Across to Singapore 1928(upscaled)| Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence with Anna May Wong
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Anna May Wong has a memorable & uncredited role as Singapore Woman in this film adaptation of the book, All the Brothers Were Valiant, by Ben Ames Williams. Some may know Ben Ames Williams' work via the film, Leave Her to Heaven (1945) starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, and Vincent Price. This film tells the story of a woman, Priscilla Crowninshield (Crawford), in a love triangle between two brothers Joel Shore (Novarro) and Captain Mark Shore (Torrence).
***Upscaled from its original size (640x480) and & improved the image quality using AI technology from Topaz Labs.
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Hi AMW family! Here's another re-do upscaled video... This time of the Across to Singapore (1928) film. This is a continual learning process for me especially since I'm self-taught when it comes to video editing. The old version is now unlisted. Thanks for your patience & understanding!
Enjoyed it very much.Good everything,filmography,story,Torrences acting and love between two gorgeous stars which is Hollywoods specialty.I wish to see Ana Mae in film as a true star.
Gorgeous Mexican born Ramon Novarro he was Joan Crawford’s first leading man🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🇲🇽🇲🇽🤩🤩🤩
Wow! This is the best quality I've ever seen of this film. Thank you and great job!
Very well done. Nice upscale job, thanks.
Though a short and somewhat thankless part, Ms. Wong is the best thing in this film and definitely outclasses the other actors. But again uncredited and still going through that strange impasse she had with Hollywood in the silent era after "The Thief of Bagdad" (sure, she's a movie star but not really only she is and yet she isn't, yet she's in all the Hollywood magazines only she's not really a star, yadda yadda yadda) which lead her shortly across the pond for a spell of true appreciation on stage and screen before coming back to the U.S. as a full blown B-Picture star.
Astounding, perplexing career she had.
True, but remember, Joan was a new star, and Anna's roles, not performances, in the year or two prior were fairly uninspiring....as best we know.
But she did play Baroness Stoloff, the Jewel Thief, in "whiteface" I suppose, in "The Honorable Mr. Buggs", a Hal Roach comedy with a script co-authored by Stan Laurel. Oliver Hardy, in blackface, played a butler/valet.
I believe there is a copy in the Netherlands and at the Library of Congress.
As for "Across to Singapore" Wong's role as the B-girl is inspired. It is really pivotal.
MGM didn't want to promote Anna May, or perhaps Crawford herself had something to do with it. I wasn't there.
The scenes where she takes care of the big galoot, Captain Mark Shore, after he has been left for dead, certainly allowed her more chances to prove her skills with different kinds of emotions.
But-in the European theaters, it was Anna May as the female equal of Crawford. And it is Anna May prominent in the movie posters in Europe, radiating desirability. As opposed to Joan.
@@thomasshoener2154 You are quite correct. Ms. Wong's "uninspiring" roles at that period seemed possibly not just due to Crawford (could be) but also possibly MGM simply not knowing how to promote or what to do with not only a Chinese movie star but with a beautiful female one to boot. I still think it's odd (Crawford not withstanding) she was uncredited for this one because she *was* a name and had been consistently receiving credit for quite a while when this film was made. I wasn't aware European theaters were hyping Anna May as much if not more so than Crawford but that certainly would be a logical explanation to why she took off for Europe around the same time this film was released.
I've seen photos of her on IMDb in "The Honorable Mr. Buggs" looking quite comically extravagant but obviously haven't seen the film itself.
Curious how Anna May Wong's name was absent in the credits or cast. One of her better films while she was still in America.
Navarro was a beautiful man. Crawford looked evil, even at this early stage of her career. Scary!
Yeah, there was something wierd about her . did you know that when she was on her deathbed she said something like , '' Dont you dare ask God to help me " !😳😳😳
It looks sharper. On my tv, as viewable as any streaming movie.
in some portions of the movie here there are issues with the quality of the master-but it is lucky you have as much of the film to work with.
I brought down the brightness control a bit while viewing. But there are so many variables involved.
All of the copies of "Chu Chin Chow" I have watched are bedeviled by horrible sound quality and only mediocre video.
But here, 🎉🎉🎉👍🏻 for "Across to Singapore."