The Salvation Hunters (1925)
Country: US
Technical: bw 65m (24fps)
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin
Synopsis:
Three down and outs, a man, a woman and a young boy, hang around the docks watching the dredger dig an interminable hole in the L.A. harbour. Then, one day, they see a black cat and decide to up and off.
Review:
A film about mud, and more mud; well, almost. Surely the longest sustained metaphor in the history of the cinema, and a brave experiment for a Hollywood debut, especially in 1925. The 'significance' of it all is repeatedly spelt out by the portentous titles, and this must certainly be the most notorious film for having its characters standing up, sitting down, but basically doing as little as possible. The producer, in the lead role, strikes some surprisingly 'Method' looks and poses; the rest is pure Germanic momentousness of the slow, brooding kind, with one decadent character at least to liven things up.
Country: US
Technical: bw 65m (24fps)
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin
Synopsis:
Three down and outs, a man, a woman and a young boy, hang around the docks watching the dredger dig an interminable hole in the L.A. harbour. Then, one day, they see a black cat and decide to up and off.
Review:
A film about mud, and more mud; well, almost. Surely the longest sustained metaphor in the history of the cinema, and a brave experiment for a Hollywood debut, especially in 1925. The 'significance' of it all is repeatedly spelt out by the portentous titles, and this must certainly be the most notorious film for having its characters standing up, sitting down, but basically doing as little as possible. The producer, in the lead role, strikes some surprisingly 'Method' looks and poses; the rest is pure Germanic momentousness of the slow, brooding kind, with one decadent character at least to liven things up.
Country: US
Technical: bw 65m (24fps)
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin
Synopsis:
Three down and outs, a man, a woman and a young boy, hang around the docks watching the dredger dig an interminable hole in the L.A. harbour. Then, one day, they see a black cat and decide to up and off.
Review:
A film about mud, and more mud; well, almost. Surely the longest sustained metaphor in the history of the cinema, and a brave experiment for a Hollywood debut, especially in 1925. The 'significance' of it all is repeatedly spelt out by the portentous titles, and this must certainly be the most notorious film for having its characters standing up, sitting down, but basically doing as little as possible. The producer, in the lead role, strikes some surprisingly 'Method' looks and poses; the rest is pure Germanic momentousness of the slow, brooding kind, with one decadent character at least to liven things up.