{"id":72683,"date":"2021-06-08T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=72683"},"modified":"2021-06-08T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:14:08","slug":"virginian-the-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=72683","title":{"rendered":"Virginian, The (1929)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Out here, stealin&#8217;s about the lowest, the meanest thing a man can do.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Poster-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-72684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Poster-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Poster-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Poster-85x128.png 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Poster-180x270.png 180w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Poster.png 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA cowboy (Gary Cooper) engaged to a local school marm (Mary Brian) must decide how to handle the fact that his good friend (Richard Arlen) is a cattle rustler working in cahoots with a leader named Trampas (Walter Huston).\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>Cowboys <\/li>\n<li>Gary Cooper Films<\/li>\n<li>Victor Fleming Films<\/li>\n<li>Walter Huston Films<\/li>\n<li>Westerns <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s always interesting reading reviews of the first talkies to emerge on screen &#8212; in this case, Victor Fleming&#8217;s adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Virginian_(novel)\">Owen Wister&#8217;s 1902 novel<\/a>. Mordaunt Hall of <em>The New York Times<\/em> starts off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1929\/12\/23\/archives\/the-screen-love-and-a-little-war-mr-wisters-famous-novel.html\">his review<\/a> by noting that &#8220;the voices are nicely modulated and the acting pleasingly restrained&#8221;, and later adds that &#8220;it is evident that the calling upon players to deliver lines causes them to give firm, understanding interpretations of their respective roles, far more so than they ordinarily would do in a silent film.&#8221; These days, <em>The Virginian<\/em> comes across as creaky but reasonably effective (other than concluding with an unsatisfying resolution). Cooper is fine in his breakthrough role, and Brian &#8212; once dubbed &#8220;The Sweetest Girl in Pictures&#8221;, and perhaps best known for her role in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=43243\"><em>The Front Page<\/em> (1931)<\/a> &#8212; is appropriately plaintive yet feisty as his love interest. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gary Cooper in an early role<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Cooper.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Cooper.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Cooper.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Cooper-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Cooper-128x99.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Virginian-Cooper-348x270.png 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; you can skip this one unless you&#8217;re curious to see Cooper in his first talkie. Listed as a film with Historical Importance in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0020556\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1929\/12\/23\/archives\/the-screen-love-and-a-little-war-mr-wisters-famous-novel.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/virg.html\">FilmSite Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Out here, stealin&#8217;s about the lowest, the meanest thing a man can do.&#8221; Synopsis: A cowboy (Gary Cooper) engaged to a local school marm (Mary Brian) must decide how to handle the fact that his good friend (Richard Arlen) is a cattle rustler working in cahoots with a leader named Trampas (Walter Huston). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Cowboys Gary Cooper Films Victor Fleming Films Walter Huston Films Westerns Review: It&#8217;s always interesting reading reviews of the first talkies to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=72683\"> 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-72683","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\/72683","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=72683"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72691,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72683\/revisions\/72691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}