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12 March 1927 (USA)
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François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot. full summary | add synopsis
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Two hams and some hard-boiled eggs
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(Complete credited cast)| John Barrymore | ... | François Villon | |
| Conrad Veidt | ... | King Louis XI | |
| Marceline Day | ... | Charlotte de Vauxcelles | |
| Lawson Butt | ... | Duke of Burgundy | |
| Henry Victor | ... | Thibault d'Aussigny | |
| Slim Summerville | ... | Jehan | |
| Mack Swain | ... | Nicholas | |
| Angelo Rossitto | ... | Beppo - the Dwarf | |
| Nigel De Brulier | ... | Astrologer | |
| Lucy Beaumont | ... | Villon's mother | |
| Otto Matieson | ... | Olivier (as Otto Mattiesen) | |
| Jane Winton | ... | The Abbess | |
| Rose Dione | ... | Margot | |
| Bertram Grassby | ... | Duke of Orleans | |
| Dick Sutherland | ... | Tristan l'Hermite |
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99 min
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Silent (musical score)
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Canada:G (Ontario)
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Film debut of Dickie Moore.
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François Villon:
Every man has two souls - one for the world, and one for the woman he loves.
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Version of The Oubliette (1914)
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Superb silent version of the story of Francois Villon. Although remade in the thirties as IF I WERE KING, with Frank Lloyd directing, Preston Sturges scripting and Ronald Colman starring, this version is even better. Barrymore, with a cohort of comedians, plays the comic fool and the wine-depressed Villon with a verve that Colman could not match. The photography is startling in its beauty and innovation and the supporting cast, particularly Conrad Veidt in his American premiere, the incredibly beautiful Marceline Day, and the supporting comics, Slim Summerville and Hank Mann, steal every scene they are in.
It is a shame that Barrymore did so few first-rate comedies. Among his sound films, only his lead in TWENTIETH CENTURY and his supporting role in MIDNIGHT can compare to this, and those stand up only because of his superb voice. In this silent movie, Barrymore must tell his tale without benefit of words, and he does so, alternately hilariously unrecognizable as the King of the Fools and tenderly as Villon in love. He even gets to leap around in the swashbuckling style of Fairbanks, most convincingly. He also lets his supporting cast have their share of glory, capering in this ensemble work like any talented comic of the era.
Finally, a brief word about Alan Crosland, a director known today only for directing the first talking feature, THE JAZZ SINGER in the same year this was released. Crosland was a careful, innovative, delightfully original director, and it is a shame that more of his works are not known. Perhaps this movie, far more interesting as a movie than his best-known work, will be your introduction to his other talents. If so, you could do far worse.