Word: emile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have found in our explorations of the cinema policies that whenever the billboards outside advertise the name of Emil Jannings, there is a good show within. This phenomenon of the silver screen, this certainty of a good picture, is assured by no other name that we know of except Jannings, and he has fulfilled his promises as usual in "The Last Command" appearing at the Metropolitan this week...
...Last Command" Emil Jannings plays the role of the Grand Duke Sergius Alexandria, own cousin to the Czar, and commander of the Russian Army. The action of the play takes place near the Russian battle lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without...
...cast includes many incongruous but no unsuccessful impersonations. Noah Beery is the lascivious old sheik, and highly satisfactory as such. Evelyn Brent, who plays opposite Emil Jannings in The Last Command (TIME, Jan. 30), does well indeed as the somewhat helpless heroine. Gary Cooper is lanky and effective as the able Major Henri de Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt...
...Last Command (Emil Jannings) is the story of a cousin to the late Russian Tsar who, after the fume and flames of the revolution,, found his way to the dreary door-steppes of a Hollywood studio...
Despite the romantic frenzy of this tragedy, whose faults are far more obvious in synopsis than in cinematic entirety, The Last Command is indubitably a powerful film. Clumsy-faced, blacksmith-muscled, thick-fingered Emil Jannings, the thoroughly unhandsome hero, is the most finished, the most subtle cinemactor in the U.S. He does everything slowly; smiles break across his face like a gradual sunrise, his sorrows have accumulated intensity. In this picture, he is ably supported by lords, soldiers, peasants, and most notably by Evelyn Brent who is the heroine...