Gagman, I have that very same
Lucky Star taped on 1994 on French TV. It didn't look as if any reel was missing.
Today, I have been very pleased to discover on a big screen F.W. Murnau's
City Girl (1929) with Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. After their sizzling partnership in Borzage's
The River, they are together again for this superb Murnau.
Kate (M. Duncan) is waitress in Chicago where she meets the very shy lem (C. Farrell) who came to the city to sell the wheat crop for his overbearing father. They get married quickly and go back together to the family farm in Minnesota. The father (Ernest Torrence) is furious and slaps Kate's face.....
Murnau examined the life of country vs city people. Ernest Torrence's character is brilliantly delineated: bible reading and a complete miser regarding his wheat crop. Mary Duncan offers a fantastic contrast to the shy Farrell: she just smoulders. Murnau offers another masterpiece after
Sunrise and
4 Devils. Why is this film not on DVD ????