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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "language" (2)

A Natural Born Gambler

Bert Williams (director/lead/producer/writer)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jul 1916
Minutes: 22

Fired up to see the legendary comedy of Bert Williams, but only got an historical drama reenacting the racial aspect of the US criminal injustice system. Sad, sad, sad.

Featured elements:

: addiction; alienation; comedy; courtroom; ethnic stereotype; gambling; language; prejudice; prison; social commentary; white supremacy

The Cocoanuts

Robert Florey (director)
Joseph Santley (director)
George J. Folsey (cinematographer)
George S. Kaufman (writer)
Morrie Ryskind (writer)
Irving Berlin (music)
Frank Tours (music)
Georges Bizet (music-uncredited)
The Marx Brothers (lead)
Groucho Marx (lead)
Harpo Marx (lead)
Chico Marx (lead)
Zeppo Marx (lead)
Margaret Dumont (lead)
Mary Eaton (lead)
Kay Francis (lead)
Basil Ruysdael (lead)

Language: English, released in May 1929
Minutes: 93

The first all-talking feature film worth listening to, the Marx Brothers' sound film debut opens as a bit of a yawner until Harpo makes his silent sound debut much like the debut of another very famous silent comic tramp: stalking ladies, wreaking havoc, in a hotel lobby. Notable for:

the sexy-voiced vamp
the suprisingly butt-ugly shoe-faced romantic male lead
one of the few non-Marx musical numbers in a Marx Brothers comedy that overcomes the lure of fast-forward: the wild Ellington/Stravinsky-style arrangement of the catchy syncopated Monkey Doodle Doo.

Featured elements:

: Bizet's Carmen; breaking class; comedy; comedy of manners; dance; emblematic shot; farce; femme fatale; forbidden love; gender-bender; gold digger; language; metatheatre; music; prejudice; romance; shadow-the-guard gag; tramp; wage slavery; zero to hero

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