The seventh commandment
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The seventh commandment |
| Original title | Lucky Star |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Borzage |
| script | Sonya Levien |
| production | William Fox for Fox Film Corporation |
| camera |
Chester A. Lyons , William Cooper Smith |
| cut |
HH Caldwell , Katherine Hilliker , Margaret Clancey |
| occupation | |
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The seventh commandment (original title: Lucky Star ) is a silent film by Frank Borzage from 1929 with the popular screen couple Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in their third of a total of twelve appearances together. It is based on the story Three Epidodes in the Life of Timothy Osborn by Tristram Tupper .
The film was distributed both in a version with dialogue sequences and as a purely silent film. Today only the silent version is available.
action
Rural America of the 1910s: Mary Tucker, a poor farm girl, runs a small farm with her widowed mother. She meets the telecommunications fitter Tim Osborn, just as the First World War breaks out. Tim reports to the army and goes overseas, where he is wounded in France and returns with paralyzed legs. After seeing him in a wheelchair, Mary visits Tim often and both gradually feel drawn to each other until mere sympathy becomes love. But because of his disability, he doesn't dare to reveal his feelings to her. The mother also has reservations about her daughter wanting to get involved with a cripple when she could have a healthy husband whom the run-down farm so badly needs.
Martin's former superior Sergeant Wrenn, a "no good", is also interested in Mary, although he is already engaged to another local girl. He appears in uniform, even though he was dishonorably discharged from the army, and boasts of false decorations. He ensnares Mother Tucker with presents and promises heaven if Mary gets involved with him. Tim suspects bad things and with an almost superhuman effort pulls himself up to learn to use his legs again. He can drag himself to the station just in time before Mary and Wrenn board the train into town. After a wrestling match between the two men on the railroad track, which ends with the departure of Wrenn, Tim and Mary can finally sink into each other's arms.
background
The film was released in America on August 18, 1929. He also appeared as a part talkie with dialogue scenes.
The seventh commandment was long thought to be lost until 1989 when an undamaged 35 mm nitro copy was found in the Nederlands Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. It was restored and revived at the 1990 Le Giornate del Cinema Muto silent film festival in Pordenone, Italy. The Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Society Bielefeld e. V. showed The Seventh Commandment 2012 with musical accompaniment by Daniel Kothenschulte on the piano in the CineStar cinema in Bielefeld. The “Filmhauskino” in Nuremberg performed Lucky Star in 2015 with piano accompaniment by jazz musician Hannes Selig.
literature
- Sheila Benson: A Glowing 'Lucky Star' Rises Again - Restoration: The 1929 silent with a new score will screen at UCLA in a film-preservation benefit. In: Los Angeles Times , Nov 5, 1991 ( online at latimes.com )
- Marcel Carné: "Lucky Star" (L'Isolé) de Frank Borzage. In: Cinémagazine , November 1, 1929 ( online at marcel-carne.com )
Web links
- The seventh commandment in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Seventh Commandment at Turner Classic Movies
- The seventh commandment at silentfilm.org
- The seventh commandment at silentera.com
- The seventh commandment at film.at
Individual evidence
- ^ Hervé Dumont: Frank Borzage. McFarland, 2015, ISBN 978-1-476-61331-4 , p. 372 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ "Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.", Cf. silentera.com , Fielding pp. 128, 159, 178-179, 182, 186-187, and the like. 219
- ↑ Frank Borzage: The Seventh Commandment ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Murnau Society
- ↑ kunstkulturquartier.de
