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Can anyone read lips?

posted 12 years ago by vinidici
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One of the great legends of film lore is that co-stars Edmond Lowe and Victor McClaglen, as Quirt and Flagg, respectively, and always in competition over the same women, hurled profanities at each other; it was said that lip readers who saw this film in 1926 were incensed and sent letters of outrage to Fox Studios.

Anyone know what profanities were used? If anyone can answer, I suggest that euphemisms or *'s in place of vowels be utilized. (I can't help myself, I'm in a lowest common denominator frame of mind, at the moment, and just have that sordid urge to know exactly what these two guys are saying to each other that the silent film dialogue titles aren't telling us!)

And people think there were no profanities in Hollywood productions until 1939, when Clark Gable exits in the final scene of "Gone With the Wind" with the famed "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" line!

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[–] brandon-caplan 11 years ago

I've been wondering this myself. I haven't seen the movie, but I believe that "son of a bitch" was, er, "heard."

[–] Peterlh 8 years ago

As the other poster mentioned one of the actors at one point said "son of a bitch", since this wasn't caught by the censors it remained in the final print of the film.