The Racketeer (1929) CAROLE LOMBARD
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- Stars: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Hedda Hopper
Director: Howard Higgin
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
These films in the late 20's early 30's had a candid honesty & realism that is completely absent in films after 1950's because there was an 'innocence' there that was yet to be spoiled; the era is forever gone!
One thing about all these older movies, they get right to the end when it's time to end.
Thank you!!!!
When I watch these old films, I wonder if any of the actors ever seriously contemplated their work might be viewed a 100 years on.
Probably. They just didn't know there'd be something called the internet. Just think, who knows what they'll be in another 90 - 100 years, and what they'd call it. Believe it or not, what we have now will be considered primitive. Now we have Skype, but then there'll probably be a virtual reality type of thing where we could see the entire room around us, all 360°, of where the person we're talking to is on the other side of the world. Hey, there may be a way to transfer odors so we could smell what that room smells like while talking to them. Who knows if technology will or will not have gone that far by then, nobody 100 years ago would've believed what we have now.
Interesting question, but for the most part I doubt it.
@@alvexok5523 My mother, who will be 100 years old in July, can remember the ice man coming down the street with his horse-drawn ice wagon to deliver ice for her mother's ice box, the closest thing they had to a refrigerator in those days.
@@RalphDratman, I think that's great. I love it whenever I've gotten the chance to talk to a survivor from that old quaint time period
Of course they did.
Excellent movie!!! 💕💕I love old movies!! Carole Lombard was great in everything she was in
Gwen Wakeling, who designed the film's wardrobe, was a movie veteran. She finally retired in 1966, after working on Elvis' "Frankie and Johnny". Her most famous TV creations were Barbara Eden's harem outfits for the pilot episode of "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" in 1965.
You're very welcome. :)
Great triva! Thanks for sharing. ")
Something we may never be told on AMC/TCM Many Thanks!!!!!
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Thank you ,good old classic !🇨🇦❤️🙏
The reason why i liked this movie from 1929 is because of the social life in 1929 is because of the cars they drove the way they dress talked ect and interacted with each other
We love Carol Lombard beauty & wit. Thx
That's "Carole," dummy. 😒
@@dariowiter3078 , I sure loved the dress she was wearing in the last scene
I am 99.97% sure my first Miss Lombard serious film! I did not know it was heer for a silly amount of time,ashamed!
Love , Mr. Robert Armstrong ..... Years before his role in King Kong 1933 - 34.
It's amazing how far movies went in just a few years from the first "talkies" - the directing was so much better by the early 30's. Thanks for letting me see Carole's beauty when she was younger than anything I've seen so far
I love that dress she's wearing at the end. I love the way women's long dresses back then circled all around them when they kneeled down to the floor or whatever. Going even further back in time, those very wide long hoop dresses women wore in the 19th century, those beautiful bell shaped dresses, when women would curtsey which they often did back then while being greeted, I love how their wide dresses looked even wider yet while doing that. Don't ask me why, I just love those long wide dresses on women back then
It had something to do with the sound recording technology. In the early talkies... the camera was in a sound proof box thus limiting its movement ....there is the story that on the set of the first Marx Bros film , The Cocoanuts ....the large map they were using had to be soaked in water so the noise of its handling did not drown out the actors .....also it seems some incidental actors in early talkies were drawn from the stage and there was an over emphasis on elocution and projection !
@@alvexok5523 Love your comment and your appreciation for long fluffy dresses♡
@@alvexok5523 Who could afford that crap back then? Gangsters and capitalist, well same thing in the end.
This movie came out 11 days after the stock market crash of October 29, 1929.
Can't wait till the next one...it'll be a doosie.
@@pravinasings8098, I like the terminology of back then, like doozie, gag, racket, hooch, dame, what's the idea?, don't be a sucker, etc.
But production probably finished a few weeks before the stock market crash when no one knew yet it was gonna happen
How poorly planned the possible popularity of this movie could have been if only the release date had been postponed for 6 months.........
