Followed by "Blind Husbands(1919)"
If you haven't seen this movie, please watch it!
What are your favorites before 1920?
It's really hilarious, isn't it? and I love the soundtrack. I giggle listening to it without even watching the film.
I still prefer Pola Negri in The Wildcat, but The Oyster Princess is a shorter film and good to put on when you need a laugh.
With Chaplin's Shoulder Arms it's the funniest feature-length pre-1920 film I've seen.
shareThe third act with the foxtrot sequence (and Curt Bois - who nearly 70 years later had a great role in "Wings of Desire" - as the conductor) is absolutely hilarious.
I just wonder why there are at the moment 135 "1"-votes for this great film - and without exception by Americans? What´s in this film that could upset Americans?
American here. The film's clearly too witty for us.
shareI love Lubitsch and really like this film, but there's other pre-1920 features I'd definitely put above it, such as the 1911 Italian film "Dante's Inferno", which has absolutely incredible imagery by any era's standards. And Dreyer's "The President" is definitely a better film, in my opinion. Also maybe Olcott's "From the Manger to the Cross". But "The Oyster Princess" is in the conversation, definitely. It certainly blows out of the water most of the pre-1920 features I've seen, such as Lang's "Harakiri", Lang's "The Spiders, Part I: The Golden Sea", Sennett's "Tillie's Punctured Romance", Ford's "Straight Shooting", Ford's "Bucking Broadway", Griffith's "Judith of Bethulia", Griffith's "Home Sweet Home", off the top of my head.
shareThis was hilarious. I watched it last night for the first time in my life and loved it. Everyone was terrific, especially the wonderful Ossi Oswalda. OMG, she has to be seen to be believed! Hilarious, sassy, one of a kind.
Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop
Lubitsch, what a genius.
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