Hearts of Humanity / Hotel Continental
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 25, 2008
- Originally Released: 1932
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jean Hersholt, Jackie Searl & J. Farrell MacDonald | |
Performer: | Peggy Shannon, Claudia Dell, Charles Delaney, Lucille La Verne, Richard Wallace, George Humbert & Tom McGuire | |
Directed by | Christy Cabanne | |
Screenwriting by | Edward T. Lowe Jr. | |
Art Direction by | John DuCasse Schulze | |
Produced by | John Clein | |
Director of Photography: | Charles Stumar |
Entertainment Reviews:
Description by OLDIES.com:
Hearts of Humanity, a heartfelt and beautifully acted independent production, was filmed for $30,000 in six days at Hollywood's Tec-Art Studios on Melrose Avenue. Danish-born star Jean Hersholt was a leading screen actor during the 1920s in such memorable masterworks as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Greed, and Don Q - Son of Zorro. After the coming of sound, he brought a dignified presence to such MGM classics as The Mask of Fu Manchu, Dinner at Eight, and Mark of the Vampire. He is best remembered for his role as Grandfather in Heidi (1937) and for his starring performances in a series of six Dr. Christian films (1939-1941).
Starring Jean Hersholt, Claudia Dell, Jackie Searle, J. Farrell MacDonald; Directed By Christy Cabanne.
Hotel Continental (1932): Paroled from a five-year prison stretch, Jim Bennett returns to the scene of the crime: the soon-to-be-demolished Hotel Continental. This is where the suave thief stashed his stolen loot, and he plans on retrieving it during a fancy farewell party on the eve of the hotel's demolition. Unfortunately, two gangsters are in pursuit of the amiable swindler, intent on appropriating the cash. They use beautiful Ruth Carleton as bait to snare their target, and Bennett falls for her in a big way. His sincerity prompts the femme fatale to reconsider the scheme, but her bosses threaten to kill Bennett if she pulls out of the job.
Released seven months before Grand Hotel, this classy independent comedy thriller boasts impressive production values and a colorful cast that includes Birth of a Nation star Henry B. Walthall. Co-star Theodore von Eltz was previously a dashing romantic lead in silent films and later made colorful cameos in Topper, Sergeant York, and The Big Sleep.
Starring Peggy Shannon, Theodore Von Eltz, Alan Mowbray, Henry B. Walthall; Directed By Christy Cabanne.
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Movie Lovers' Ratings & Reviews:
Based on 4 ratings.
Two films for the price of one.
"Hearts of Humanity" will definitely tug
at the heart strings with Jean Hersholt
as a kindly second hand goods trader who,
even though his own son is turning out a
disappointment, takes on little Shandy, son
of the local policeman who is killed foiling a
robbery. Jackie Searle may have excelled in
playing brats but here he is the little boy
who lights up old Sol's life and tries to turn
Joey's life around for the better.
For something completely different, "Hotel
Continental" was released 6 months before
the classic "Grand Hotel" but has a very
similar plotline, concerning a jewel thief
(Theodore von Eltz) returning to the hotel
on the last night before it is to be demolished
(who knows why, it looks as though it is doing
a thriving business)!!! He then meets beautiful
Peggy Shannon and she almost convinces him
to go straight - but she has a few secrets as
well. Both just excellent films that will have
an appeal for everyone.
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