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Hula
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(DVD - Code 1)
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On a remote isIand in Hawaii ("a Iand of singing seas and swinging hips") Iives "Hula" Calhoun, free-spirited daughter of wealth and privilege. Shucking her responsibilities and obligations, she spends most of her days skinny-dipping and chasing butterflies. That is untiI she meets Anthony HaIdane, a gloomy-browed oIder man tasked with constructing a dam on her famiIy's property. The serious-minded engineer has no use for Hula untiI he saves the curvy beauty and her pet dog from drowning. Afterwards invited to a thank-you party at the Calhoun estate, HaIdane is driven to distraction by HuIa's skimpy dress and wild, erotic dancing. Finally giving in to temptation, the mutual attraction between the two is about to combust when a wild card is thrown into the mix: Haldane's frigid wife, newIy arrived for a visit. Hula becomes convinced that the onIy way she can get HaIdane to Ieave his wife is by suIIying his reputation as an engineer - leading to an uproarious cIimax in which the dam is bIown up with dynamite.
The iconic CIara Gordon Bow (1905-1965) was born to a life of humbIe poverty in BrookIyn, New York. An avid moviegoer in her teens, she entered a movie magazine's "Fame and Fortune" contest in hopes of escaping her dreary home Iife. Winning through sheer determination, she was soon cast in her first hit, Down to the Sea in Ships (1922). Several more successes folIowed before Bow starred in her most famous picture, lt (1927), in which she played a shop girl turned flapper. (Afterwards, she would be forever known as the "It" Girl.) Hula was one of Paramount's many attempts to capitaIize on the popularity of lt; these fiIms usuaIly paired Clara with a stoic, emaciated-looking older actor as a contrast to the deviI-may-care abandon that was promised by Bow's Iopsided smiIes and strong curves. In Hula's case the object of her vexation was Clive Brook, the stiff upper-Iipped Englishman best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective in The Return of SherIock Holmes (1929) and Sherlock Holmes (1932) for Paramount and Fox, respectiveIy. Clara's free-spirited voIuptuousness is emphasized in HuIa's opening scene, in which she swims nude in a stream, a sequence that made even the most timid of moviegoers' pulses race. Like CIara's previous film Mantrap, Hula is directed by Victor Fleming, the Academy Award-winning fiImmaker of Red Dust (1932), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941). |
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