Had no idea Hedda Hopper (casino’s Mrs. Lee) was actually an actress! Makes sense
I thought that was Hedda! She was a beauty, also!! This movie was really good!!!
a pre code crime film's super classic. thans for uploading :)
90 YEARS AGO
Love the oldies
Reading the comments were a major learning experience! Also my 1st serious Carole Lombard film,99% sure! Swinging!
Carol bellissima e bravissima. Meravigliosa interpretazione. Un riverente omaggio a lei e alla sua pur breve esistenza.
No Empire State Building? Oh, wait! It wasn't built yet! Mom was six years old when this was made. She actually remembers NY before it was built!
It's here: czcams.com/video/86B6tkKbIv8/video.html
@Louise Gross And the proper use of last years' Sears and Roebuck?
On Fifth Avenue at 34th Street the old Waldorf mansion and "merchant prince" Alexander T. Stewart "marble palace" mansion (then the most sumptuous private home in America) had to be razed to make way for the Empire State Building.
LOVED IT! Thank you again.
I think I'm crushing on Carole Lombard . . .
She could share my toothbrush anytime.
That's because she was sweet and loyal in this movie. Of course she is pretty but it was her mannerisms that made her beautiful.
Hey PF. Still the best choice in these classics. I guess you got past the CZcams troubles, Thankfully.
Robert totally Smitten with Carole, tough guy finds his soft side in an almost totally sacrificial act. Great performances here. Good to see Carole in serious drama, she is riveting and equally funny in the light hearted films. Great legacy. Now I'll finish the film. Good you're still in business. D
Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters) (1908-1942), who plays character Rhoda Philbrooke, didn't have her name changed from Carol to Carole until "Safety in Numbers (1930), her first Paramount release. She legally changed it in 1936. She previously acted with actor Robert Armstrong (1890-1973) in "Big News" (1929). The review of "The Racketeer" in Film Daily wrote, "Carol Lombard proves a real surprise, and does her best work to date. In fact this is the first opportunity she has had to prove that she has the stuff to go over."
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Thank you for the info!
Thank you! So many history (my thing I learned today Is overflowing!!!)
the gangster likes the girl & the girl likes the artist: a strange sort of triangle
Very Good Movie& a young Ms.Lombard! I did Not know she suffered an injury to her face.I can not imagine what amount of pain she endured with no anesthetic while stitches were put into place!? I Think she was married to Wiiiam Powell before she married Clark Gabel? Mr.Armstrong,Quite Good in his role,also! I liked him and he had a commanding voice! Thanks,PizzaFlix4 showing this entertaining film!
At around 48: 03, the way he held her like he cherished her, so rare to see or experience.
Excellent!
Jane Alice Peters/Carole Lombard had been doing the usual circuit of beauty contests and dance competitions. Her mother was behind her all the way -- knew she had star power -- when Jane Alice was in a car accident where the windshield shattered and cut her cheek deeply. Great consternation and fears that her career would be ruined. They had the doctor put the stitches in without anesthesia to minimize it.
How does the lack of anesthesia help (the stitches) to minimalize scarring? Sorry this question is 2 years old!
@@suzieqwonder3089 from what I understand, under anesthesia the muscles in her face would be lax and the doctor needed her to be awake & her facial muscles would then be normal and would minimize the scarring. The doctor also made very tiny stitches too, which had not been done before.
One thing I've noticed about this film is how the characters, and the racketeers seen to portray what they were really like back in the 1920s. They don't mess around, they take bribes from speakeasy owners, and they'll send anyone who betrayed them up the river. Yet they're still polite and civilized to everyone else. They don't come across with that exaggerated mean tough guy attitude and regularly talk through clenched teeth like they've done in numerous other 1930s gangster films, including the films with James Cagney, even though he was a great and very inspiring actor in his films. He was said to have in "Public enemy" done a pretty convincing job portraying Al Capone, but Al Capone was one of the most notorious gangsters of that day
The biggest gangsters of the day were the bankers, speculators and the people who caused the Great Crash: Al Capone was just an amateur and a distraction from their nation-wrecking activities, and they're still going strong.
