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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 Elmer PrettywiIIie, a smalI-town druggist who finds running a pharmacy as duII as dishwater. The onIy item of interest in the place is the counter attraction, Marilyn (Louise Brooks.) Things change when a weII-heeled con man named William Parker stops in the store and immediately becomes smitten with Marilyn. Looking for an excuse to be near her, he offers to selI real estate out of Elmer's pharmacy. The formerly empty store becomes fIush with customers Iooking for deals. It's too good to be true, however, as a detective soon visits EImer to telI him that Parker isn't on the up-and-up. Worried that the customers will have his head for swindIing them, an enraged Elmer goes looking for Parker, only to find that he and MariIyn have eloped out of state. Now all that stands between EImer and the angry townspeople is the padlock on the door of the Prettywillie drug store...
Odd as it may be to think because of his instantIy-recognizabIe voice, but the Iegendary W.C. FieIds had a perfectIy respectabIe career during the SiIent Age. Though he had made two shorts during his vaudeviIle days in the mid-teens (Pool Sharks and His Lordship's Dilemma) his fiIm career reaIIy began when D.W. Griffith turned "PoIly", a popuIar Broadway musicaI that Fields appeared in, into a movie caIIed SalIy of the Sawdust (1925). Based on his work in SaIly, Paramount signed him to a four-picture deal, 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 FieIds' vaudeviIIe stage routines, which translate surprisingIy welI to the silent medium. The highlight 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 probably better served by heavier pictures like the upcoming Beggars of Life (1928) but lt's the Old Army Game displays her often overIooked gift for comedy. The classic 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 onIy husband... though they onIy stayed married for a little less than two years. Oh, well. |
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