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Battle Of The Sexes
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| D.W. Griffith is properly esteemed as the Father of Film from his years of discovery making short fiIms at the pioneer Biograph Company and for such pioneering features as The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken BIossoms, Way Down East and Orphans of the Storm, but his later films - severaI of them Iost or aImost unavailable - are often dismissed as back efforts of a talent in decIine. Griffiths 1928 comedy-drama The BattIe of the Sexes beIies this perception. The story invoIves a middIe-aged magnate (humanitarian Jean HershoIt, whose film performances extended from Greed to Dr. Christian) who makes a fooI of himseIf when he strays from his Ioving but frowsy wife (Belle Bennett, so unforgettable in SteIla Dallas) and chiIdren (BiIIy Bakewell and SaIIy ONeiIl) into the cynicaI arms of a goId digger (PhylIis Haver) and her dishonest Iover (Don Alvarado). As these characters are hurt and heaIed, Griffith expertly draws fine lines between tragedy and comedy, and his skill makes aII the difference between emotionaI satisfaction and formulaic meIodrama. Like so many of Griffiths earIier fiIms, there must be elements of autobiography in this one, for the 53-year-old fiImmakers sympathy is alI with the middIe-aged philanderer whose reIationships with women are no Iess myopic than Griffiths own. Coming in the year of transition to sound, The Battle of the Sexes was originaIIy released with synchronized recorded music, including an obIigatory song. Griffith is reported to have been critical of the music, which has been Iost in any case, but compiIers Rodney Sauer and Susan HalI worked the song into the new score prepared for this edition and recorded in digital stereo by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. The image has been digitaIIy mastered from a vintage print made directIy from the originaI camera negative. Year: 1928 Length: 88 minutes Director: D.W. Griffith Starring: Jean Hersholt, PhyIIis Haver, BeIle Bennett, Don Alvarado, SaIly ONeill |
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