Frank Borzage - Volume 2 ( Lucky Star / Liliom ) ( Frank Borzage - Vol. Two )

Frank Borzage - Volume 2 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Lucky Star / Liliom
Alternate Title: Frank Borzage - Vol. Two
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
185 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1929 - 1930 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Frank Borzage

Written By:
John Hunter Booth
H.H. Caldwell
Ferenc Molnár
S.N. Behrman

Actors:
Janet Gaynor ..... Mary Tucker
Charles Farrell ..... Timothy Osborn
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ..... Sgt. Martin Wrenn
Paul Fix ..... Joe
Hedwiga Reicher ..... Mrs. Tucker
Gloria Grey ..... Mary Smith
Hector Sarno ..... Pop Fry
Charles Farrell ..... Liliom
Rose Hobart ..... Julie
Estelle Taylor ..... Mme. Muscat
H.B. Warner ..... Chief Magistrate
Lee Tracy ..... The Buzzard
Walter Abel ..... Carpenter
Mildred Van Dorn ..... Marie
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ..... Hollinger
Lillian Elliott ..... Aunt Hulda
Anne Shirley ..... Louise
Bert Roach ..... Wolf
James A. Marcus ..... Linzman
Harvey Clark ..... Angel Gabriel

Synopsis:

Lucky Star (1929)
Lucky Star sees the great romantic screen pairing of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell for the third time. The chemistry is palpable, working with Borzage's visual techniques to create an ethereally beautiful and delicate result - a tale of a poverty-stricken girl and budding crook who is transformed by through her friendship with a wheelchair-bound Great War veteran.

Liliom (1930)
Liliom is Borzage's seminal version Ferenc Molnár's celebrated play. Starring Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart, this lost classic was Borzage's first talkie and was remade as the much loved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.

Lucky Star (1929)
In this drama, a lonely woman leads an isolated life on a ramshackle with her widowed mother who firmly believes her daughter should marry a recently returned WW I veteran. Although the mother's intentions are good, the daughter already loves another veteran. Prior to the war, both men had been linesmen, but her true love was crippled in battle and cannot resume his trade. The mother therefore does not consider him to be a good match. She then betroths her daughter to the other. Just before they are to marry, her true love miraculously recovers, defeats his rival, and ends up marrying her.

Liliom (1930)
Ferenc Molnar's bittersweet fantasy play, was first filmed in Hollywood in 1930, with Charles Farrell as ne'er-do-well carnival barker Liliom and Rose Hobart as his long-suffering wife Julie. While that version is not available for public viewing, the 1935 French-language version directed by Fritz Lang and starring Charles Boyer is currently being offered by several home-video warehouses--albeit in an undubbed, unsubtitled print. Boyer plays Liliom, who runs the carousel at a Budapest amusement park. He impulsively quits his job when he falls in love with mill-worker Julie (Madeleine Ozeray). A terrible husband and provider, Liliom panics when he discovers he's about to become a father. He enters into a get-rich-quick robbery scheme with his unsavory pal Alfred (Alcover), but the plan goes awry. Rather than allow himself to be arrested, Liliom kills himself, whereupon his soul is transported via an art-deco express train to the waiting room of Heaven. A celestial judge determines that Liliom will not get his wings until he returns to earth to do one good deed. Liliom materializes before his now-teenaged daughter, and tries to give her a star that he's stolen from heaven; when she panics, he impulsively slaps her. Considering himself a failure, Liliom wearily heads for Purgatory, but a coda shows that his visit has done a world of good for both his widow and his daughter. Liliom was later musicalized by Rodgers & Hammerstein as Carousel.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 11 April, 2011.

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