Sally of the Sawdust
D.W. Griffith's circus comedy.
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DVD-R Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 1925
- Label: Grapevine Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Carol Dempster & W.C. Fields | |
| Performer: | Alfred Lunt & Erville Alderson | |
| Directed by | D.W. Griffith | |
| Screenwriting by | Forrest Halsey | |
| Composition by | Louis Silvers | |
| Produced by | D.W. Griffith |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Griffith stresses the story's melodrama, making Fields an unusually sentimental figure, though the star still manages to showcase some of his juggling routines and even kick a dog.
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Chicago Reader
Its interest would be no more than historical were it not also the movie that launched WC Fields. His show-stopping performance as Eustace McGargle, conman and sideshow juggler, contains the seeds of all his later glories.
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Time Out
Griffith again lays on the mother-sentiment too thickly in places. But, all in all, Sally of the Sawdust is good entertainment.
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The Spectator
Griffith uses the climactic chase to teach editing to Eisenstein in the year of Potemkin
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CinePassion
Rating: 4/5 --
Beyond being a Fields vehicle, it's a showcase for Griffith's direction, using of beautifully pastoral location shooting that gives Sally an almost-luminous glow.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Sally is minor Griffith, but it demonstrates that, whatever the ostensible genre, he remained (and, pace Steven Spielberg, remains) the master manipulator of human emotion.
Village Voice
Just about the most amusing comedy that you will recall this year.
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TIME Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
Circus folk Professor Eustance McGargle and his ward Sally flee the circus after a fracas. However life on the road is hard and McGargle must consider that Sally might have a more secure future with her family. Not revealing the relationship he meets the girl's grandfather, the stern Judge Foster, and decides Sally is better off without them. But fate has something else in mind for this broken family.
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