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Thomas Burke (novel)
Winifred Dunn (continuity)
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Release Date:
28 November 1926 (USA) more
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Dainty Coleen Moore outdoes all her previous performances in delightful and piquant characterization of "Twick," the dancing girl of London's Lime-House! (original ad) more
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"Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot... more | add synopsis
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Plucky Colleen Moore wins love and stardom more (3 total)

Cast

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Colleen Moore ... Twink 'Twinkletoes' Minasi
Kenneth Harlan ... Chuck Lightfoot
Tully Marshall ... Dad Minasi
Gladys Brockwell ... Cissie Lightfoot
Lucien Littlefield ... Hank
Warner Oland ... Roseleaf
John Kolb ... Bill Carsides (as John Philip Kolb)
Julanne Johnston ... Lilac
William McDonald ... Police Inspector Territon
Dorothy Vernon ... Unknown Role
Ned Sparks ... Unknown Role
Dick Sutherland ... Unknown Role
Carl Stockdale ... Unknown Role
Aggie Herring ... Unknown Role
Harold Lockwood ... Unknown Role
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min | USA:85 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

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Plucky Colleen Moore wins love and stardom, 30 May 2001
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An example of an improbable genre, this silent musical, released for Christmas 1926, makes an agreeable light entertainment, at least until it collapses into a subplot of virginity threatened. As a vehicle for Colleen Moore, who personified flaming youth in a series of jazz-age comedies, it illustrates how this star's image sidestepped the sexual challenge of contemporaries like Clara Bow and Joan Crawford.

Here, in a project that she guided herself, she goes blonde as an aspiring dancer, devoted to her dear old Dad, tempted by an unhappily married local boxer, but targeted by a leering seducer. Throughout this plot, set in Cockney London, her working-class heroine remains good-hearted, relentlessly perky, yet fundamentally innocent. She leaps into a street melee, climbs ladders, rescues a child from a beating, and slugs a disbeliever in her stardom. (Throughout four dance numbers, Moore neither disgraces nor distinguishes herself.)

Director Charles Brabin works up some flavorful Limehouse atmosphere, staging a spirited street brawl for the opening. However, only one sequence- a romantic scene on a stairway when Moore realizes that she loves the boxer -reveals distinctive cinematic choices. The visual sophistication seen in Brabin's MASK OF FU MANCHU in 1932 is absent, apart from some prism shots to express a state of tipsiness.

Among the routinely sentimental figures, Gladys Brockwell hits a strikingly realistic note as the hero's snarling drunken wife, but the character of "Roseleaf", the producer who threatens Moore's virtue, has an anti-semitic subtext that seems borderline offensive (Warner Oland would redeem his role the next year by playing Al Jolson's rabbi father in THE JAZZ SINGER).

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