Trailer for The Patriot (Ernst Lubitsch, 1928)

[myrnaloyisdope]

Hi all, I just uploaded the trailer for Lubitsch's lost film The Patriot to youtube, for anyone who might be interested:

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[drednm]

Thanks for posting this clip.... A famous lost film and it looks quite good. Emil Jannings was an amazing silent actor. Since The Patriot had talking sequences, I wonder who did the talking since Jannings was famous for not speaking English..... Interesting also that it was Lewis Stone who won an Oscar nomination for this film, not Jannings.

[MissGoddess]

Thank you so much, MLID!!! I'm wild to see everything Lubitsch directed,
and keep hoping this "lost" film will turn up one day.

[CoffeeDan]

Another tantalizing glimpse at a lost film -- Ernst Lubitsch really knew how to use the moving camera. But for all its critical acclaim, THE PATRIOT was one of the worst box-office flops of 1928. Could that be one reason why it's lost?

[myrnaloyisdope]

Well, my understanding is that Paramount was among the very worst studios at preserving their silents, so there are missing Lubitsch's, Wellman's, De Mille's, von Sternberg's, not to mention a bunch of Clara Bow films. I realize every studio was neglectful, but Paramount by all accounts was among the worst.

[Ann Harding]

Just a quick note. The Patriot trailer has been released on DVD within the box More Treasures from American Film Archives together with a few other lost films trailers: In the Days of Daniel Boone, The Silent Flyer, The American Venus, The Great Gatsby and Beau Sabreur.

[drednm]

I thought The American Venus supposedly exists somewhere.....

[Gagman 66]

Apparently the Trailer's at the time, were not subject to the same copyright restrictions as the films themselves? This is something I didn't know until just last night.

"Downhearted and Remorseful"