@@None-zc5vg, that's interesting. I knew that some of the bankers and speculators were gangsters also, but I thought the bootleggers and speakeasy owners were just as big of gangsters as well. I guess I see your point on Al Capone being a distraction since he was so well known, since the top gangsters knew how to really conceal their activities and keep them extremely discreet.
@@alvexok5523 A top U S. Marine Corps General, Smedley Butler (d.1940), won two Medals of Honor fighting in South- and Central American countries over 100 years ago: read his condemnation of how he and his men had been fighting not to establish democratic rule in those countries or to crush enemies of the U.S., but rather to put those countries and their assets (e.g. oil) under the control of Wall Street financiers and vested interests. Butler regarded himself as having been a sucker, a hired killer, a gangster, more or less. Read his book (try finding it) called "War Is A Racket".
@@None-zc5vg, ok, that book sounds interesting, I'll check it out.
* commendation
Carole would have been great in King Kong from 33. Funny that it didn’t happen considering how many films she made with her co-star.
“Thank you officer”? Lol. Would Hollywood ever allow that to be said in one of their trillion dollar movie?
Yes, they would.
@@-oiiio-3993 i think not, it would be said jokingly- except for older people who were raised with manners.
@@beamartin7396 Every generation has said that of the last.
Read Plato's Republic.
as of recently NO!!!
Thank you officer
When’s the last time anyone said that to any policeman that risk their lives everyday for us everyday?
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I do, but my entire family nearly were officers including me. My cousins and son-in-law still are. You have NO idea how a little consideration is appreciated and remembered.
I do at least 4 times a week...
My Father in Law is a Sheriff!
I've said that to every office who's ever pulled me over for a traffic ticket
People still say it.
Not everybody, but everybody didn't say it in 1929, either.
People are people. There's some who say it and mean it, some who say it insincerely trying not to get in trouble, and some who never say it.
There's some bad cops out there, too, BTW.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that everybody wasn't gracious and polite in 1929, and humanity didn't collectively turn bad after that. Human nature is what it is.
@@StellaWaldvogel, there were always nasty people, and there are some good ones today. But what does have truth to it was that there was a more formality to people's mannerisms back in the old days, and more people were more conventional. There were always hateful people, racism was definitely more out in the open and worse then, blacks and whites definitely kept more to their own. But in other ways there were more manners back then, more "thank yous", "good nights", and "how do you do?" (the particular latter words definitely was more common then). Clothes were definitely more formal, there were alot more women wearing dresses. Things such as dating and courting (the latter a word rarely used anymore), more people would do things such as a girl bringing a guy home to formally meet her parents before taking her out even when the guy and girl were adults. Chivalry was definitely more common. Dating at all ages was more formal and less rushed. And people definitely didn't jump to sex as quickly, and more people did save it til marriage.
Looks like the real criminal is the fiddle player. He puts himself first and ruins her first marriage and then after she saves him he does a replay and trys to ruin her chance at happiness with someone who actually loves her. He probably dumps her again after the other guy is dead.
"Just a gigolo."
He did not do anything. He was indifferent to her, she threw herself at him. He did not care and really kind of put up with it. She had the problem and behaved irrationally. It was a music groupie maternal instinct unrealistic love. He was just a drunk violin player who did not even care about himself. She refused to see reality.
@@saran3214 you have very good insight ♡
I was thinking the same thing!!
Interesting to watch a motion picture from 90 plus years ago.
Good Movie!
Say, that was a SWELL picture!
Yes, you bet your tooty fruity it was, especially the dame. And the bad guy, that lousy mug. However, I wanted to talk to the producers about the last scene, see? I wanted to ask them what's the idea? But all the same, I didn't want to be a sucker neither, so I didn't ask 'em nothin.
