Little Annie Rooney (1925) is available on a 10/10 Terra DVD.
I should really hand this one a 9/10, as Terra seem unaware that the dance fight scene is repeated at a reel change. However, as it's the best sequence in the movie, maybe we shouldn't complain?
The movie was re-made by Fox as a Jane Withers vehicle, Ginger, in 1935.
The story is credited to a Catherine Hennessey, although it was in fact written by producer Mary Pickford herself. For director, she chose Bill Beaudine, who stages the action most convincingly but is less adept with the static scenes which he allows to run far too slowly and too long so that we become aware of such stratagems as the unusual height of some of the adults (the assistant surgeon, the reporter) and the use of a baby spot to remove wrinkles from faces.
As a result, although it most definitely hits some dramatic highs, it's a story that impresses more for its enormous production values than its too carefully carpentered dramatic qualities.
Pacier film editing would certainly also have helped.
I should really hand this one a 9/10, as Terra seem unaware that the dance fight scene is repeated at a reel change. However, as it's the best sequence in the movie, maybe we shouldn't complain?
The movie was re-made by Fox as a Jane Withers vehicle, Ginger, in 1935.
The story is credited to a Catherine Hennessey, although it was in fact written by producer Mary Pickford herself. For director, she chose Bill Beaudine, who stages the action most convincingly but is less adept with the static scenes which he allows to run far too slowly and too long so that we become aware of such stratagems as the unusual height of some of the adults (the assistant surgeon, the reporter) and the use of a baby spot to remove wrinkles from faces.
As a result, although it most definitely hits some dramatic highs, it's a story that impresses more for its enormous production values than its too carefully carpentered dramatic qualities.
Pacier film editing would certainly also have helped.