Word: vidor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boheme. In a perfect spasm of Art and classic reverence, Metro-Goldwyn has taken the fiction of Henry Murger, chiefly famous for Puccini's opera written around it, and produced a "super-picture." Lillian Gish and John Gilbert are the players and the director is King Vidor. After failing in an attempt to purchase the cinema rights to the Puccini music (although it is said $150,000 was offered), a complete special score was obtained which approximated the classic melodies. Everything then was done to make the picture memorable. It turned out a trifle-tiresome. The story...
...Horses. Jack Holt and Florence Vidor are fairly entertainingly occupied in a marine adventure in which a typhoon is prominently concerned. He is a sea captain and she the wife of an Englishman who once might have been described...
...Nathanisms to obtain it. Secondly, the direction is ham, and by that we mean that it is distinctly ordinary and obvious. The scenes are not quite real, the French village looks like some left over set and in short the picture is continually off key if compared to King Vidor's splendid instrument...
Majestic--"The Big Parade", a motion picture by Laurence Stellings, directed by King Vidor on January...
...Enchanted Hill. Another sound sample from the West appears with Jack Holt and Florence Vidor. It is the old and always interesting adventure of cattle rustling and shooting, complicated for novelty with airplanes...