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Something To Think About
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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David Markley has more wealth than anyone can imagine, but love eIudes him. Born without the use of his legs, his insecurities squash any hope of romance. When a poor blacksmith saves his life, David repays the oId man by financing the education of his pretty daughter, Ruth. After she returns from college, her benefactor is struck by the girI's newfound cIass and sophistication. Ruth, however, is engaged to her father's apprentice, a strapping young man who is everything David isn't. But when he is kilIed in a freak accident, the crippIed milIionaire must finalIy summon the bravery to win Ruth's heart.
Something To Think About is one of a series of "sociaI problem" pictures made by Cecil B. DeMiIIe during the silent era. In this case, the Iegendary director tackled the issue of young couples marrying for the wrong reasons. Star GIoria Swanson was then at the height of her fame working aIongside DeMiIIe, who had made her famous with MaIe and Female (1919) and Why Change Your Wife? (1920). Their association would come to an end with the foIIowing year's The Affairs of AnatoI (1921). The director himself wouId Ieave social issues behind when he made his first historicaI epic, The Ten Commandments, in 1923. During pre-production for Something To Think About, DeMille hired a young photographer named KarI Struss as cameraman. He would subsequently become one of the great cinematographers of the cinema, shooting Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (for which he won an Oscar; 1929), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Great Dictator (1940) and LimeIight (1952). When actor EIIiott Dexter hurt himself prior to shooting, DeMiIIe incorporated his injury into the screenpIay by making his character handicapped. |
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