The Great Gabbo: Based on a Story by Ben Hecht

One of Hollywood's earliest and most peculiar musicals, "The Great Gabbo" stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue, against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed &quo...

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1. Verfasser: Hecht, Ben (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Cruze, James (RegisseurIn), Morgan, Ira H. (Kameramann/frau), Stroheim, Erich von (SchauspielerIn), Compson, Betty (SchauspielerIn), Douglas, Donald (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software Buchkapitel
Sprache:Undetermined
Veröffentlicht: New York Kino on Video [2003]
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Zusammenfassung:One of Hollywood's earliest and most peculiar musicals, "The Great Gabbo" stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue, against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail of garish stage shows and Austro-Hungarian villainy that is a diabolical delight. [Cover]
Beschreibung:[DVD] (96 Min.) s/w dolby digital 2.0