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8 April 1929 (USA) moreTagline:
Warner Brothers' spectacular SINGING successPlot Keywords:
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Funniest movie I've ever seen! moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | John Boles | ... | The Red Shadow |
| Carlotta King | ... | Margot |
| Louise Fazenda | ... | Susan |
| Johnny Arthur | ... | Benny Kidd |
| Edward Martindel | ... | General Bierbeau |
| Jack Pratt | ... | Pasha |
| Roberto E. Guzmán | ... | Sid El Kar |
| Otto Hoffman | ... | Hasse |
| Marie Wells | ... | Clementina |
| John Miljan | ... | Captain Fontaine |
| Del Elliott | ... | Rebel |
 | Myrna Loy | ... | Azuri |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Lester Cole | ||
| Peggy Dale | ||
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123 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishAspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoFilming Locations:
Buttercup Dunes, Imperial County, California, USAFun Stuff
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In advance of the feature, a separately filmed trailer, Vitaphone production reel #2812, was released, featuring John Boles who describes the story and introduces the other cast members to the audience. moreFAQ
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I'm not sure how funny and campy this film was meant to be when it was filmed in 1929, but today, watching it in 2003, I thought this movie hysterical. I was laughing so hard, I cried. The gesticulations, the chorus scenes, the bits by Myrna Loy as a "half-caste" woman, the kiss scenes, the singing, all were incredibly funny. Even my kids were laughing, and my husband was doing a Red Shadow imitation and throwing his arms into the air singing.
There is something to be said for merriment, and so even though this film is technologically backward today it does deserve a higher mark than the current "4" I see here as the average.
I'm a big John Boles fan, but he was way too adorable here as The Red Shadow to be taken seriously, and honestly he looked uncomfortable before the cameras. He had a lovely singing voice too, which sadly wasn't preserved well by the recording technology of the time. Not sure how many early Technicolor sequences would have improved this film in its original format, but it would be nice if someone, sometime could restore it.
"Oh Pierre, you shouldn't have come!" :)