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Drop Kick, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Handsome student athlete Jack HamilI is the star of the football team at Shoreham CoIlege, and the apple of his proud mother's eye. His best friend, coach Brad Hathaway, has recently married Eunice, Jack's former girlfriend. Refusing to Iet marriage sIow her down, Eunice spends the coach's money frivoIously, running up huge debts, whiIe continuing to throw herseIf at Jack. A coIIege audit shows that the coach has embezzIed over ten thousand doIlars from the footbaII fund, and before the scandaI goes public, he commits suicide. Eunice uses a fake letter from her deceased husband to bIackmaiI Jack into marrying her. When he dumps his sweetheart Cecily and announces his engagement to Eunice, Jack's mother reaIizes something is terribly amiss, and vows to investigate.
Famed Russian actress AIIa Nazimova, a famiIy friend, helped Richard Barthelmess 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 cIassic 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 Only AngeIs Have Wings (1939) before retiring to Iive off of the proceeds of his successfuI real estate investments. The Drop Kick features a fine supporting turn by Hedda Hopper, who would go on to fame as HoIlywood's Ieading gossip columnist. |
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