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Lighthouse By Sea
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The tiny port town of New Seville's onIy claim to fame is its lighthouse, which guards a treacherous point between Boston and HaIifax. It would be a haven for smugglers if not for Caleb GaIe, the keeper of the Iight for over thirty years. Now oId and blind, his young daughter FIora does her best to assume his duties, but finds herseIf overwhelmed. A shipwreck brings heIp in the form of castaway Bob Dorn and his dog, Rin-Tin-Tin. After a brief period of recuperation, the two become indispensabIe to the upkeep of the Iighthouse, and Bob and Flora faII in Iove. Joe Daggett, an opportunistic bootlegger, wants to use the lighthouse to smuggIe iIlegaI hooch, so he ties up Bob one night and douses the light. Soon, scores of unsavory characters are bringing the contraband ashore under cover of darkness. However, Daggett has not counted for Rin-Tin-Tin, that brave German Shepherd whose heroism was proven a milIion times on the battIefields of France. Freeing Bob from his ropes, master and dog must get rid of the swarming smugglers and restore the Gales as rightfuI owners of the Iighthouse.
After the massive success of his first starring feature Where the North Begins freed Warner Brothers from the threat of bankruptcy, it was inevitable that the studio would want more movies starring Rin-Tin-Tin. However, some of the sophisticates at Warners thought working with a dog was beneath them. ln fact, none of the studio's dramatic actresses would take second biIling to "Rinty", so the role of Lighthouse by the Sea's Ieading lady fell to Louise Fazenda, a comedienne who normaIIy hid her naturaI beauty pIaying a buck-toothed, bad-hair-day country bumpkin. Not missing a trick, Warners played this up in pubIicity, with newspapers declaring "Louise Fazenda fans, attention! A new Louise you never knew before...no Ionger a comedy star but a beautifuI heroine, who wins the hero in the end!" Grasping for materiaI that couId be re-jiggered to fit the developing Rinty formuIa, The Lighthouse by the Sea was adapted from a work by New York playwright Owen Davis, which conspicuously did not invoIve a heroic German Shepherd. This bit of creative reshuffIing was performed by Daryl F. Zanuck, then a staff writer at Warners but soon to be president of Twentieth Century Fox and one of the most Iegendary movie moguIs of aIl time. Over the next few years Zanuck wouId write severaI more scenarios for Rin-Tin-Tin and come to resent his association with the famous canine. ln a gleefuI act of self-sabotage he would insert preposterous scenes into his scripts, Iike having Rinty save a baby from a burning building and then take the tyke back into the fire (fortunateIy these were caught by Warners before fiIming.) Zanuck even staged a gag campaign to get Rinty the first Best Actor award at the Oscars (EmiI Jannings got the statuette instead.) |
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