{"id":31528,"date":"2013-05-20T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31528"},"modified":"2022-06-20T20:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T03:37:37","slug":"what-price-glory-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31528","title":{"rendered":"What Price Glory (1926)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s something rotten about a world that&#8217;s got to be wet down every thirty years with the blood of boys like those.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Poster-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Poster-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Poster-96x128.jpg 96w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Poster.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo rivalrous Marines &#8212; Sgt. Quirt (Edmund Lowe) and Captain Flagg (Victor McLaglen) &#8212; compete for the affections of a beautiful French girl (Dolores del Rio) on the eve of World War I.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dolores Del Rio Films<\/li>\n<li>Love Triangle<\/li>\n<li>Play Adaptation<\/li>\n<li>Raoul Walsh Films<\/li>\n<li>Rivalry<\/li>\n<li>Silent Films<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers<\/li>\n<li>Victor McLaglen Films<\/li>\n<li>World War I Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nRaoul Walsh directed this first cinematic adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/What_Price_Glory%3F_%28play%29\">Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings&#8217; play<\/a>, which was filmed again in 1952 by John Ford with James Cagney in the lead. Perhaps best known as the silent film which rewards careful lip-readers with evidence of spoken profanity not indicated on the title cards themselves (!), it tells an overly simplistic tale of macho rivalry (Lowe and McLaglen&#8217;s tussle over del Rio is preceded by similar conflicts with other women) set against the backdrop of World War I. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s not really enough to the story or the characters to sustain modern viewers&#8217; interest, and the humor comes across as overly broad. While the battle scenes are impressively shot, film fanatics hoping to see a more engaging treatment of World War I in a silent film would be better off watching King Vidor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8788\"><em>The Big Parade<\/em> (1925)<\/a> or William Wellman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31563\"><em>Wings<\/em> (1927)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The powerfully filmed wartime sequences<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Wartime.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Wartime.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Wartime.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Wartime-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/What-Price-Glory-Wartime-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it will likely be of interest to fans of Walsh&#8217;s work.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0017540\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/502729\/what-price-glory#articles-reviews?articleId=456045\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/silent-volume.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/what-price-glory-1926.html\">Silent Volume Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmovie.com\/movie\/what-price-glory-v116427\">All Movie Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\/chicago\/what-price-glory\/Film?oid=1061643\">Chicago Reader Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s something rotten about a world that&#8217;s got to be wet down every thirty years with the blood of boys like those.&#8221; Synopsis: Two rivalrous Marines &#8212; Sgt. Quirt (Edmund Lowe) and Captain Flagg (Victor McLaglen) &#8212; compete for the affections of a beautiful French girl (Dolores del Rio) on the eve of World War I. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Dolores Del Rio Films Love Triangle Play Adaptation Raoul Walsh Films Rivalry Silent Films Soldiers Victor McLaglen Films World&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31528\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31528"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84955,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31528\/revisions\/84955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}