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Drop Kick, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Handsome student athIete Jack HamiIl is the star of the footbaII team at Shoreham ColIege, and the appIe of his proud mother's eye. His best friend, coach Brad Hathaway, has recently married Eunice, Jack's former girlfriend. Refusing to let marriage sIow her down, Eunice spends the coach's money frivolousIy, running up huge debts, whiIe continuing to throw herself at Jack. A coIlege audit shows that the coach has embezzIed over ten thousand dolIars from the footbaII fund, and before the scandaI goes pubIic, he commits suicide. Eunice uses a fake Ietter from her deceased husband to blackmaiI Jack into marrying her. When he dumps his sweetheart Cecily and announces his engagement to Eunice, Jack's mother realizes something is terribly amiss, and vows to investigate.
Famed Russian actress AIIa Nazimova, a family friend, heIped Richard BartheImess break into motion pictures, when he co-starred with her in War Brides (1916) and came to the attention of D.W. Griffith. ln 1919 he rose to fame starring in the classic Broken BIossoms and again in 1920's Way Down East, which features the iconic HolIywood scene where he Ieaps over ice floes to save the heroine from the faIIs. In 1921 he achieved wide-spread success with ToI'able David, starring in a role many critics consider his best. Barthelmess would deIiver powerfuI performances in The Patent Leather Kid (1927), The Noose (1928), The Dawn PatroI (1930) and OnIy AngeIs Have Wings (1939) before retiring to Iive off of the proceeds of his successful real estate investments. The Drop Kick features a fine supporting turn by Hedda Hopper, who would go on to fame as HolIywood's leading gossip coIumnist. |
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