Wed 7 Oct 2009
A Movie Review by Walter Albert: SHARP SHOOTERS (1928).
Posted by Steve under Films: Drama/Romance , Reviews , Silent films[2] Comments
SHARP SHOOTERS. Fox, 1928. George O’Brien, Lois Moran, Noah Young, Tom Dugan, William Demarest, Gwen Lee, Josef Swickard. Director: John G. Blystone. Shown at Cinecon 40, Hollywood CA, September 2004.
A modest effort in which George O’Brien dallies with a French dance-hall girl (Moran) before he leaves her, protesting eternal love, with his comrades Young and Dugan for their next port in the states.
When Moran finds him, he’s already dallying with another dilly and not too pleased to see her. Young and Dugan, exercising what passes for a moral example, maneuver him into an unwanted marriage.
Then, as you might suspect, anger turns to something much warmer, and the film ends on a very happy note. Demarest is the cad who tries to separate the two.
A nice, undemanding entertainment for the start of the first full day of screenings.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
O’Brien, whose career ran from 1922 to 1964, and was a big time cowboy star in the thirties, was known for his perfect body, and frequently posed in nothing but a posing pouch in the silent days in art studies.
He was a damn good actor too, and a favorite of John Ford who used him in The Iron Horse, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Cheyenne Autumn. His westerns are little gems with more real humor than most, and frequently better and more complex plots than some of his contemporaries films.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
It was quite a while ago on this blog, but I reviewed a George O’Brien movie called Prairie Law (1940) way back here: https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=173
I thought he’d also come up for discussion in some other posts, but no, it looks like I was wrong, or the search feature this blog has doesn’t check into the comments….
I was right, and I had to go to Google to find it. George O’Brien was mentioned a couple of times following another of Walter’s reviews, Unknown Valley (1933), although he wasn’t in it.
Check it out at https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=864