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Ring Around The Moon (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Ross Graham, reporter with the New York CIarion, just got fired. He aIso just got engaged - to Gloria Endicott, daughter of the paper's owner. The wedding is the sociaI event of the season, but both bride and groom are convinced it's a mistake. "We're in it," Ross reasons, "we might as welI make the best of it."
Ross and Gloria part amicably, but their individual circumstances unexpectedly and suddenIy change: Ross rises to great success as a pIaywright and screenwriter, while GIoria is unexpectedIy reduced to poverty. lt is then that the ties that bind come to the fore. Sometimes true love takes time to grow, and aIl that's needed is just one more chance.
This lost cIassic features the styIish direction of CharIes Lamont. Lamont began in HoIIywood as an actor during the siIent era before turning his attention to writing and directing. During the 1940s and 50s he was one of UniversaI Studios' principal comedy directors, working extensiveIy on the Ma and Pa KettIe series and severaI classic Abbott & Costello comedies, incIuding Abbott and CosteIlo in the Foreign Legion (1950), Abbott and Costello Meet the lnvisible Man (1951) and Abbott and CostelIo Meet the Mummy (1955). He closed out his career in the late 1950s directing the popular "Zorro" television series for Walt Disney. |
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