Ten Nights in a Bar Room: Based on a Novel by Timothy Shay Arthur

Featuring one of the few known film performances of legendary stage actor Charles Gilpin, who had originated the title role in Eugene O'Neill's groundbreaking 1920 play "Emperor Jones" and who would later star in 1929's "The Scar of Shame", "Ten Nights in a Ba...

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Hauptverfasser: Sosin, Donald (KomponistIn), Shay Arthur, Timothy (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Calnek, Roy (RegisseurIn), Gilpin, Charles (SchauspielerIn), Burwell, Myra (SchauspielerIn), Chenault, Lawrence (SchauspielerIn), Henderson, Harry (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software Buchkapitel
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Veröffentlicht: London BFI [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:Featuring one of the few known film performances of legendary stage actor Charles Gilpin, who had originated the title role in Eugene O'Neill's groundbreaking 1920 play "Emperor Jones" and who would later star in 1929's "The Scar of Shame", "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" concerns the small Southern town of Cedarville and its corruption by a local speakeasy and gambling den. Gilpin plays Joe Morgan, who sells the town's gin mill to the nefarious Simon Slade (Lawrence Chenault) and quickly descends into alcoholism, resulting in tragedy both for the town and his family. Essentially a late addition to the "temperance film" popular in the early portion of the Prohibition era, the obvious nature of both the message and drama benefits from its frank portrayal of the effects of poverty and vice on a specifically African-American community. With its emphasis on social problems that mainstream Hollywood would not have dreamed of dealing with at the time, the film is at least 40 years ahead of its time; resulting in a quite remarkable apotheosis of community violence, directed squarely against the town's source of evil, that in fact prefigures the climax to Spike Lee’s "Do The Right Thing" (1989) by a full 63 years! [www.zekefilm.org]
Beschreibung:1 DVD-Video (61 Min.) schwarz-weiß

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