Dudley Murphy
Nascimento : 1867-07-10, Winchester, Massachusetts, United States
Morte : 1968-02-22
História
Dudley Bowles Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director. In his first short film, Soul of the Cypress (1921), a variation on the Orpheus myth, the film's protagonist falls in love with a dryad (a wood nymph whose soul dwells in an ancient tree) and throws himself into the sea to become immortal and spend eternity with her. Murphy's then-wife Chase Harringdine played the dryad. Murphy followed this with Danse Macabre (1922) featuring Adolph Bolm, Olin Howland, and Ruth Page.
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About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportation to Siberia if she rejected his romantic advances.
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Soundie, in which Jacky Green impersonates Eddie Cantor, and The Five Spirits of Rhythm are porters shining shoes.
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The singer here is Hoagy Carmichael on the piano singing the title song whose lyrics is by Johnny Mercer. He has a couple of beautiful white women at his side while Dorothy is a maid who's trying to keep butler Peter Ray from letting a tray with pitcher on it from falling off his head.
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Story of a lawyer, gangster and a floozy.
Adaptation
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
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The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
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Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
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Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
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O inescrupuloso e ambicioso, Brutus Jones, escapa da cadeia após matar um guarda e, depois de muita luta, se encontra imperador de uma ilha no Caribe.
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Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.
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A dancer is jealous for her lover.
Dialogue
Drácula (Bela Lugosi) é um conde vindo dos Cárpatos que aterroriza Londres por carregar uma maldição que o obriga a beber sangue humano para sobreviver. Após transformar uma jovem em vampira, ele concentra suas atenções em uma amiga dela, mas o pai da próxima vítima se chama Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), um cientista holandês especialista em vampiros que pode acabar com seu reinado de terror.
Continuity
Drácula (Bela Lugosi) é um conde vindo dos Cárpatos que aterroriza Londres por carregar uma maldição que o obriga a beber sangue humano para sobreviver. Após transformar uma jovem em vampira, ele concentra suas atenções em uma amiga dela, mas o pai da próxima vítima se chama Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), um cientista holandês especialista em vampiros que pode acabar com seu reinado de terror.
Additional Dialogue
Drácula (Bela Lugosi) é um conde vindo dos Cárpatos que aterroriza Londres por carregar uma maldição que o obriga a beber sangue humano para sobreviver. Após transformar uma jovem em vampira, ele concentra suas atenções em uma amiga dela, mas o pai da próxima vítima se chama Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), um cientista holandês especialista em vampiros que pode acabar com seu reinado de terror.
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Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...
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Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...
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A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
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In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.
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In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.
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Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.
Cinematography
Léger e Murphy comparam os objetos da vida cotidiana aos gestos do homem e às engrenagens de uma máquina. Filme com importantes estratégias rítmicas e espaciais. O francês Léger e o americano Murphy eram pintores e apaixonados pelo cinema. Ambos realizaram alguns filmes em parceria ou com outros artistas, como Hans Richter. Curta metragem de vanguarda. Um filme experimental com influências surrealista, futurista, cubista e dadaísta.
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Léger e Murphy comparam os objetos da vida cotidiana aos gestos do homem e às engrenagens de uma máquina. Filme com importantes estratégias rítmicas e espaciais. O francês Léger e o americano Murphy eram pintores e apaixonados pelo cinema. Ambos realizaram alguns filmes em parceria ou com outros artistas, como Hans Richter. Curta metragem de vanguarda. Um filme experimental com influências surrealista, futurista, cubista e dadaísta.
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The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, embrace, and kiss. As the night wears on, exuberant Death, a skeletal figure with a violin, pursues the couple. They try to elude him. Eventually, Love swoons. Youth is powerless to protect her. Is she doomed?
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Influenced by California Pictorialist photography of the preceding decades, it was in its own day recognized as an avant-garde film, but nevertheless it secured successful commercial distribution.
