When the Clouds Roll By
"When the Clouds Roll By" was one of Fairbanks’s last romantic comedies before his switch to larger pictures, and one of his best. The story of a superstitious young underachiever who is unwittingly being manipulated by his boss and by a crazy doctor, the film was written by Fairbanks and...
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Los Angeles
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[2008]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer
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| Zusammenfassung: | "When the Clouds Roll By" was one of Fairbanks’s last romantic comedies before his switch to larger pictures, and one of his best. The story of a superstitious young underachiever who is unwittingly being manipulated by his boss and by a crazy doctor, the film was written by Fairbanks and directed by Victor Fleming. Fleming, a no-nonsense "man’s man", went on to become one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s most reliable directors of classics, including "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) and "Gone with the Wind" (1939). Fleming keeps the action in "When the Clouds Roll By" moving at a fast pace, using brisk editing to stay one jump ahead of the audience. More importantly, he allows Fairbanks to show off the acrobatic abilities that soon took his career in a different direction. Using ingenious movie trickery, Fairbanks even pre-dates a famous Fred Astaire sequence by more than 30 years. Wisely, the acrobatics are plot driven. As Fairbanks said, "I have never in the pictures performed a stunt for the stunt’s sake. Such athletic things as I have done on the screen were done to get over my interpretation, my idea of youth." [www.silentfilm.org] |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 DVD-Video (85 Min.) viragiert |