73% (1) Chicago 118 min, [Comedy, Crime, Drama] [Frank Urson] [23 Dec 1927]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, External Reviews
Actors: Phyllis Haver, Robert Edeson, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford
Writer: Maurine Dallas Watkins (play), Lenore J. Coffee (screenplay), John W. Krafft (titles)
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Plot: Based on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she finagles her way out being convicted. Remade once as a movie, and as a Broadway musical.
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72% (1) The Rag Man 68 min, PASSED, [Drama, Comedy] [Edward F. Cline] [16 Feb 1925]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, External Reviews
Actors: Ethel Wales, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Robert Edeson, William Conklin
Writer: Willard Mack (story), Robert E. Hopkins (titles)
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Plot: Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York freely. He meets Max Ginsberg, an old Jewish junk dealer with rheumatism, and the two strike a partnership and a close friendship.
Rotten Tomatoes: Although Jackie Coogan is dressed up (or rather, down) for this comedy in much the same way he was for Charles Chaplin's The Kid, there are two big differences -- he's four years older than when he made the Chaplin film and starting to lose his childish charm. A fire breaks out at an orphanage in New York's Lower East Side, and young Tim Kelly (Coogan) escapes in his nightshirt. He hides from the cops by ducking into a junk wagon belonging to Max Ginsberg (Max Davidson). Ginsberg takes him in, and when Tim proves himself to be an excellent "rag man," the two become partners. Years before, Ginsberg had invented a type of sewing machine, but Bernard (Robert Edeson), a crooked lawyer, cheated him out of the patent. Tim tracks down the devious Bernard and makes him square things with Ginsberg. The two rag men, now incredibly wealthy, become New York's most exclusive antiques dealers.
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72% (1) Braveheart 71 min, [Western] [Alan Hale] [27 Dec 1925]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, External Reviews
Actors: Arthur Housman, Lillian Rich, Robert Edeson, Rod La Rocque
Writer: Mary O'Hara (adaptation), William C. de Mille (play)
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Plot: Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
Rotten Tomatoes: A young, football-playing Indian (Rod La Rocque) is sent to law school by the tribe in order to learn the ways of the white man. Returning to the reservation, the young jurist takes up the fight against a corrupt factory owner (Robert Edeson) who is taking advantage of the Indian labor. Based on an original story by William de Mille, this silent Western was in many ways a throwback to the early 1910s, a time when stories of Indian uplift were commonplace. The Tyrone Power in the cast was the character-actor father of the later 20th Century Fox star. This film was one of a handful directed by future Warner Bros. stalwart Alan Hale.
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69% (1) The Prisoner of Zenda 125 min, [Adventure, Romance] [Rex Ingram] [11 Sep 1922]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Robert Edeson, Stuart Holmes
Writer: Anthony Hope (novel), Mary O'Hara (scenario)
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Plot: When the king is drugged and abducted by his ambitious brother, a lookalike relative must take his place to keep the evil sibling off the throne.
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66% (1) The Volga Boatman 120 min, [Drama, Romance] [Cecil B. DeMille] [23 May 1926]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Elinor Fair, Robert Edeson, Victor Varconi, William Boyd
Writer: Konrad Bercovici (novel), Lenore J. Coffee (adaptation)
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Plot: During the Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
Rotten Tomatoes: One feels that if Cecil B. DeMille had been assigned to direct the one-character play Krapp's Last Tape, he'd have added 15,000 extras and a flood. A typically overbaked (and immensely entertaining) DeMille effort, The Volga Boatman was "inspired" by a Konrad Bercovici novel. Set in the months prior to the Russian Revolution, the story opens as Princess Vera (Elinor Fair), promised in marriage to Prince Dmitri (Victor Varconi), chooses instead to spend her time with humble but handsome Volga boatman Feodor (William Boyd). Comes the revolution, and Feodor leads his fellow peasants in an assault against the nobility. Angered when Vera's father orders the death of one of his followers, Feodor breaks into her palace, demanding that either she or her father be executed as punishment. Vera courageously offers to sacrifice herself, but Feodor, who's fallen in love with her, can't bring himself to end her life. He fakes her execution and helps her to escape, introducing her to the other revolutionaries as his wife. When the Royalist armies counterattack, Vera and Feodor are captured and subject to a series of humiliations. Dmitri rescues Vera, but sentences Feodor to death -- relenting at the last minute when Vera pleads that Feodor be spared. Thus, when the balance of power shifts and Russia is again in the hand of the revolutionaries, Dmitri is allowed to go into safe exile by a grateful Vera and Feodor. The film's now-famous advertising photo, showing a group of aristocrats being forced to drag a ferryboat along the Volga, was later utilized for a memorable sight gag in the 1927 Laurel and Hardy comedy With Love and Hisses.
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