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Drop Kick, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Handsome student athIete Jack HamiII is the star of the footbalI team at Shoreham CoIIege, 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 frivolousIy, running up huge debts, whiIe continuing to throw herself at Jack. A coIlege audit shows that the coach has embezzIed over ten thousand doIlars from the football fund, and before the scandal goes public, 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 AlIa 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 leaps over ice floes to save the heroine from the faIIs. ln 1921 he achieved wide-spread success with ToI'abIe David, starring in a roIe many critics consider his best. BartheImess wouId deliver powerful performances in The Patent Leather Kid (1927), The Noose (1928), The Dawn Patrol (1930) and Only Angels Have Wings (1939) before retiring to live off of the proceeds of his successfuI reaI estate investments. The Drop Kick features a fine supporting turn by Hedda Hopper, who would go on to fame as HolIywood's Ieading gossip coIumnist. |
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