Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vidor, King[Regisseur]
• Gilbert, John[Schauspieler]
• Adorée, Renée[Schauspieler]
• Davis, Carl[Komponist]
• Vance, Jeffrey[Kommentator]
• Stallings, Laurence

Titel

El gran desfile [Bildtonträger]

Ort / Verlag

Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Orig.: USA, 1925
• Extras: Audiokommentar von Jeffrey Vance mit King Vidor. Kurzfilm "Studio Tour (1925).
• Die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der als amerikanischer Kriegsfreiwilliger an den Schlachten des Ersten Weltkrieges teilnimmt und als Invalide zurückkehrt. Einer der großen und beeindruckenden Anti-Kriegsfilme Hollywoods, der nicht nur ein sensationeller finanzieller Erfolg war, sondern auch den Ruhm seines Regisseurs und seines Hauptdarstellers, der sich endlich zu schauspielerischer Größe aufschwingen durfte, festigte. Auch heute noch beeindruckt der Film, dem in den 30er Jahren einige Farbsequenzen hinzugefügt wurden, durch seine glaubwürdige Haltung, beeindruckende Massenszenen (in einer Szene wurden 200 Panzer verwendet) und seine tief humane Gesinnung. Ein Meisterwerk der Filmgeschichte, das die Greuel des Krieges schonungslos anprangert. (Lexikon des internationalen Films)
• Extras: Commentary with Historian Jeffrey Vance (and Director King Vidor): Vidor's participation occurs through excerpts from his recollections recorded in the 1970s for the library of the Director's Guild of America. Jeffrey Vance has been an archivist for MGM and has written books on Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. He is a frequent commentator for classic films, with valuable contributions to Rags & Riches: The Mary Pickford Collection, On Approval and Grand Hotel. Vance's commentary for The Big Parade is another fine effort, drawn from diverse sources that he lists at the outset. He ranges freely over the film's long and complex production history, which included multiple reshoots; the prior and subsequent careers of the principal participants; the public response and critical reception (both contemporary and subsequent); the various scores; and the restoration. Vance also describes his own encounters with the elderly King Vidor and the venerable director's generosity in sharing his knowledge. Vance introduces the inserted clips from Vidor's entertaining recollections, recorded some fifty years after he directed the film, on the making of The Big Parade. 1925 Studio Tour (480i; 1.33:1; 31:59): This silent film tour of the MGM Culver City studios (today the home of Sony Pictures) is a detailed look at what remained, for many years, one of the premiere production facilities of Hollywood. It includes a look at every department and group portraits of all the personnel, including noted stars and directors who, in today's show business world, would never consent to such corporate treatment. The source material is in rough shape and is frequently misaligned, but the fact that it has survived at all is remarkable. Theatrical Trailer (480i; 1.33:1; 2:29): This trailer was obviously made at some point after the film's initia++
• Stummfilm. Untertitel Castellan, franz., span.