Paradise Island (1930) PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD
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- čas přidán 27. 09. 2018
- Stars: Marceline Day, Kenneth Harlan, Tom Santschi
Director: Bert Glennon
When a sweet young girl arrives on a sleepy, south sea island to marry her fiancée, she discovers he has gambled away all his money and become a drunk. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Marceline Day was in so many genres of film. She was so endearing and had such poise. She brings something more to talkies because of her silent film acting where she had to portray more without words. I like how she uses and places her hands when she acts, the way she touches someone or glides her hands from a chair to across a table, she is always expressing herself with her hands and body language. She is always a delight to watch on screen.
Marceline Day, who died on February 2, 2000, played student body president Faith Morgan in Clara Bow's first talkie, The Wild Party(1929). 😁
Amazing since this is only 3 years after the Jazz Singer. The industry advanced quickly. Wonder if this film was billed as a musical ?
That evening gown is really something. It's the entire reason the modesty standard was adopted!
that was a cute little movie. i liked it. i really like seeing the fashions from the '30s.
Same here.
Thank you.
Some of the Guy's here looked menacing like silent screen stars,by their eyes & faces😉
Really menacing.
Pre-code and pre- a lot of things.
"Good lord, he's turned pansy!" also liked the song A Girl In Every Port! fun stuff
Was this a re-release? I noticed on the title that it was passed by the board of review
Enjoyed film.
Good 🎥😉
"I've Got A Girl In Every Poooooort!" - I wonder why this song isn't sung anymore.
25:00 - 25:30 👧🏽👑👧🏽
Beauty & the beauties 👧🏽🧑🏻👧🏽
26:17 - 26:43 👧🏽👧🏽👧🏽
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"Passed by National Board of Review". Is it still Pre-code Hollywood, even so?
Pre-code refers to The Hayes Code which was adopted in 1930 but not seriously enforced until 1934.
@@PizzaFLIX The National Board of Review was an organization of movie producers - nothing to do with the "Code."
I saw this snd it wasnt my cup of tea. I realize that racism was prevalent back then but still it was hard to swallow and the singing put me off also. And a reminder these are not black but Asian people as another comment inferred as such. I wont rate this but still encourage others to see what was happening then is still happening today over 90 years later. 😮
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Interesting seeing white people play coloured people - problem with this is that white faces are shaped very differently. Was Tonga like this at all back in the 1920s/1930s? An interesting question to ask. Missionaries came to Tonga in the early 1800s. It is one of the most Christianised countries on earth and would have been when this film was made so it is very doubtful that the activities - gambling and prostitution would have been happening - and neither were there plantations owned by foreigners although the country has welcomed foreigners since the first visit of Cook... Nowadays and in the past 200 years everyday life is heavily influenced by Polynesian traditions and by the Christian faith; for example, all commerce and entertainment activities cease on Sunday, from the beginning of the day at midnight, to the end of the day at midnight. The constitution declares the Sabbath sacred forever. The official figures from the latest government census as of 2011 show that 90% of the population are affiliated with a Christian church or sect.
Are you nieve come on prostitution and gambling was bread for alot of people and lack of education
I doubt if the filmmakers could tell Tonga from Tuvalu...or cared.
@@topnorthtv9129 “naive”
Those could have been natives as extras , or maybe Hispanics.
@@alanfoster6589 Actually, from my Grandmother's telling of my great grandparents stories of white people traveling in the South Pacific, Asia, The Orient and colonial and Missionary settlements in the mid to late 1800's, and judging by the letters, diaries, pictures and other artifacts still in my family when I was young, in the 1970's, when 'out of town', white people behaved pretty 'primitively' themselves. In other words, this depiction is not far off many people's experiences. It was pretty wild and wooly back in the day.