The Man and the Moment
The Man and the Moment | |
---|---|
![]() Newspaper advertisement | |
Directed by | George Fitzmaurice |
Written by | Agnes Christine Johnston Paul Perez |
Based on | story by Elinor Glyn |
Produced by | Richard A. Rowland |
Starring | Billie Dove |
Cinematography | Sol Polito |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
Release date |
|
Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Man and the Moment is a formerly lost[1] 1929 part-talkie romantic comedy film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Billie Dove. The film is mainly a silent film, with talking sequences as well as a synchronized music score and sound effects by the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. In the restored print, many scenes feature intertitles shown immediately after the spoken dialogue conveying the same words. Title cards at the beginning of the restored print explain that the visuals for the talking sequences came from a dupe internegative that was distributed in some territories in silent form; the intertitles were left in the sequences during the restoration to maintain synchronization with the Vitaphone soundtrack, but were not originally part of the film. The story is from a 1914 novel by Elinor Glyn, the famous novelist. The film was produced by Richard A. Rowland and released by First National Pictures. A British silent film had been film of the same story in 1918.[2][3]
Plot[]
Two young people get married for the wrong reasons, and after being chased for a day, they decide they belong together.
Cast[]
- Billie Dove as Joan
- Rod La Rocque as Michel
- Gwen Lee as Viola
- Robert Schable as Skippy
- Charles Sellon as Joan's Guardian
- George Bunny as Butler
Preservation[]
A restored and complete version of the film was screened July 4, 2015 at the Il cinema ritrovato festival in Bologna, Italy.[4] The film was released on DVD by Warner Home Video in 2016.
See also[]
- The Man and the Moment (1918)
- Mad Hour (1928)
References[]
External links[]
- The Man and the Moment at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- DVD review of the recently restored The Man and the Moment
- 1929 films
- English-language films
- 1929 romantic comedy films
- American romantic comedy films
- American films
- American silent feature films
- Films directed by George Fitzmaurice
- Films based on British novels
- Films about weddings
- American black-and-white films
- American remakes of British films
- First National Pictures films
- 1920s rediscovered films
- Rediscovered American films
- 1920s romantic comedy film stubs
- Silent film stubs