I'm watching it now and it has REALLY good production values for an old 1920's film, not to mention the acting is terrific.
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"What were you hoping to prove? That, deep down, everyone's as ugly as you?"
--Batman to Joker in "The Dark Knight"
I saw this on TCM earlier tonight and think it's a magnificent, gripping movie. Certain things about it (certain "black" characters looking decidedly white, or others obviously being white actors in blackface) take some getting used to, though once I did, I was totally on board.
shareActually about the whole black characters looking white thing, that was pretty close to the way the characters were written in the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel. I read it and the characters of George, Eliza, and Harry are all very light-skinned slaves able to pass for white.
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--Batman to Joker in "The Dark Knight"
I watched it for the first time tonight. I guess it was well done for the time. All of the acting was good. The story moved along well. Would I watch it again? Yes, I would.
shareI re-watched this movie when it aired on TCM again the other early a.m. and found myself every bit as "in" to it as I had been the first time I saw it the other year. Very good movie, impressively and compelling done.
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Hahaha, way to provoke. Including 'likes' is the icing on the cake. Could be a joke sure, then these other people, out of their minds, agree. Well, go on living a fantasy, that United States slavery wasn't the most degrading, painful, insane thing anyone's ever done to anyone. The point of this movie is to forget that.
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