| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 62 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Kino Lorber Edu in 1919. |
| Summary |
One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail of garish stage shows and Austro-Hungarian villainy that is a diabolical delight. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Musical films.
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Ventriloquists -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957, actor.
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Compson, Betty, 1897-1974, actor.
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Cruze, James, 1884-1942, director.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1114621 Kanopy |
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