Sat July 27, 2013
What Price Glory, Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1926)
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at Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
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Archival Print!
Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano
Released a year after the very successful The Big Parade, What Price Glory is Walsh’s first high-caliber war film and it’s camouflaged beneath the same antiwar sentiment as the former. Unusually gritty battle scenes wallow in the muck of trenches even Kubrick would be proud of. But the real terrain to be taken is that of masculine rivalry. In roles they would reprise three times, Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe begin as suitors to the very suitable Dolores Del Rio, until the dreary realities of war arrive. Adapted from a notably bawdy play, lip-readers had a field day as McLaglen and Lowe dropped some profane bombshells.
• Written by James T. O’Donohoe, based on the play by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Photographed by Barney McGill, John Marta, John Smith. With Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio, William V. Mong. (120 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation, permission Criterion
Pictures/20th Century Fox)
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Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano
Released a year after the very successful The Big Parade, What Price Glory is Walsh’s first high-caliber war film and it’s camouflaged beneath the same antiwar sentiment as the former. Unusually gritty battle scenes wallow in the muck of trenches even Kubrick would be proud of. But the real terrain to be taken is that of masculine rivalry. In roles they would reprise three times, Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe begin as suitors to the very suitable Dolores Del Rio, until the dreary realities of war arrive. Adapted from a notably bawdy play, lip-readers had a field day as McLaglen and Lowe dropped some profane bombshells.
• Written by James T. O’Donohoe, based on the play by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Photographed by Barney McGill, John Marta, John Smith. With Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio, William V. Mong. (120 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation, permission Criterion
Pictures/20th Century Fox)
Archival Print!
Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano
Released a year after the very successful The Big Parade, What Price Glory is Walsh’s first high-caliber war film and it’s camouflaged beneath the same antiwar sentiment as the former. Unusually gritty battle scenes wallow in the muck of trenches even Kubrick would be proud of. But the real terrain to be taken is that of masculine rivalry. In roles they would reprise three times, Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe begin as suitors to the very suitable Dolores Del Rio, until the dreary realities of war arrive. Adapted from a notably bawdy play, lip-readers had a field day as McLaglen and Lowe dropped some profane bombshells.
• Written by James T. O’Donohoe, based on the play by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Photographed by Barney McGill, John Marta, John Smith. With Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio, William V. Mong. (120 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation, permission Criterion
Pictures/20th Century Fox)
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Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano
Released a year after the very successful The Big Parade, What Price Glory is Walsh’s first high-caliber war film and it’s camouflaged beneath the same antiwar sentiment as the former. Unusually gritty battle scenes wallow in the muck of trenches even Kubrick would be proud of. But the real terrain to be taken is that of masculine rivalry. In roles they would reprise three times, Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe begin as suitors to the very suitable Dolores Del Rio, until the dreary realities of war arrive. Adapted from a notably bawdy play, lip-readers had a field day as McLaglen and Lowe dropped some profane bombshells.
• Written by James T. O’Donohoe, based on the play by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Photographed by Barney McGill, John Marta, John Smith. With Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio, William V. Mong. (120 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation, permission Criterion
Pictures/20th Century Fox)
show less
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