@Louise Gross , in case you didn't notice, I was talking like someone from the 1930s. Here's the translation of that same paragraph in modern talk:
Yeah, you bet your ass it was, especially the chick. And the bad guy, that piece of shit. But, I wanted to talk to the producers about the last scene, you know? I wanted to ask them what's up? But the thing is, I didn't want to be a dumbass either, so I didn't ask em shit.
The cat's pajamas.
@@-oiiio-3993 the saying is actually. ..
That's The Cats Meow
Consider yourself old school lingo officially corrected and taught. ..Ya got it toots! ")
@@mallenjm252 No, you have not "corrected"" or "taught" anything.
The cat's pajamas and the cat's meow are both idioms that were popular in the early to mid 20th Century.
www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-cats-pajamas.html
Get hep like the gators do.
Thanks!
Thanks Wanda Jean 🍕May the Sauce be with you 🍕
I feel her spirit of witt.
A good movie
Thanks.
14:35 65 cents then is equal to about $10 in 2018
49:47 when he shoots the guy through the taxi window: what a scene!
The $50 of chips she purchased would be more than $750 today.
Beautiful actresses in back of time not like today fake woman
Nice movie, thank you
Good quickie with all you need in terms of characters, atmosphere and pathos! Little slow and clunky in places but none the worse for that.
Originally released in November 1929.
Hedda Hopper as "Mrs Lee". Presumably before she became the fashion diva of Hollywood.
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@@JudgeJulieLit She was attractive when she was younger.
@@keithharvey7230 Yes.
Was this film made in Britain? The steering wheels are on the left side.
melodrama at its peak of thick
The beat cop tells the driver: "you'll be up the river making pinwheels" what was the meaning of pinwheel back then?
My guess would be hubcaps
5 and 15 cents for a taxi.
That would be $.75 and $2.26 today - still quite a bargain!
Storyline: Tough mobster Mahlon Keane practically runs crime in New York City. He meets broke ex-society girl Rhoda Philbrooke at a society fundraiser and helps her cheat her way to some winnings in poker. Rhoda needs the money to help nurse broken alcoholic concert violinist Tony Vaughan back to health. In between his criminal dealings, Keane takes up Rhoda's cause and helps promote Vaughan's return to public performance. Rhoda agrees to marry Keane but still harbors unrequited love for Tony Vaughan. On the eve of her marriage, Vaughan confesses his love to Rhoda. Now how will she handle her mobster fiancée?
First time I've seen her in a movie...don't know what to make of her, don't care for her voice much...
12:29 But Tuesday May 13th wasn't until 1930
Maybe I’ll remake it, Scarface style… Should I?
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Those hair dos were😝
Today's "don't's."
The beautiful Carole Lombard wonderful actress. My mom was 9 years old in 1929 when this movie came out. Precode movies. I wonder if this movie was a flop? I think it was. This movie is boring as hell. I love Carole but this movie is horrible.
I thought it was worth watching, to get the flavor of the times.
12:14, 19:53, 25:58, 29:30, 38:53, 51:35, 1:05:13
Checked every one; I'm afraid I'm not sharp enough to follow your gist.
Waste of space you plonka.
I like the channel, but this film was a stinker. What horrible writing and acting.
Nice post reticle.
@@-oiiio-3993 : Thanks. My three main hunting rifles use this. Not easy to find anymore.
@@craigbenz4835 My Mannlicher Schoenauer M1910 wears a Gerard B.
@@craigbenz4835 What are you talking about?Do you go to a special needs school?
THE OPENING MAKES ZERO SENSE. AND THEN THIS GETS BORING AS HELL.
As do you.
Yet you chose not to move on.
I find such comments "boring as hell." 😁
I QUIT AT 20:38. This movie stinks.
Yours is the minority opinion.
Try to figure out what kind of man the producer was, and did he demand anything from a 21 year old Lombard?
@@mikediamond353 just eww 😑