| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 62 min.) |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Event |
Originally produced by Kino Lorber Edu in 1919 |
| Subject |
Musical films.
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Ventriloquists -- Drama
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Musical films.
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Ventriloquists.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Drama.
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Feature films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Stroheim, Erich von, actor
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Compson, Betty, actor
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Cruze, James, director
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