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Really good! Would love to view entire series because of this episode alone!
Because I watched the new release by Kino Lorber of the gorgeous Blu-Ray edition of three of Reginald Denny's 1920's comedies, and now have been trying to catch many other of Denny's 1920's films, last night I watched "The Leather Pushers: Round Two: With This Ring I Thee Fed!" (1922), one of the films in three series of six films each, 18 two-reel films, that are about "Kid Roberts", though this is not a serial, per se. Each of the two-reelers fairly well stand up on their own, and in the first series of six, at least, one of the characters, played by Hayden Stevenson, breaks the fourth wall and tells us, the audience, either what has happened in a prior film, or sums up something that has occurred in the two-reeler we're watching, or just comments on Denny in a snappy manner - not sure about the next two series of six. There followed a fourth series of six with Billy Sullivan playing the part Denny had essayed in the first three series of six each. These were immensely popular two-reelers, and they led to Denny's being cast in features - and the rest is film history.
Kevin Brownlow devoted Chapter 41 of The Parade's Gone By to Reginald Denny. He says that when he first met Denny to interview him Denny had not seen one of his silents in twenty years. So - Brownlow showed Denny several of his early films, one of them a chapter of "The Leather Pushers". Brownlow calls the performance "...likeable but rather flat; what humour there was came from other members of the cast." It's not known what episode Brownlow showed Denny of "The Leather Pushers", but from what I watched the series was really decent. I won't explain the total meaning of the title of "Round Two" because that would be giving spoilers. Suffice it to say that, what with Denny's prior experience as an established boxer, Denny gives the boxing rounds in the film a genuine pizzazz! They're really good. He was obviously still in very good shape when he did the film, and his time trouping the boards and now doing film had given him the funds to be able to get himself a good set of teeth for the films. He'd had several of them knocked out when he WAS a boxer! The film does, indeed, have its amount of humor, though it's an old-fashioned 20's and 30's sort that's definitely rather old-fashioned for the twenty-first century film goer, but still rather palatable. The serious parts of the film are really well-captured in snappy elements that are well edited and well acted. I really enjoyed this, not realizing the full extent of the episode's content. There's more to it than one might think, based on typical two-reelers of the period. Recommended.
My print is on a ReelClassics DVD release from 2006. On the same DVD is the feature "Dangerous Hours" (1920) with Lloyd Hughes. Quality is only fair to good to sometimes very good, but usually just good. There are some parts that are quite worn with many artifacts. None of this detracts much from the action. Just suck up to the beginning, and you're good to go.
Kevin Brownlow devoted Chapter 41 of The Parade's Gone By to Reginald Denny. He says that when he first met Denny to interview him Denny had not seen one of his silents in twenty years. So - Brownlow showed Denny several of his early films, one of them a chapter of "The Leather Pushers". Brownlow calls the performance "...likeable but rather flat; what humour there was came from other members of the cast." It's not known what episode Brownlow showed Denny of "The Leather Pushers", but from what I watched the series was really decent. I won't explain the total meaning of the title of "Round Two" because that would be giving spoilers. Suffice it to say that, what with Denny's prior experience as an established boxer, Denny gives the boxing rounds in the film a genuine pizzazz! They're really good. He was obviously still in very good shape when he did the film, and his time trouping the boards and now doing film had given him the funds to be able to get himself a good set of teeth for the films. He'd had several of them knocked out when he WAS a boxer! The film does, indeed, have its amount of humor, though it's an old-fashioned 20's and 30's sort that's definitely rather old-fashioned for the twenty-first century film goer, but still rather palatable. The serious parts of the film are really well-captured in snappy elements that are well edited and well acted. I really enjoyed this, not realizing the full extent of the episode's content. There's more to it than one might think, based on typical two-reelers of the period. Recommended.
My print is on a ReelClassics DVD release from 2006. On the same DVD is the feature "Dangerous Hours" (1920) with Lloyd Hughes. Quality is only fair to good to sometimes very good, but usually just good. There are some parts that are quite worn with many artifacts. None of this detracts much from the action. Just suck up to the beginning, and you're good to go.
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- mmipyle
- Sep 28, 2020
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- Runtime23 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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