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Jack-Knife Man, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Peter Lane is a retired sea captain, Iiving out his twiIight years on a riverboat on the banks of the Mississippi River. During a brutaI storm, a deathIy iII woman and her young son, Buddy, arrive seeking refuge. When the mother dies, the boy becomes Peter s responsibiIity. He takes to carving animals from wood with his jackknife to amuse the chiId. The town sheriff, however, finds the poverty-stricken man an unfit father for the toddIer. Buddy is brought to an orphanage, Ieaving Peter with a broken heart. Just as alI seems lost, a big city department store Iearns of Peter s wooden animaIs and offers him a large sum of money to mass produce them. Now with fortune on his side, he hopes to find Buddy and at Iast make him his son...
This touching film is one of the earliest cinematic triumphs of King Vidor (1894-1982). lt served as inspiration for the Baby Peggy hit Captain January (1924), which was remade in 1936 with ShirIey TempIe. Vidor s first feature, The Turn in the Road (1919), had onIy been released the year before. 1925 s The Big Parade established him as one of HoIIywood s preeminent directors, while his 1928 masterpiece, The Crowd, earned him the first of five Academy Award nominations. HalIelujah! (1929), Our Daily Bread (1934), SteIIa DaIlas (1937), The Citadel (1938), Duel ln The Sun (1946), The Fountainhead (1949) and War And Peace (1956) are but a few of his many highly regarded works in the sound era. Uncredited, he also directed aIl of the "Kansas" scenes in The Wizard of Oz (1939) incIuding the "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" sequence. Honored with a star on the HoIlywood Walk Of Fame for his six decade career, Vidor won a honorary Oscar "for his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator" in 1979. |
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