Upstream (1927)

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  • UPSTREAM
    aka Footlight Glamour


    DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD
    FOX FILM CORPORATION



    Information from IMDb


    Plot Summary
    A "backstage drama",the movie is about a Shakespearean
    actor and a woman from a knife-throwing act.
    The main line of the plot concerns the vain, talent-challenged scion of a well-known
    theatrical family who is summoned to London, for his name only, to play Hamlet,
    a role for which he is utterly unprepared. But the wise counsel of an aged,
    nostalgic tragedian, invoking and imparting the great tradition of Shakespearean performance,
    stands the young ham in good stead, and he returns to New York triumphant,
    contemptuous, and conceited, only to receive his comeuppance.


    Read more
    New Yorker


    Full Cast
    Nancy Nash ... Gertie Ryan
    Earle Foxe ... Eric Brasingham
    Grant Withers ... Juan Rodriguez aka Jack La Velle
    Lydia Yeamans Titus ... Miss Hattie Breckenbridge Peyton
    Raymond Hitchcock ... Star Boarder
    Emile Chautard ... Campbell Mandare
    Ted McNamara ... Callahan and Callahan
    Sammy Cohen ... Callahan and Callahan
    Judy King ... Sister Team
    Lillian Worth ... Sister Team
    Jane Winton ... Soubrette
    Harry A. Bailey ... Gus Hoffman (as Harry Bailey)
    Francis Ford ... Juggler
    Ely Reynolds ... Deerfoot
    Sammy Blum ... Eric's Valet (uncredited)
    Carrie Daumery ... Theatre Audience Spectator (uncredited)
    Anita Garvin ... Theatre Audience Spectator (uncredited)
    Margaret Mann ... Theatre Audience Spectator (uncredited)


    Writing Credits
    Randall Faye (as Randall H. Faye)
    Wallace Smith story "The Snake's Wife"


    Cinematography
    Charles G. Clarke


    Trivia
    Previous thought lost, Upstream was found in 2010 stored in a New Zealand film archive. It was shipped to the U.S. for preservation, funded by original production company 20th Century Fox.


    This was the opening film for the
    16th San Francisco Silent Film Festival in 2011.

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

    Edited once, last by ethanedwards ().

  • Upstream is a 1927 silent comedy film.


    The film was considered to be a lost film,
    but in 2009 it was discovered in the New Zealand Film Archive.
    It is considered the first Ford film to show some influence of German director F. W. Murnau,
    who began working at Fox Studios in 1926. From Murnau,
    Ford learned how to use forced perspectives and chiaroscuro lighting,
    which the American director then integrated into his own more naturalistic
    and direct filmmaking style.


    It’s one of only about a dozen films that survive today from Ford’s silent period,
    which numbered over 60 titles.


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    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England