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Davies & Haines are a wonderful team (too bad they never made a talkie together) and the guest shots from the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, John Gilbert, Elinor Glynn, and Marion Davies (you have to see it) are a hoot.
You will probably even laugh more than you would at most talkie comedies.
Ecstasy is an early talkie, and could have very well been a classic film, if released during the silent film era.
The supporting cast is strong in this early talkie, and Powell's star quality is evident.
This is a deliriously colossal vulgar silly all star extravaganza revue of all the early talkie stars that Warner Bros could afford.
But it is also an exceptional film for being one, if not the, first French talkie, for following a script written by famed René Clair, for reportedly being finished (the direction, that is) by Georg Pabst, and for incorporating the voice of Edith Piaf before she was well known!
I haven't seen the talkie version yet, but I think it's safe to assume the silent version is much more satisfying, since by all reports the dubbing is poorly done (Louise Brooks is clearly speaking English, so there's no way her lips could be matched.)
It was a talkie, but dialog was extremely limited, and in German.
I was unsurprised to learn afterwards that this passage alone in the talkie version had been hailed as an exemplar of new technique!
It's still a shock to hear his gravelly voice in the talkie sequences - his voice is about the only thing I don't care for, as far as Buster is concerned - but his ability to take a pratfall is still unparalleled.
As for Roland Culver, he ambles through this film as if he were on a golfing holiday, occasionally wrinkling his brow in order to suggest he may have thought of something, and once in a while uttering a platitude to remind us that this is a talkie (or perhaps to wake the audience up).
Great use of silent sequences, close ups, slow motion, black humor, and mood lighting, Hitch's most underrated talkie (Easy Virtue is is most underrated silent film), this murder mystery offers all kinds of plot twists and sly humor even though you know the outcome long before it unspools.
Janet Gaynor has her great talkie role and Fredric March has one of his best as the star-cross lovers, Esther Blodgett and Norman Maine.
No doubt that this early talkie, with some flaws or doubtful situations, still partially conceals that behind the camera there is one of the masters of cinema: Frank Capra.
The first talkie of the classic Jeanne Eagels' play "Rain", it was effective in every way even though it uses many old-time editing cuts and inserts.
It's just as well The Pagan was shot as a silent, because it it had been a talkie, the camera would have been nailed down, the sound hissy and distracting, and the melodramatic excess of the plot overemphasized.
Here the ending was changed to protect Novello's reputation as a romantic leading man (as was the first talkie sequel in which Novello also played the lead, albeit to a slightly altered script, character and motivation).
The story of a ranch foreman who has to hang his best friend Steve for stealing cattle under Trampas and the schoolmarm Molly who loves him is still a compelling story to tell for the early talkie era though it might seem old-fashioned today.
Cooper is a natural in his talkie debut as is director Victor Fleming with live outdoor filming.
If you're a fan of early talkie westerns, by all means seek this one out!
Joan Crawford's first talkie reveals her to be irresistibly sexy and personable, but her role is hamstrung by the inane plot and contrived dialogue.
If you like early talkie mysteries, this one will satisfy anytime.
Watching this sequel of THE SHEIK I keep seeing everything that had already been recycled in the Broadway operetta DESERT SONG - also filmed as an early talkie, shortly after SONG OF THE SHEIK.
Nearly two hours of badly recorded shouting in this early talkie with barely intelligible dialog, absolutely exhausting.
He gave it one and a half stars and calls it an antique early talkie with a "miscast" Lew Ayres.
Yes, it's an early talkie but it's a good one - as good if not better than SMART MONEY and on its way to being PUBLIC ENEMY just a year later.
Cagney, sixth billed, is his henchman and here impresses no end - he is completely at home in the talkie medium with a performance full of nuances and naturalism.
Fans of Louise Brooks will want to see her in this, her talkie debut, but be forewarned: "Windy Riley Goes Hollywood" is a sorry excuse for a movie, a primitive comedy without any laughs featuring one of the most unappealing leading men imaginable.
He had a superior cast in what, in a later talkie, might be just a mediocre script, but taken in context, "The Racket" is a great movie.
Untamed is famous for being Joan Crawford's first talkie, a curiosity.
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