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Irene Dunne ... Sally Watterson
Randolph Scott ... Peter Cortlandt
Dorothy Lamour ... Molly Fuller
Elizabeth Patterson ... Grandma Cortlandt
Raymond Walburn ... Doc Watterson
Charles Bickford ... Red Scanlon
Akim Tamiroff ... Joe Varese
Ben Blue ... Zeke
William Frawley ... Mac
Alan Hale ... Walt Brennan
Irving Pichel ... Mr. Stark
High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy melodrama. Irene Dunne plays an itinerant circus performer who marries oilman Randolph Scott. The couple heads to Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859, where Scott is among the lucky prospectors who strikes oil. With no train service to the refineries, the townsfolk are obliged to build a pipeline, which is accomplished to the accompaniment of several rousing musical numbers by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. The villainous element is represented by Alan Hale, who does his best to block the project to serve his own evil ends. Dunne's old circus friends come to the rescue with a herd of trained elephants!The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with Laura Hope Crews recreating her stage role as a widowed women a bit too in love with her sons. Ms. Crews plays the outwardly selfless mother of Joel McCrea and Eric Linden; Irene Dunne and Frances Dee play the younger women in the lives of the two sons. Irene, an established physician, is quick to see that Ms. Crews' supposed loving relationship with her sons is an obsessive power trip, and that Mother is actually an emasculating monster who can't stand to have any other woman come between her and her offspring. Crews' steamroller tactics lead Frances Dee to attempt suicide, which results in the breakup of her relationship with Linden. Dunne, who loves McCrea and insists he stand on his own feet, but can he? |
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$12.00 (Fixed) US Dollars |
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Always in stock. |
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Encino, CA [United States] |
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more than 1 month ago |
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