be an extremely important film on a number of different levels. Any student of the legendary Joan Crawford should include this excellent film in their collections as it reveals for the first time the real acting abilities of Joan Crawford when finally she is given a role with some meat on it. It's place in the transition between silent films and talkies is also important as it was one of the last great silent efforts in the late twenties and preserved forever how sound was gradually incorporated into MGM's major productions that year. Any film historian or lover of good drama is bound to get alot out of "Our Dancing Daughters" and for me the real plus is the wonderful acting of Joan Crawford and Anita Page in two roles for which they are still justly acclaimed.
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| 4. Our Modern Maidens Director: Jack Conway | |
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| 5. Free and Easy Director: Edward Sedgwick | |
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The other posters have given good summaries of the overall "plot" or lack thereof, but the individual moments of the Bus-man do stand out. The scene where during the studio cop chases Bus, our hero sits on a dynamite plunger with the obvious results is a howl. Bus' song and dance "Free and Easy" (thus the title) is quite amusing, as one rarely sees our man in a song-and-dance setting. The scene where the director tries to give Bus some vocal coaching, that results in a routine that predates "Who's On First" is a bit odd for the Bus man. Buster is funny because of his reactions to his surroundings, not because he is stupid, so this scene is sort of a let down, as is the previously described ending, which leaves the viewer with a nasty aftertaste. So this is largey a mixed bag, interesting mainly for historical reasons. It's important to remember that generally speaking, movies from 1929-30 were still in a transition period from silents to sound, so films from that era (like this) seem very stilted and awkward to modern audiences.
However, the ending is a disaster that seriously mars the entire film. Just when you think a great "Buster gets the girl ending" is ready to happen (as Buster becomes a "movie star" and proposes to "the girl"). The other guy gets the girl while Buster looks on like a sad clown. MGM strikes again and the beginning of the end of Buster's great career has arrived.
There are two parts to this movie. The first half has an almost documentary feel to it, basically because of MGM's primitive use of sound in its infancy at that time, coupled with Buster's natural, unphony dialogue spoken in a charmingly deep mid-western accent that must have caused 1930 audiences to gasp after hearing it for the first time. There are scenes so natural of Buster trying to explain himself out of trouble and one where he's unsuccessfully trying to park his rented car in Hollywood parking lots that make the viewers feel like they're watching Buster's real life, instead of a scripted movie. The first half shows a lot of Buster being chased by a movie studio cop, slapped at, yelled at, roughed up, beaten, and generally being treated like he's the most disrespected person on the planet. The second half is interesting because 1930 audiences got to see Buster use his musical comedy gifts for the first time. Buster gets to play the part of a king in a comic opera. He sings, he dances. He's good at it. Although the musical sequences are kind of hokey by today's standards, I think they were pretty much what audiences at that time were getting from the Broadway stage, radio, and vaudeville, and MGM was desperate to make up for lost time with the arrival of sound films by displaying them here. In one comic sequence, after Buster walks across a soundstage on a camel, he gets off the camel and mumbles "I'd walk a mile to get that, too". This line will leave a 21st century audience questioning the meaning of that phrase, but in the 1920's, there was a popular advertising campaign for Camel cigarettes in which everyone in their ads was saying "I'd walk a mile for a Camel". Film critics would not rank "Free and Easy" as high as Buster's classic silent features, but I like it about as much as any of those.
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| 6. The Sidewalks of New York Director: Jules White, Zion Myers | |
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One of the best scenes in the film is where Buster gets beat up a lot while trying to teach the youngsters wrestling and boxing, something his character knows nothing about, and borrows techniques he used in the 1926 silent "Battling Butler". His partners include his co-star Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards (who growls at him), and what is probably a 1931 junior wrestling champ hired for this film, a guy named Baloney (who really shows him a thing or two). Another good scene is where Buster and Ike put on a show to raise money for the neighborhood. Bus dresses up like a gypsy girl and flirts with Ike, who's playing the part of a Russian Cossack. Later, he appears in drag again when he's mistaken for a crook named the Blonde Bandit and appears in a dress that struck me as looking like it was borrowed from Joan Crawford's dressing room. Buster disliked "Sidewalks of New York" the most out of all the features he made at MGM between 1928-33, but it's really not that bad. The pacing moves along without dull moments, and it made a lot of money at the box office, probably because the subject matter attracted kids. But it wasn't up to his standard of quality entertainment (he knew he could do better). ... Read more | |
| 7. Skyscraper Souls Director: Edgar Selwyn | |
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| 8. Sunset After Dark Director: Mark J. Gordon | |
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| 9. Creaturealm: From the Dead Director: Ron Ford, Kevin J. Lindenmuth | |
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| 10. Hollywood Mortuary Director: Ron Ford | |
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| 11. Prosperity:The Definitive System Director: Sam Wood | |
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