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Lights of Old Broadway

  • 19251925
  • 1h 10m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
532
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Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
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Lights of Old Broadway (1925) is a drama film directed by Monta Bell, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Mari... Read allLights of Old Broadway (1925) is a drama film directed by Monta Bell, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel, and is an adaptation of the play The Merry Wives of Gotham by ... Read allLights of Old Broadway (1925) is a drama film directed by Monta Bell, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel, and is an adaptation of the play The Merry Wives of Gotham by Laurence Eyre (USA). The film has color sequences using tinting, Technicolor, and the Hand... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
532
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    • Monta Bell
    • Laurence Eyre(play "Merry Wives of Gotham; or Two and Sixpence")
    • Joseph Farnham(titles)
    • Carey Wilson(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Marion Davies
    • Conrad Nagel
    • Frank Currier
    • Monta Bell
    • Laurence Eyre(play "Merry Wives of Gotham; or Two and Sixpence")
    • Joseph Farnham(titles)
    • Carey Wilson(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Marion Davies
    • Conrad Nagel
    • Frank Currier
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    • 2User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Marion Davies, Eleanor Lawson, and Charles McHugh in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Marion Davies in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Frank Currier and Charles McHugh in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Marion Davies in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Buck Black in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Buddy Smith in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
    Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel in Lights of Old Broadway (1925)

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    Marion Davies
    Marion Davies
    • Fely…
    Conrad Nagel
    Conrad Nagel
    • Dirk de Rhonde
    Frank Currier
    Frank Currier
    • Lambert de Rhonde
    George K. Arthur
    George K. Arthur
    • Andy
    Charles McHugh
    • Shamus O'Tandy
    Eleanor Lawson
    • Mrs. O'Tandy
    Julia Swayne Gordon
    Julia Swayne Gordon
    • Mrs. de Rhonde
    Matthew Betz
    Matthew Betz
    • 'Red' Hawkins
    Wilbur Higby
    • Fowler
    Bodil Rosing
    Bodil Rosing
    • Widow Gorman
    George Bunny
    • Tony Pastor
    George Harris
    George Harris
    • Joe Weber
    Bernard Berger
    • Lew Fields
    J. Frank Glendon
    J. Frank Glendon
    • Thomas A. Edison
    • (as Frank Glendon)
    Buck Black
    • Young Teddy Roosevelt
    Karl Dane
    Karl Dane
    • Roosevelt's Father
    William De Vaull
    • De Rhonde's Butler
    Mary Gordon
    Mary Gordon
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
      • Monta Bell
      • Laurence Eyre(play "Merry Wives of Gotham; or Two and Sixpence")
      • Joseph Farnham(titles)
      • Carey Wilson(adaptation) (screenplay)
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      A complete print, originally belonging to Marion Davies, is in the collection of the Library of Congress. It also includes the 2 original 2-strip Technicolor sequences and the Handschiegl insert.

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    9/10
    Wonderful vehicle for Davies! Loads of fun, well done on all accounts.
    "Lights of Old Broadway" (1925) stars Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel. Davies plays twins whose mother dies on the way over to America on a ship, and now the twins are separated by being given to two different families, one a very poor Irish immigrating family and the other a very wealthy American banking family. Based on the stage play "The Merry Wives of Gotham", this is told in rip-snorting style, with Davies as the Irish lassie now a star in an earthy burlesque (not strip!) joint in a tough section of NYC around 1870. She's also (as her twin) the respectable, slightly uppity daughter of banker Frank Currier and his wife Julia Swayne Gordon. Eventually the two meet, of course, but do they ever figure out who they are? Is it necessary that they do? It's the DNA and how it makes the girls behave when together that counts!

    Conrad Nagel plays the son of banker Currier, and he falls madly in love with the poor squatter, the Irish lass Fely O'Tandy. Of course this starts a rumpus which drives the wheels of the film; that, and the fact that Currier wishes to drive off the squatters, all the Irish and other immigrant souls who've squatted on a certain piece of land. Of course, too, the O'Tandy's live on that land.

    Wonderful bit of hokum! It's loads of fun watching Davies and her Irish father, Charles McHugh, battle their way through all of the plotting before them. This new release from Kino-Lorber is superb! Tinted, with at least one handschiegl scene and Technicolor in a couple of others, this is an absolutely beautiful restoration. Very highly recommended!

    For the record, you'll love seeing Teddy Roosevelt as a young boy, Tom Edison trying to market his "sound machine", and all the references to lighting the streets of the downtown city with electric arc lamps as opposed to gas. The last figures prominently in the plot of the film. Tony Pastor and Weber and Fields are also integrated into the plot. If you look closely, you'll see Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, and even Mary Gordon in small or insignificant parts. Matthew Betz has one scene as the leader of a plot against those who would move the squatters from their property.
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      • November 1925 (United States)
      • United States
      • None
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Cosmopolitan Productions
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • 1 hour 10 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Silent

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