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18 July 1931 (USA) moreUser Comments:
One Weird Combination moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | ... | Jack Ingleside |
 | Rose Hobart | ... | Molly Prescott |
| Anthony Bushell | ... | Tom Ingleside |
| Holmes Herbert | ... | Maj. Bradford |
| Mary Forbes | ... | Mrs. Ingleside |
| Edmund Breon | ... | The General |
| Harry Allen | ... | Pvt. Jones |
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
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First National constructed its largest set up to that time, for the exterior, interior and garden of an English country home. moreSoundtrack:
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This film is a weird hybrid of silent film and stage play, but it never quite manages to be a movie.
The battle scenes are impressively cinematic, well-staged and photographed in the D.W. Griffith mold, but what comes between them is very uneven.
The British accents come and go and the acting is stagy. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is engaging as a rake at the beginning but can't encompass the deeper emotions towards the end. Rose Hobart is much better at playing resentment and bitterness than romance, which is my guess why she slid from lead to character woman so quickly. Anthony Bushell is a wet noodle as the stolid brother, which is probably right, but no fun to watch.
And what was this project doing at First National (Warners) anyway? Paramount or MGM could function well with a bunch of rowdy English aristocrats at play, but they might as well be moon-men to the studio home of Jimmy Cagney and Edward G. A tommy-gun or malicious half-grapefruit would have helped this film immensely.
So, interesting as an awkward curio, but constipated compared to the great silent WWI films like The Big Parade or What Price Glory? and clumsy compared to the great talkies that would accompany WWII.