Birthright: Based on a Novel by Thomas Sigismund Stribling

Another remake of another now-lost silent film (in this case, 1924's same-titled "Birthright"), the later version of this drama exposing the "rank corruption of the South" ends up being one of Micheaux's better sound features. "Opening up" the drama with plent...

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1. Verfasser: Stribling, Thomas Sigismund (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Micheaux, Oscar (RegisseurIn), Marshall, Robert J. (Kameramann/frau), Newsome, Carman (SchauspielerIn), Moses, Ethel (SchauspielerIn), Lovejoy, Alec (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software Buchkapitel
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Veröffentlicht: London BFI [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:Another remake of another now-lost silent film (in this case, 1924's same-titled "Birthright"), the later version of this drama exposing the "rank corruption of the South" ends up being one of Micheaux's better sound features. "Opening up" the drama with plenty of outdoor, on location-shot footage, "Birthright" also has the advantage of likable performers in the lead roles and plenty of suspense as the drama builds to its exciting climax. Though the first two reels of this 1938 production are missing in the current restoration, the viewer is plunged right in to the drama of returning Ivy League graduate Peter Siner (Carman Newsome), who is immediately swindled out of some land due to the unscrupulous business practices of the Jim Crow-era South. Soon caught in a three-cornered romance between his best friend, the returning war veteran Tump Pack (Alex Lovejoy), and the sensuous nightclub performer Cissie Dildine (Ethel Moses), Siner is offered the position of personal secretary to elderly plenipotentiary Captain Renfew (George E. Lessey) after the death of his mother (Trixie Smith). Though much is left unstated and implied in the drama of self-sacrifice, jealousy, and budding violence that follows, Micheaux, as in his best early silent films, offers a panoramic view of a corrupt community and the roots of evil that perpetuate the sins of the past. [www.zekefilm.org]
Beschreibung:1 DVD-Video (71 Min.) schwarz-weiß

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