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Post by topbilled on Jul 24, 2023 13:43:39 GMT
The original production was made at Warner Brothers and featured a breakthrough role for Wayne Morris. Here Robert Osborne discusses the 1937 version when costar Humphrey Bogart was Star of the Month in 2009:
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Post by topbilled on Jul 24, 2023 13:46:08 GMT
In 1962, United Artists remade the story with Elvis Presley in the lead role. Ben Mankiewicz discusses the film during a Summer Under the Stars tribute in 2017 for Elvis:
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Post by topbilled on Jul 24, 2023 16:42:14 GMT
Warner Brothers had also told the story as THE WAGONS ROLL AT NIGHT (1941) which was closer to the original source material.
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Post by yanceycravat on Jul 25, 2023 3:26:41 GMT
Here are trailers for this weeks selections!
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jul 25, 2023 14:47:45 GMT
The 1937 Kid Galahad is a Warner Bros. studio classic in that it is a fairly routine film, but with 3 of the finest actors on the WB lot in E.G. Robinson, Humphery Bogart and Bette Davis. Also, the supporting actors are well cast, Wayne Morris and Jane Bryan.
This was a key film for me when I was just starting to get into studio-era films in the early 80s. I saw Bogie at a Hollywood revival theater (Big Sleep, Casablanca etc..) and thus was drawn to this film, as well as Marked Women, and those films made me want to explore Bette Davis.
While it feels like a "B" film, it was an "A" picture directed by Michael Curtiz.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jul 25, 2023 17:56:38 GMT
Note that the Elvis 1962 Kid Galahad is my second favorite Elvis film (behind King Creole).
Being a boxing movie with gambling and gangsters one would think it would be more gritty, but it lacks in this area. Only Charles Bronson brings tension into his scenes. But there are fine actors in Gig Young and Lolo Albright.
As far as the Wagons Role at Night (1941): Here Bogie takes the role of the older, hot-headed brother and he is miscast. Eddie Albert is the best thing about Wagons Role at Night. Albert was also featured in the WB film, Out of the Fog that same year, with Garfield and Lupino.
While I'm a big fan of Sylvia Sidney, she wasn't the right type of actress for her role as the gal of the older brother. Lupino would have worked better. Also, with John Leslie as the younger sister. Looks like WB cranked this film out in around 2 weeks!
Funny that the circus setting is directly from the novel; Thus, just going to show that, when doing a remake, being more faithful to the novel isn't always better.
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