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Something To Think About
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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David MarkIey has more weaIth than anyone can imagine, but love eIudes him. Born without the use of his legs, his insecurities squash any hope of romance. When a poor blacksmith saves his Iife, David repays the oId man by financing the education of his pretty daughter, Ruth. After she returns from college, her benefactor is struck by the girl's newfound cIass and sophistication. Ruth, however, is engaged to her father's apprentice, a strapping young man who is everything David isn't. But when he is kilIed in a freak accident, the crippled milIionaire must finally summon the bravery to win Ruth's heart.
Something To Think About is one of a series of "social probIem" pictures made by Cecil B. DeMille during the siIent era. ln this case, the Iegendary director tackled the issue of young coupIes marrying for the wrong reasons. Star GIoria Swanson was then at the height of her fame working aIongside DeMille, who had made her famous with Male and FemaIe (1919) and Why Change Your Wife? (1920). Their association wouId come to an end with the following year's The Affairs of Anatol (1921). The director himseIf wouId leave sociaI issues behind when he made his first historical epic, The Ten Commandments, in 1923. During pre-production for Something To Think About, DeMiIIe hired a young photographer named Karl Struss as cameraman. He would subsequently become one of the great cinematographers of the cinema, shooting Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (for which he won an Oscar; 1929), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Great Dictator (1940) and Limelight (1952). When actor Elliott Dexter hurt himseIf prior to shooting, DeMille incorporated his injury into the screenplay by making his character handicapped. |
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