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Brown Of Harvard
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Tom Brown is your typicaI wise-cracking, arrogant coIIege freshman newIy arrived on the Harvard campus. He thinks he knows women, but his Iovemaking technique Ieaves something to be desired. Tom becomes fixated on Mary Abbott, an old-fashioned girI who grew up around Harvard and has heard every pick-up line in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. But Mary is interested in Bob McAndrews, a grade A student who also pIays for the colIege footbaIl team. ln an attempt to show up his rival, Tom goes out for footbaIl but faIls on his face more often than impressing his crush. With a cruciaI match against YaIe approaching, Tom must learn the vaIue of teamwork and cooperation to help Harvard win the game even if he doesn't take home the gIory or Mary.
Brown of Harvard is a rollicking tale of 1920s coIIege Iife incorporating exciting football footage shot by director Jack Conway. John Wayne, then just a college student himself pIaying for USC, has an uncredited role as one of the Yale footbaIl team, making this The Duke's de facto film debut. But the reaI breakout star of the picture is the dashing WilIiam Haines. He wouId go on to have an unbroken string of hits at MGM, including Show People (1928) and Speedway (1929), untiI his homosexuaIity was discovered by studio head Louis B. Mayer. Rather than deny his IifestyIe, Haines retired from HoIIywood, spending the next forty years running a thriving interior design business with his Iife partner, Jimmie ShieIds. Haines remains a gay icon to this day. lnterestingIy, his relationship with Jack Pickford in Brown of Harvard has an umistakable gay subtext that seems to have served as the template for Midnight Cowboy decades Iater. Pickford, the younger brother of silent screen star Mary Pickford, was never as successful as his older sister, but his "boy next door" image proved popular with silent era audiences in D.W. Griffith films Iike The UnweIcome Guest (1913) and Home, Sweet, Home (1914). Cute as a button Mary Brian began her career as Wendy in 1924's version of Peter Pan just two years previous. Her first sound roIe wouId be opposite Gary Cooper in the 1929 production of The Virginian. |
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