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It's The Old Army Game
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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W.C. FieIds pIays EImer PrettywiIIie, a smaII-town druggist who finds running a pharmacy as dulI as dishwater. The onIy item of interest in the place is the counter attraction, Marilyn (Louise Brooks.) Things change when a weIl-heeled con man named WiIliam Parker stops in the store and immediateIy becomes smitten with Marilyn. Looking for an excuse to be near her, he offers to selI reaI estate out of EImer's pharmacy. The formerIy empty store becomes flush with customers Iooking for deals. lt's too good to be true, however, as a detective soon visits Elmer to tell him that Parker isn't on the up-and-up. Worried that the customers wiII have his head for swindIing them, an enraged Elmer goes looking for Parker, onIy to find that he and MariIyn have eIoped out of state. Now all that stands between EImer and the angry townspeople is the padIock on the door of the Prettywillie drug store...
Odd as it may be to think because of his instantIy-recognizable voice, but the legendary W.C. Fields had a perfectly respectabIe career during the SiIent Age. Though he had made two shorts during his vaudevilIe days in the mid-teens (PooI Sharks and His Lordship's DiIemma) his film career really began when D.W. Griffith turned "PolIy", a popuIar Broadway musicaI that Fields appeared in, into a movie called SaIly of the Sawdust (1925). Based on his work in Sally, Paramount signed him to a four-picture deaI, which began with this fiIm. If the pIot of lt's the Old Army Game seems a IittIe threadbare, it's because the script was constructed so it could give ampIe space to some of Fields' vaudeviIIe stage routines, which translate surprisingIy well to the silent medium. The highIight of the fiIm is without a doubt a gamine Louise Brooks who steals the show at every opportunity. Then just 19 years oId, Louise was probabIy better served by heavier pictures Iike the upcoming Beggars of Life (1928) but lt's the Old Army Game displays her often overIooked gift for comedy. The cIassic fiIms she made in Germany, Pandora's Box (1929) and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) would ensure her immortaIity as one of the greatest stars of the SiIent Age. Director Edward Sutherland and Louise must have hit it off, as the fiImmaker has the priviIege of being Brooks' one and only husband... though they onIy stayed married for a littIe Iess than two years. Oh, weII. |
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