The Big Parade (Blu-ray)
The epic of the American doughboy!
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The Big Parade (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 1, 2013
- Originally Released: 1925
- Label: Turner Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Gilbert & Renée Adorée | |
Performer: | Claire McDowell, Hobart Bosworth, Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, Claire Adams & Tom O'Brien | |
Directed by | King Vidor | |
Edited by | Hugh Wynn | |
Screenwriting by | Laurence Stallings & Harry Behn | |
Composition by | William Axt & David Mendoza | |
Produced by | Irving Thalberg | |
Director of Photography: | John Arnold |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A+ --
The Big Parade (1925) is director/producer King Vidor's most famous, precedent-setting war film from the silent era. It was the first realistic war drama and has served ever since as an archetypal model for all other war films.
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AMC Filmsite
Rating: 4.5/5 --
The Big Parade wasn't just an international hit; it immediately set the standard for Hollywood war movies.
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The Dissolve
Rating: 4.5/5 --
It was strong stuff in 1925 and it remains strong today.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
There is a peculiar delight in sitting through a play in which every dialectic skill is used -- where the aptness of language to express character, emotion, the interplay of thoughts gives one a pure joy.
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The Spectator
Rating: B+ --
King Vidor's popular moving antiwar WWI drama set the tone for how to shoot a war film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
Like All Quiet on the Western Front, The Big Parade gives a comprehensive look at then-modern warfare.
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7M Pictures
Rating: 4/4 --
Masterfully directed by King Vidor, this swings easily between comedy, romance and tragedy without missing a beat, and there are numerous set-pieces of enormous power -- even today, the harrowing battle scenes would rank among the best ever put on film.
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Creative Loafing
Product Description:
King Vidor's harrowing WWI drama was the first realistic war film ever made, and for many years it would be the paradigm for the genre. It stars John Gilbert as Jim Apperson, a charming idler from a wealthy background. When war is declared in 1917, even the phlegmatic layabout is caught up in the public excitement and impulsively enlists in the army, surprising his stern father (Hobart Bosworth). After a whirlwind of basic training, he's off to France with fellow conscripts Bull (Tom O'Brien), a bartender, and Slim (Karl Dane), a riveter. While waiting to be sent to the front, the three kill time with horseplay and practical jokes. One of the jokes leads to a meeting with peasant girl Melisande (Renee Adoree), and she and Jim begin to see each other, but just as they've overcome the language barrier, he's called to the front. The nightmarish reality of trench warfare will permanently alter the young man's life. Adapted from the story WHAT PRICE GLORY by Laurence Stallings, the film that MGM feared would alienate audiences proved to be its most successful until the release of GONE WITH THE WIND. Apart from the scenes of low comedy, the film is as fresh as ever, and in sequences such as Jim's return home, it remains just as devastating as it must have been in 1925.