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List Price: $19.98Price: $13.94 You Save: $6.04 (30%)Prices subject to change.
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301978170
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 630197817X
Label: MGM (Warner)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 76 minutes
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1931
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I was not expecting much when I sat down to watch this movie for the first time. It had received pretty mediocre reviews on this site, but I bought it regardless, simply because of the good price and because I am infatuated with Clark Gable. After watching this movie, I did not understand why people were so unimpressed with it. It is one of the prized movies in my collection.
This film is short and sweet, and gets directly to the point. Basically the plot revolves around Greta and Gable's seemingly hopeless romance, which is pretty standard, but for some reason this movie is not standard. It is great.
Clark is impeccable in this early role. He really held his own and Greta did a good job as well, though it is not amongst her best roles, certainly.
The direction is very interesting and well done. Greta was filmed in a loving, caressing light. The camera really loved her, and this movie shows her off at her prime.
I would highly reccomend ... Read More
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I watched this movie the other night mainly because it starred Clark Gable and Greta Garbo. They're both in there but there weren't many others of note in the cast. This is actually a pretty standard mediocre movie EXCEPT that the director did an excellent job in putting the film together. He couldn't do much with the cast but he did a lot with the camera and subtle suggestion. For example, the film opens with a foundling's birth. We are given just enough information in a short conversation to tell us that mom had a questionable past and that the child wasn't really wanted by her grandparents. We then get a series of silhouette shots of a growing girl. In each scene we get the message that she is overworked and underloved. There are scenes of men who try to take advantage of her as a woman. These scenes are impressively done with enough of an image of lust and fear to make a potent message. We get an understanding of a young woman who was abused every step of her life and we get ... Read More
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There are some stars in Hollywood's history that by their sheer star power and magnetism are always able to transcend inferior material and create memorable work. Greta Garbo was one such performer and in "Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise", she succeeds in making a fairly ordinary storyline (based on an early "racy" novel by David Graham Phillips), great viewing with her convincing performance and commitment to making an incredible set of circumstances more acceptable. Produced in 1931 this early sound film is unique in being the only teaming of MGM legends Greta Garbo and Clark Gable. Despite numerous reports about the pairs mutual dislike for each other and their very different acting styles, they in actual fact team well in this melodrama of one woman's quest for true love in many wrong places. Garbo is most definately the star here but as in most of the eleven roles he performed that year Clark Gable reveals a startling acting presence that matches the more experienced playing by Garbo all ... Read More
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Garbo plays the illegitimate daughter of a brutal farmer (Jean Hersholt); he plans to marry her off to a low-class but wealthy farmer played by Alan Hale. Garbo (as Helga) runs off to escape her fate and hides out in a mountain cabin which belongs to young engineer Rodney Spencer (Gable, natch); they fall in love...The picture wasn't ever considered a box-office or artistic success, but it's a curio for those who would like to witness the unlikely pairing of two legends of the screen when they were young (Garbo was 25 here, Gable was 30). Garbo makes up for a great deal of the film's weaknesses by a clever study in alternating moods, while Gable gives a fairly strong, straightforward portrayal as her lover. Even back in 1931, the picture was considered rather scrappy and unpalatable - yet the acting and personalities of the leads still have the ability to mesmorize, even in a hopelessly hokey plot such as this. Interestingly enough, the book on which the film was based was written in 1917 ... Read More
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A few years back, I was on a Clark Gable kick and went through many of his movies, so naturally, "Susan Lennox" was rented in due course. This is not a winner. Nope, Garbo was too bad to be endured this time, so I had to stop watching and returned to my dinner. You may differ, so view and decide for yourself.
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